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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Vladimir learn about Mr. Verloc that terribly disappoints him?
(a) Mr. Verloc is having an affair with a bank clerk.
(b) Mr. Verloc is married.
(c) Mr. Verloc is losing money running his pornography business.
(d) Mr. Verloc's marriage is not permanent.

2. What does the hand of the professor tighten upon as he encounters Heat for the first time?
(a) A knife.
(b) A bomb detonator.
(c) Poison.
(d) A pistol.

3. Which member of the Red Committee expresses his opinion that Stevie is capable of becoming a criminal as he views her sibling as a degenerate?
(a) Yundt.
(b) Michaelis.
(c) Ossipon.
(d) Mr. Verloc.

4. What is the assistant commissioner's concern if they were to link Michaelis to the Greenwich Park bombing?
(a) The reputation of Baron Stott-Wartenheim's wife would suffer irreparable damage, and the assistant commissioner would never be forgiven.
(b) The reputation of Mrs. Verloc's mother would suffer irreparable damage, and she would never forgive the assistant commissioner.
(c) The reputation of Mrs. Verloc would suffer irreparable damage, and she would never forgive the assistant commissioner.
(d) The reputation of Michaelis' patroness would suffer irreparable damage, and the lady would never forgive the assistant commissioner.

5. What two things did Heat learn several months subsequent to his first encountering Mr. Verloc, when Heat again saw Mr. Verloc and the latter was followed?
(a) Mr. Verloc was Austrian and married to a woman seven years his senior.
(b) Mr. Verloc was a secret agent who lived in an affluent neighborhood.
(c) Mr. Verloc was both a spy and an explosives expert.
(d) Mr. Adolf Verloc's name and that he had gotten married that day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in Mr. Verloc's residence does the meeting of the International Red Committee take place?

2. Why is one member of the Red Committee having so much difficulty communicating with other members of the group?

3. Who did Heat personally assure the month prior to the Greenwich Park explosion that no terrorist acts would occur anytime soon because Heat is watching every known terrorist?

4. What are the Red Committee members doing during their meeting?

5. Who is the spy named in the title of The Secret Agent?

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