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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jack say he and his adopted family moved after the summer of 1801?
(a) Islington.
(b) Buckingham Palace.
(c) Whitechapel.
(d) Wapping.

2. What does Jack do with Mercy when she encounters him in the basement in Chapter 41?
(a) He hits her on the head with a lantern.
(b) He lets her leave the house.
(c) He locks her in her room.
(d) He rapes her.

3. What does Edward Constable define in Chapter 38 as someone who is “rich and has no manners”?
(a) An eccentric.
(b) A snob.
(c) A debutante.
(d) An intellectual.

4. Tobias tells the guests at the dinner party in Chapter 7 that the cerebrum “is a vessel that never” what?
(a) “Fluctuates.”
(b) “Wavers.”
(c) “Leaks.”
(d) “Lies.”

5. What location does Constable tell Jack he mentioned while under hypnosis in Chapter 8?
(a) Wapping.
(b) Maxwell.
(c) Borough.
(d) Tyburn.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many gentlemen is Miss Mott cooking dinner in the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. Who are the undertakers in Gibbons Lane that Tobias goes to see in Chapter 34?

3. The “doctor” who appears at Mr. Butler’s home in Chapters 37-39 speaks of what being present on Great Queen Street?

4. How many “errands” does Jack say he and his companion did for Silas in the summer of 1801 in his letter from Chapter 43?

5. What weapon does Jack carry as he goes to the door of Mr. Butler’s study in Chapter 42?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes the confrontation between Jack and Percy Butler in Chapter 17?

2. What conversation does Mercy overhear between Mr. Buckle and Mr. Makepeace in Chapter 33?

3. How is the study of Tobias described in Chapter 13? What eccentricities fill his study?

4. What does Jack do after the departure of the visitor in Mr. Butler’s home in Chapter 40?

5. How is Mercy’s childhood described in Chapter 19? How did Mercy come to meet Mr. Butler?

6. What deal is made between Jack and Tobias in Chapter 13?

7. What happens when Edward Constable confronts Henry in Chapter 45?

8. Where does Jack fall asleep in Chapter 12? Who finds him?

9. What does the reader learn about the relationship between Mr. Butler and Mercy in Chapter 30? What does Jack reveal to Mr. Butler in this chapter?

10. What does Jack do on Great Queen Street in Chapter 2? Who is he mistaken for?

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