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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Heat annoyed at having to report to his supervisors?
(a) He resents that he does the work, yet they will get the credit.
(b) He is rushed for time and does not like to submit to them.
(c) Heat received no aid from them to reach his current position and he resents they no longer directly investigate.
(d) He wants to be left alone, but needs some assistance nonetheless.

2. As Ossipon is a guest in the professor's residence, while the latter wears his worn tweed suit, what sort of footwear is the perfect anarchist changing from and into?
(a) Slippers into shoes.
(b) Slippers into boots.
(c) Socks into boots.
(d) Socks into shoes.

3. When describing the professor's residence, the author depicts what as necessary for the eye to focus upon due to its size when entering the room?
(a) A lone picture of a sailing ship in a storm at sea hanging in the center of the room.
(b) An enormous face on a grandfather clock standing in the corner.
(c) A cupboard with glass doors in which china plates from the Far East are displayed.
(d) An enormous iron padlock attached to a cupboard door.

4. What does Heat tell the assistant commissioner that the coroner suspects regarding the fatality at the Greenwich Park explosion?
(a) That the person killed is the thinner, dark-haired male and the other individual left the scene prior to the explosion.
(b) That the person killed is the older, stocky male and the other individual left the scene prior to the explosion.
(c) That the person killed is the fair-haired female and the other individual left the scene prior to the explosion.
(d) That the person killed is the fair-haired male and the other individual left the scene prior to the explosion.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When asked, what is it that the secretary of state is told that makes it unnecessary to incarcerate the person he is concerned about?

3. Where is Mr. Verloc's shop located?

4. What is the assistant commissioner's action with the secretary of state's private secretary early in the evening of the Greenwich Park bombing?

5. What is Stevie's reaction upon hearing the Red Committee discussion that took place in the Verloc residence regarding social reform?

(see the answer key)

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