View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack say he was known for “in the Colony” when speaking to Tobias in Chapter 62?
(a) Planning.
(b) Vengeance.
(c) Authority.
(d) Execution.

2. To what street does Mary Oates walk when she leaves home in Chapter 77?
(a) Cecil Street.
(b) Great Queen Street.
(c) Great Windmill Street.
(d) Chancery Lane.

3. What substance in Mary Britten’s abortion pills “gave all our hands an unpleasant fishy smell” according to Jack in his letter from Chapter 58?
(a) Ergot.
(b) Ermine.
(c) Pennyroyal.
(d) Argot.

4. What novel is Elizabeth Warriner reading in the opening of Chapter 64?
(a) Captain Crumley.
(b) Adam Smith.
(c) Great Expectations.
(d) Castle Rackrent.

5. What doctor does Tobias recall in Wapping that had killed three of his spinster patients and fed their remains to his fox terrier in Chapter 53?
(a) Dr. Hardwick.
(b) Dr. Snipes.
(c) Dr. Smith.
(d) Dr. Grieves.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many hours in bed has Elizabeth suffering in the opening of Chapter 86?

2. Mr. Makepeace describes what historical court case involving an heir in Chapter 79?

3. What kind of boat do Jack and Tobias escape in, in Chapter 70?

4. The narrator states in Chapter 91 that at “the instant Henry Phipps discharged the pistol,” who “died in her bed”?

5. Chapter 74 is comprised of what chapter of Tobias’s book about Jack?

Short Essay Questions

1. What issues regarding money does Tobias deal with in Chapter 50?

2. Where are Jack and Tobias going in Chapters 62-63? What exchange of secrets takes place on the journey?

3. How is the meeting between Jack, Tobias, and the Thief-taker described in Chapter 67?

4. What outcome is revealed for Jack and Mercy Larkin in the denouement of the novel?

5. What exchange takes place between Tobias and Dr. Grieves at Mr. Butler’s house in Chapter 50?

6. What takes place in Tobias’s house in Chapter 82? Where does Jack go when he leaves?

7. Where have Tobias and Jack arrived in the beginning of Chapter 81? What is their objective at this setting?

8. What physical conflict takes place in the climax of the novel in Chapters 88 and 89?

9. What does Jack discover in Tobias’s notebook in Chapters 73 and 74? How does Jack respond?

10. How is Tobias’s son treated in Chapters 52 and 53? What further complications does Tobias encounter in these chapters?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 852 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample