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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. Verloc feel about the opinions expressed by his friends during their Red Committee meeting at his home?
(a) He agrees with Michaelis.
(b) He is unconcerned.
(c) He is disappointed.
(d) He is in concurrence with virtually all of them.

2. 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?
(a) Mr. Verloc was a secret agent who lived in an affluent neighborhood.
(b) Mr. Adolf Verloc's name and that he had gotten married that day.
(c) Mr. Verloc was both a spy and an explosives expert.
(d) Mr. Verloc was Austrian and married to a woman seven years his senior.

3. What is Mr. Verloc's initial response to his wife's request concerning Stevie, in Chapter 9?
(a) Although his wife has not made such a request previously, he is not surprised now that her mother has left.
(b) He is not surprised, as his wife has made such requests several times before.
(c) He is surprised, as his wife has never made such a request previously.
(d) While she has made no such request before, his wife's asking now is no surprise given her emotions lately.

4. Why is one member of the Red Committee having so much difficulty communicating with other members of the group?
(a) He was confined for so long.
(b) He is not as well educated as the other members.
(c) He is reluctant to participate in the bombing for fear of imprisonment.
(d) He has a shy personality.

5. When asked, what is it that the secretary of state is told that makes it unnecessary to incarcerate the person he is concerned about?
(a) The subject has a spouse who will not leave the country.
(b) The subject has no place to go to without being found and then incurring further problems.
(c) The subject will not leave in hopes of reducing potential punishment.
(d) The subject will not leave their professional responsibilities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Heat's supervisor promptly takes which action upon hearing of Michaelis's name in connection with the Greenwich Park bomb investigation?

2. What is the assistant commissioner's response to the secretary of state's decision to have Heat removed from the investigation of the Greenwich Park explosion?

3. What does the assistant commissioner recall from his first encounter with Michaelis?

4. What does Mr. Verloc do following the Red Committee meeting before going to bed?

5. Which type of fish does the assistant commissioner eventually tell Private Secretary Toodles he is pursuing in connection with the Greenwich Park bombing case on the evening of that incident?

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