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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What takes place when the Red Committee discussion at the Verloc residence is finished?
(a) The four members head to the neighborhood beer-hall for a few brews.
(b) The three guest members depart to play billiards while Mr. Verloc straighten his shop.
(c) The four members play cards and enjoy some cigars.
(d) The guest members take their leave, and Mr. Verloc gratefully sees them out.

3. In the morgue, what does Heat find among the yet-to-be-identified remains retrieved from the Greenwich Park bombing scene?
(a) A small portion of a coat of arms emblem from among fragmented jacket pieces.
(b) A collegiate ring with a man's name engraved inside it.
(c) A portion of an address tag from a shredded leather briefcase.
(d) A blue address label on what was once an overcoat.

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

5. Why does Mrs. Verloc's mother wish to move into a charity home?
(a) She dislikes how Mr. Verloc treats Stevie and feels compelled to live elsewhere, but cannot afford to.
(b) She is nearing the end of her life and no longer wants to be a drain on her children.
(c) She feels in the way at the Verloc residence and believes relations between her children and Mr. Verloc will run more smoothly with her living elsewhere.
(d) To ensure while she is still alive that Stevie will be taken care of for the remainder of his life, rather than encounter the issue on her deathbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ossipon's opinion of Stevie?

2. Which phrase best describes Mr. Verloc?

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

4. What is the professor's reply when Ossipon asks if he has heard about the morning bomb explosion in Greenwich Park?

5. Who does the assistant commissioner send a note to before he departs his office for the second time on the evening of the Greenwich Park explosion?

(see the answer key)

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