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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Red Committee group member Yundt view as being cannibalistic?
(a) The constant state of economic conditions.
(b) Failing to provide social aid.
(c) Promoting and stirring riots.
(d) Action through terrorism.

2. What does Mr. Verloc plan to do if he stops receiving monthly paychecks from the embassy?
(a) Mr. Verloc is very worried, as he does not know what to do yet.
(b) Mr. Verloc has begun making plans, but does not have complete faith in them as yet.
(c) Mr. Verloc is unconcerned and has no definite plans at this point.
(d) Mr. Verloc has nothing to worry about because he has plans that he has total confidence in.

3. Why is one member of the Red Committee having so much difficulty communicating with other members of the group?
(a) He is not as well educated as the other members.
(b) He is reluctant to participate in the bombing for fear of imprisonment.
(c) He has a shy personality.
(d) He was confined for so long.

4. How does the assistant commissioner feel in regard to his conversation with Mr. Verloc on the evening of the Greenwich Park explosion?
(a) He is quite satisfied.
(b) He has only partial confidence in Mr. Verloc's honesty.
(c) He is not absolutely confident.
(d) He is not at all satisfied.

5. What is Stevie's reaction when he later talks to the cab driver and learns of his plight in caring for four children and wife while having to do cab work at night?
(a) He becomes quite troubled about the poor, initially stating the police should help the poor, but later appears to have his mind on other things and to have forgotten the matter.
(b) He becomes quite troubled about the poor and their difficulties, and while awaiting a hansom tells Winnie the police should take care of it.
(c) He becomes quite upset about the poor and their difficulties, and enroute to the train tells Winnie it is a matter the police should take care of.
(d) He becomes quite troubled about the poor and their difficulties, and when going to the bus stop tells Winnie the police should take care of it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the professor's position on the social issues that spurs Mr. Verloc and his Red Committee friends?

3. What does Mr. Verloc do following the Red Committee meeting before going to bed?

4. Once having interviewed Mr. Verloc, what is it that the assistant commissioner quickly stresses to the secretary of state that he learned during his investigation regarding the Greenwich Park bombing?

5. Regarding Stevie wandering away, what does Mrs. Verloc assure her husband?

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