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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What takes place when the Red Committee discussion at the Verloc residence is finished?
(a) The guest members take their leave, and Mr. Verloc gratefully sees them out.
(b) The four members play cards and enjoy some cigars.
(c) The three guest members depart to play billiards while Mr. Verloc straighten his shop.
(d) The four members head to the neighborhood beer-hall for a few brews.

2. Whom does Mr. Vladimir propose Mr. Verloc enlist in order to accomplish Vladimir's bomb plot?
(a) Former military explosives experts that Mr. Verloc knows.
(b) Other secret agents that Mr. Verloc is acquainted with.
(c) Mr. Verloc's International Red Committee friends.
(d) Mr. Verloc's family.

3. What is Ossipon's reaction upon learning from a paperboy of the Greenwich Park bombing?
(a) He is unconcerned.
(b) He applauded the bomber.
(c) He is quite upset.
(d) He is merely curious.

4. What does the professor tell Ossipon he will do if the police try to arrest him?
(a) Resist arrest and use his concealed pistol to shoot every police officer he can.
(b) Commit suicide by swallowing the poison he carries.
(c) Detonate a bomb killing everyone within fifty feet.
(d) Commit suicide by swallowing the poison he carries.

5. When asked by Ossipon to describe the person who purchased the device, what is the professor's response?
(a) He provides a detailed description.
(b) He provides a vague description.
(c) He provides Ossipon a first name.
(d) He provides Ossipon a surname.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Verloc's response to his first contact with Mr. Vladimir?

2. What is the occupation of Lombroso?

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

4. 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?

5. What is the professor's master skill?

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