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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Stevie extreme difficulty in maintaining a job?
(a) Stevie is lazy and often shows up late for work.
(b) Stevie is unable to complete designated tasks
(c) Other people's view of Stevie.
(d) Stevie is defiant and refuses to follow directions.

2. What is the professor's master skill?
(a) Constructing bombs.
(b) Painting pictures.
(c) Preparing corpses.
(d) Assisting at a college library.

3. What does Mr. Verloc's shop display to draw in customers?
(a) An extensive menu.
(b) Magazines and pictures.
(c) A variety of beer mugs with logos.
(d) A list of prices for various haircuts and trimmings.

4. 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 also believes that action through the arts, education, and the sciences is key.
(c) He agrees that bombing scientific institutions is essential.
(d) He is not interested in those social concerns.

5. How do The Professor and Ossipon part on the day of the Greenwich Park explosion?
(a) Ossipon follows the professor outside but finds him gone.
(b) Ossipon leaves the professor alone inside.
(c) Ossipon leaves the professor inside with another Red Committee member.
(d) Ossipon and the professor depart side-by-side.

Short Answer Questions

1. Following the Red Committee meeting, what is Mr. Verloc's opinion regarding his earlier meeting with Mr. Vladimir?

2. 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?

3. What are the items usually sold when young men come in the shop for their first time and find Winnie at the counter?

4. How does Mr. Verloc feel about the opinions expressed by his friends during their Red Committee meeting at his home?

5. The Secret Agent is a novel centered on the attempt in 1894 to destroy what?

(see the answer key)

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