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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the professor's position on the social issues that spurs Mr. Verloc and his Red Committee friends?
(a) He concurs that a static economic state is the most important aspect.
(b) He is not interested in those social concerns.
(c) He also believes that action through the arts, education, and the sciences is key.
(d) He agrees that bombing scientific institutions is essential.

2. When asked, what is it that the secretary of state is told that makes it unnecessary to incarcerate the person he is concerned about?
(a) The subject will not leave their professional responsibilities.
(b) The subject has a spouse who will not leave the country.
(c) The subject has no place to go to without being found and then incurring further problems.
(d) The subject will not leave in hopes of reducing potential punishment.

3. What is the assistant commissioner's action with the secretary of state's private secretary early in the evening of the Greenwich Park bombing?
(a) He arranges a note be sent to his wife regarding his inability that evening to accompany her to the home of her friend for dinner.
(b) He accepts several more cigars and they exchange a few brief comments on a national sporting team before he departs.
(c) He accepts his hat and outer coat that he took off upon arrival, and utters only a quick word of thanks before departing.
(d) They exchange a few brief comments on the case and a current bill concerning fisheries before the assistant commissioner departs.

4. What does Private Secretary Toodles initially assume when the assistant sommissioner arrives unexpectedly soon at the office of the secretary of state?
(a) That Chief Inspector Heat has arrived to report his findings and that things have gone smoothly thus far.
(b) That the assistant commissioner has come to report his findings and that things have gone smoothly thus far.
(c) That the assistant commissioner has arrived to report that something has gone wrong to the secretary of state.
(d) That Chief Inspector Heat has arrived to report problems to the secretary of state.

5. When briefed, what is the secretary of state told was the intended bombing target?
(a) The main square in Greenwich.
(b) The Greenwich Observatory.
(c) The Greenwich tram station.
(d) The area bombed in Greenwich Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which neighborhood does the Assistant Commissioner travel quickly by hansom from Soho on the evening of the Greenwich Park blast?

2. What is the assistant commissioner's response to the secretary of state's decision to have Heat removed from the investigation of the Greenwich Park explosion?

3. What reason does the assistant commissioner give the secretary of state to have Heat removed from the investigation of that explosion?

4. What is it that the professor views as difficult?

5. What does The Professor tell Ossipon he carries in his pocket should the police try to arrest him?

(see the answer key)

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