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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Thief-taker first appears at the Bull Inn to meet with Jack and Tobias, he appears to be what?
(a) An old woman.
(b) A clergyman.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A little boy.

2. What judge does Jack describe as having condemned him as vermin in his letter to Henry in Chapter 59?
(a) Judge Denman.
(b) Judge Anderson.
(c) Judge Liesenhall.
(d) Judge Ross.

3. In Chapter 62, Tobias begins his novel about Jack. In what year does his first chapter open?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1805.

4. What name does Mary recall having been tattooed on Mary Britten’s wrist in Chapter 86?
(a) Silas.
(b) Peter.
(c) Jack.
(d) Tom.

5. The narrator states in Chapter 91 that at “the instant Henry Phipps discharged the pistol,” who “died in her bed”?
(a) “Mercy Larkin.”
(b) “Mary Britten.”
(c) “Lizzie Warriner.”
(d) “Mary Oates.”

6. What doctor does the cabbie take Tobias to see in the beginning of Chapter 52?
(a) Dr. Peterman.
(b) Dr. Grieves.
(c) Dr. Smith.
(d) Dr. Hardwick.

7. How old does Jack say Henry was when he first met him in Chapter 71?
(a) 7.
(b) 10.
(c) 4.
(d) 12.

8. Whom does the Thief-taker say he found “who was taken from her mother’s arms” in Chapter 67?
(a) Mary Oates.
(b) Sarah Smith.
(c) Emily Tudball.
(d) Elizabeth Warriner.

9. By what year does Jack say in his letter that he and his family “ate best brisket, chump chops, rolled roast beef from the butcher’s shop in Upper Street, and Mrs. Britten was the owner of two freehold titles” in Chapter 58?
(a) 1806.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1832.
(d) 1801.

10. How does Jack kill the Thief-taker in Chapter 68?
(a) He slits his throat.
(b) He hits him with an axe.
(c) He shoots him.
(d) He hangs him.

11. Whose assurance does Tobias have that the Thief-taker will receive messages at the Bull, according to the narrator in Chapter 66?
(a) Mr. Pope’s.
(b) Silas Smith’s.
(c) Dr. Eliotson’s.
(d) Sir Spencer Spence’s.

12. What author does Jack say he never heard Silas mention, though his schemes would have met with his approval, in his letter from Chapter 59?
(a) Lord Willington.
(b) Jackson Anders.
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) Charles Dickens.

13. Where had Tobias spent his fourth year at a home for orphaned boys?
(a) Wapping.
(b) Tyburn.
(c) Shropshire.
(d) Whitechapel.

14. Where does Jack encounter Mercy in Chapter 84?
(a) In Mr. Butler’s attic.
(b) In the corner tavern.
(c) In Henry Phipps’s house.
(d) In the St. Jude Cemetery.

15. Henry meets with Mr. Butler and his lawyer in a subaltern of what regiment in Chapter 79?
(a) The 72nd Foot Regiment.
(b) The 63rd Foot Regiment.
(c) The 15th Foot Regiment.
(d) The 57th Foot Regiment.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mr. Buckle mentions the name Jack to Henry in Chapter 73, Henry’s pulse is said to be “racing as it had raced the day he had been delivered at the door of” whose orphanage?

2. Where does Mercy tell Jack she will take him to find Henry at the end of Chapter 84?

3. What weapon does Mr. Butler give to Henry in Chapter 79?

4. It is Jack’s plan to travel down the river until he and Tobias arrive where, in Chapter 71?

5. What was the name on the pill bottles that Mary Britten began selling instead of sausages, according to Jack’s letter in Chapter 58?

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