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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 Mr. Verloc attempt to convince his wife of concerning their relationship in their conversation after Heat departs their home?
(a) How they will be able to sell the shop and live freely in the country without further troubles as he has been granted immunity for his testimony.
(b) That he has done everything he could to support her and her family and that should be sufficient.
(c) How deeply in love he is with her and that should be sufficient for now.
(d) How deeply in love he is with her and will do anything to make Winnie's loss up to her.

2. Where does Ossipon encounter the professor on the day of the Greenwich Park bombing?
(a) In a restaurant.
(b) In an underground beer hall.
(c) In a café.
(d) In a dining hall.

3. What is it that the professor views as difficult?
(a) Experimenting.
(b) Constructing.
(c) Buying components.
(d) Selling.

4. What does Heat do when making his incomplete, initial report on the Greenwich Park explosion to the assistant commissioner and he is pressured to open up?
(a) Heat maintains he has no information about Michaelis.
(b) Heat reveals his displeasure with his supervisor and nothing more.
(c) Heat reveals the item he obtained from the coroner's office.
(d) Heat only reveals Mrs. Verloc was on the train from Maze Hill.

5. What is it the professor tells Ossipon he must sometimes do in seeking his goal?
(a) Work various extra jobs to pay for bomb components.
(b) Seek funds from revolutionary groups.
(c) Skip meals for a day or two, as bomb components are expensive.
(d) Rent a very small apartment and scrimp on money.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What goal does Mr. Vladimir hope to achieve?

3. When Mr. Verloc confronts Winnie on the night of Stevies death, what does he say about the death?

4. What is Stevie's reaction when the cab driver starts whipping the horse during the ride to his mother's charity home?

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?

(see the answer key)

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