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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is it the professor tells Ossipon he must sometimes do in seeking his goal?
(a) Rent a very small apartment and scrimp on money.
(b) Work various extra jobs to pay for bomb components.
(c) Skip meals for a day or two, as bomb components are expensive.
(d) Seek funds from revolutionary groups.

4. Who does the assistant commissioner find outside the Verloc pornography shop on the evening of the Greenwich Park bombing?
(a) A stocky, middle-aged male just leaving
(b) Bright streetlamps offering little place to hide.
(c) A police officer walking past on his beat.
(d) An individual closing the shop up.

5. In chapter 7, what does the assistant commissioner ensure when he returns to his office following his evening meeting with the secretary of state?
(a) That an investigator is assigned to follow Heat.
(b) That Heat has already departed for his home.
(c) That surveillance is placed on the Verloc shop.
(d) That no one can observe the assistant commissioner executing his plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. When asked, what is it that the secretary of state is told that makes it unnecessary to incarcerate the person he is concerned about?

2. What is Ossipon's reaction upon learning from a paperboy of the Greenwich Park bombing?

3. When he does arrive at the home of his wife's friend on the evening of the Greenwich Park blast, whom does the assistant commissioner find is a guest?

4. What concern does the secretary of state express when briefed by the assistant commissioner regarding his suspect of the Greenwich Park explosion?

5. What is the professor's reply when Ossipon asks if he has heard about the morning bomb explosion in Greenwich Park?

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