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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Vladimir learn about Mr. Verloc that terribly disappoints him?
(a) Mr. Verloc is having an affair with a bank clerk.
(b) Mr. Verloc is married.
(c) Mr. Verloc is losing money running his pornography business.
(d) Mr. Verloc's marriage is not permanent.

2. In addition to Winnie and Stevie, who else lives with Mr. Verloc?
(a) His father-in-law.
(b) His niece.
(c) His mother-in-law.
(d) His sister-in-law.

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

4. What does Mr. Verloc operate?
(a) A pornography shop.
(b) A tobacco shop.
(c) A jewelry shop.
(d) A butcher shop.

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

6. What is the professor's master skill?
(a) Preparing corpses.
(b) Assisting at a college library.
(c) Constructing bombs.
(d) Painting pictures.

7. What does Mr. Verloc do when he returns home immediately after the meeting with Mr. Vladimir in which he learns his monthly income checks are in jeopardy.
(a) He seeks advice from Stevie on the matter.
(b) He goes to a local tavern after dinner for a couple of glasses of beer.
(c) He enjoys a big homemade dinner and speaks in an unconcerned manner with his family.
(d) He sulks and worries.

8. Following the meeting of Mr. Verloc with his Red Committee friends, what does Mrs. Verloc do?
(a) She sits in the bedroom until Stevie falls asleep.
(b) She goes to bed and finds Mr. Verloc already asleep.
(c) She talks her husband into bed.
(d) She goes to bed and discovers Mr. Verloc wants to be distracted by her affection.

9. Where did Heat have his initial encounter with Mr. Verloc some time ago?
(a) In French Ambassador Baron Stott-Wartenheim's bathroom.
(b) In Mr. Verloc's shop.
(c) In German Ambassador Baron Stott-Wartenheim's bathroom.
(d) In Greenwich Park.

10. What are the Red Committee members doing during their meeting?
(a) Developing plans for assembling a bomb.
(b) Discussing capitalism and socialism.
(c) Discussing the ideal target for a bombing.
(d) Discussing Mr. Verloc's previous meeting with Mr. Vladimir.

11. What does Mr. Verloc stipulate will be required to carry out Vladimir's bomb plot?
(a) A large sum of money.
(b) No further funds than the amount he receives monthly.
(c) No further funds at all.
(d) A modest sum of money.

12. Who is usually privileged to sit in the horsehair armchair in the parlor?
(a) Mrs. Verloc.
(b) Mrs. Verloc's sibling.
(c) Mr. Verloc.
(d) Mrs. Verloc's mother.

13. Who did Heat personally assure the month prior to the Greenwich Park explosion that no terrorist acts would occur anytime soon because Heat is watching every known terrorist?
(a) The king.
(b) The mayor.
(c) The secretary of state.
(d) The prime minister.

14. How do The Professor and Ossipon part on the day of the Greenwich Park explosion?
(a) Ossipon leaves the professor alone inside.
(b) Ossipon and the professor depart side-by-side.
(c) Ossipon leaves the professor inside with another Red Committee member.
(d) Ossipon follows the professor outside but finds him gone.

15. What is it that Ossipon wonders about for a brief time subsequent to learning of the Greenwich Park explosion and suspecting who was killed?
(a) What will the group the bomb victim belonged to do?
(b) If there are any, what will happen to the bomb victim's children?
(c) What will the bomb victim's spouse now do?
(d) What will the extended family of the bomb victim do?

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heat tell the Assistant Commissioner that a witness spotted in Greenwich Park prior to the explosion that morning?

2. Where in Mr. Verloc's residence does the meeting of the International Red Committee take place?

3. Which nation is Mr. Vladimir an agent for?

4. Where did Mr. Verloc live before he got married?

5. Red Committee member Ossipon expresses what opinion regarding the state of social ills?

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