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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Verloc find his wife doing when he returns home immediately following his encounters with Mr. Wurmt and then Mr. Vladimir?
(a) Working in the shop.
(b) Getting ready for bed.
(c) Taking a nap.
(d) Serving dinner.

2. What goal does Mr. Vladimir hope to achieve?
(a) An event that will excite London's privileged upper class.
(b) An event that will excite London's lower working class.
(c) An event that will excite Paris's middle class.
(d) An event that will excite London's middle class.

3. Whom does this story center on?
(a) A devoted husband, his beautiful and young wife, and his brother.
(b) A devoted husband, his beautiful and young wife, and her brother.
(c) A devoted husband, his older wife, and his son from a previous marriage.
(d) A hateful husband, his young and beautiful wife, and her son from a previous marriage.

4. Mr. Vladimir tells Mr. Verloc he reviewed his past reports, that they are inadequate as no action has been taken, and indicates that he views the latter's role toward achieving an explosion to be what?
(a) An agent provocateur, one associating with suspected individuals and pretending to side with them to provoke them into an incriminating deed.
(b) An agent courier, a messenger designated to relay information to an espionage or underground organization.
(c) An agent espionage, one under the employment of a government in the role of spying to gain political information.
(d) An agent emissaire, a representative sent on a special mission, in this instance one of a clandestine nature.

5. In which year does the actual incident on which this novel is based take place?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1948,

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When asked by Ossipon to describe the person who purchased the device, what is the professor's response?

3. What is it that Ossipon wonders about for a brief time subsequent to learning of the Greenwich Park explosion and suspecting who was killed?

4. What does Mr. Vladimir learn about Mr. Verloc that terribly disappoints him?

5. Red Committee member Ossipon expresses what opinion regarding the state of social ills?

(see the answer key)

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