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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the spy named in the title of The Secret Agent?
(a) Mr. Vladimir.
(b) Mr. Wurmt.
(c) Mrs. Verloc.
(d) Mr. Verloc.

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

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

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

5. What route does Red Committee group member Michaelis say is the answer to the current social ills?
(a) Bombing of scientific institutions.
(b) Emotion and riotous action are essential and knowledge is unhelpful.
(c) Patience and action through the arts, sciences, and education.
(d) Maintaining a stable economic status.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Verloc's shop display to draw in customers?

2. How is the professor traveling while amazed at the sense of security those around him feel, unaware they could all be blown up at any time?

3. Where does the professor initially encounter Chief Inspector Heat while the latter is conducting his inspection of the Greenwich Park explosion?

4. Although initially insisting he works independently, the professor eventually confesses that he recently had sold what?

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

(see the answer key)

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