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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. What does the word “finder” refer to in the narrative?
(a) A thief.
(b) A miner.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) A poor person.

2. When Tobias offers to help Jack with his inner demons in Tobias’s office in Chapter 13, Jack replies, “But what is it to you, Sir? It is my pain after all.” What is Tobias’s response?
(a) “I am a naturalist.”
(b) “I am a humanist.”
(c) “I am likewise afflicted.”
(d) “I am a priest.”

3. What color is Tobias’s daily workbook where he records the words of Jack under hypnosis?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

4. Who are the undertakers in Gibbons Lane that Tobias goes to see in Chapter 34?
(a) Hawke & Sons.
(b) Williams & Sons.
(c) Larkin & Sons.
(d) Foster & Sons.

5. The “doctor” who appears at Mr. Butler’s home in Chapters 37-39 speaks of what being present on Great Queen Street?
(a) Dysentery.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Contagion.
(d) Black Plague.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary Britten’s medicinal sausages are implied to induce what?

2. Of what book written Tobias is it said that Mary Oates “never grasped the point”?

3. What is the name of the young girl orphan that Tobias first views in the morgue in Chapter 34?

4. What does Mercy discover left behind on Mr. Butler’s desk after Jack has left the room at the end of Chapter 42?

5. How many cats did Mr. Buckle inherit along with his house on Great Queen Street?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jack write about his first experience with thievery in his letter to Henry in Chapter 26?

2. How are the emotional and mental states of Mr. Butler’s servants described in Chapters 40-42?

3. Who is the guest of honor at Mr. Buckle’s house in Chapter 7? How is this character described?

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

5. What news does Mr. Butler bring to Mr. Oates when Mr. Oates returns in Chapter 36?

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

7. Where does Tobias travel to in Chapter 34? What does he do at this location?

8. Where do Jack and Percy go in Chapter 22? Why?

9. How is the setting for the novel established in Chapter 1? When and where does the story begin?

10. To whom does Jack write a letter in Chapter 21? What is revealed in this letter?

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