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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once the Assistant Commissioner arrives at the reported center of the empire, there are several constables who do what upon seeing him departing the vehicle?
(a) Announce a good evening to him.
(b) Turn away from him.
(c) Challenge him for identification.
(d) Salute him.

2. What is Winnie's response to Mr. Verloc immediately after Heat leaves their home?
(a) She refuses to listen, only thinking about her brother and and mother, and the sacrifices she has made for them.
(b) She listens, also thinking about Stevie and the sacrifices she has made for her brother.
(c) She listens, but nothing is registering as she is simultaneously thinking about the times she spent with Stevie and her mother.
(d) She only barely listens, thinking more about Stevie and her mother, and sacrifices she has made for them.

3. Specifically, what is it Winnie offers in exchange for Ossipon's assistance in escape on the evening of Mr. Verloc's demise?
(a) Money.
(b) The shop and residence.
(c) Her body and her love.
(d) Bomb components.

4. At the start of Chapter 11, right after Heat departs, how does Mr. Verloc find Winnie?
(a) With her face in her hands.
(b) Holding a knife.
(c) Getting dressed to leave.
(d) With her head on the table.

5. Heat's supervisor promptly takes which action upon hearing of Michaelis's name in connection with the Greenwich Park bomb investigation?
(a) Dismisses Heat abruptly and then falls into his desk chair thinking about this subject.
(b) Turns his back to Heat and dismisses him from the office a few minutes later thinking about this subject.
(c) After dismissing Heat, he dwells on thoughts of the three other club members whom he routinely plays a whist game with.
(d) Abruptly dismisses a vague memory of a whist game he participates in daily at his club.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Verloc feel about her mother's decision to move out?

2. Where did Heat have his initial encounter with Mr. Verloc some time ago?

3. What is Ossipon's reaction upon learning from a paperboy of the Greenwich Park bombing?

4. What does Mr. Vladimir learn about Mr. Verloc that terribly disappoints him?

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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