1. Red Committee member Ossipon expresses what opinion regarding the state of social ills?
(a) Emotion, not education, is the answer, and action needs to be taken.
(b) Constant financial undermining of the poor is the answer.
(c) World war, not peace, is the answer, and the European Alliance Treaty Organization is useless.
(d) Agitation in Third World nations is an aid.

2. Following the meeting of Mr. Verloc with his Red Committee friends, what does Mrs. Verloc do?
(a) She talks her husband into bed.
(b) She goes to bed and finds Mr. Verloc already asleep.
(c) She goes to bed and discovers Mr. Verloc wants to be distracted by her affection.
(d) She sits in the bedroom until Stevie falls asleep.

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

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 espionage, one under the employment of a government in the role of spying to gain political information.
(b) An agent courier, a messenger designated to relay information to an espionage or underground organization.
(c) An agent emissaire, a representative sent on a special mission, in this instance one of a clandestine nature.
(d) An agent provocateur, one associating with suspected individuals and pretending to side with them to provoke them into an incriminating deed.

5. The Secret Agent is a novel centered on the attempt in 1894 to destroy what?
(a) Trafalgar Square.
(b) The London Bridge.
(c) The Greenwich Observatory.
(d) Buckingham Palace.