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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mr. Vladimir's position?
(a) First secretary.
(b) Privy councillor.
(c) Prime minister.
(d) Ambassador.

2. Before Mr. Verloc acted as an informant, who initially followed him to his pornography business?
(a) Mr. Vladimir himself.
(b) Baron Stott-Wartenheim.
(c) An assigned cop.
(d) Heat himself.

3. 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 enjoys a big homemade dinner and speaks in an unconcerned manner with his family.
(b) He seeks advice from Stevie on the matter.
(c) He goes to a local tavern after dinner for a couple of glasses of beer.
(d) He sulks and worries.

4. What is the occupation of Lombroso?
(a) Attorney.
(b) Psychologist.
(c) Criminologist.
(d) Psychiatrist.

5. 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) If there are any, what will happen to the bomb victim's children?
(b) What will the bomb victim's spouse now do?
(c) What will the extended family of the bomb victim do?
(d) What will the group the bomb victim belonged to do?

6. A bombing of what facility does Mr. Vladimir suggest would create fear and provoke a reaction toward change?
(a) A science center.
(b) An arts institution.
(c) A stock exchange.
(d) An embassy.

7. 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) Heat received no aid from them to reach his current position and he resents they no longer directly investigate.
(c) He is rushed for time and does not like to submit to them.
(d) He wants to be left alone, but needs some assistance nonetheless.

8. 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) Abruptly dismisses a vague memory of a whist game he participates in daily at his club.
(c) After dismissing Heat, he dwells on thoughts of the three other club members whom he routinely plays a whist game with.
(d) Turns his back to Heat and dismisses him from the office a few minutes later thinking about this subject.

9. Who is Mr. Wurmt?
(a) The English privy councillor.
(b) The Russian privy councillor.
(c) The German privy councillor.
(d) The French privy councillor.

10. 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 mayor.
(b) The prime minister.
(c) The king.
(d) The secretary of state.

11. What is Mr. Verloc told by Mr. Wurmt when they have their meeting at the embassy?
(a) That more detailed diagrams are required.
(b) That the information he provides is superior and rates a higher payment.
(c) That writing alone is no longer enough.
(d) That more detailed photographs are required.

12. What does Heat tell the Assistant Commissioner that a witness spotted in Greenwich Park prior to the explosion that morning?
(a) Two middle-aged men, a thinner, dark-haired one and a stocky, fair-haired one.
(b) Two men, a fair-haired one and an older, stockier one.
(c) Two young men, an average, fair-haired one and a thinner, dark-haired one.
(d) A young, fair-haired woman and an older, stockier man.

13. Which member of the International Red Committee rambles at the beginning of their meeting?
(a) Michaelis.
(b) Ossipon.
(c) Mr. Verloc.
(d) Yundt.

14. What is Ossipon's opinion of Stevie?
(a) That he is a degenerate, capable of becoming a criminal one day.
(b) That while not exceptionally bright, he will learn a trade and do well.
(c) That he is simple-minded, but harmless to himself or others.
(d) That he is intelligent and likely to be a physician or scientist someday.

15. Red Committee member Ossipon expresses what opinion regarding the state of social ills?
(a) World war, not peace, is the answer, and the European Alliance Treaty Organization is useless.
(b) Emotion, not education, is the answer, and action needs to be taken.
(c) Agitation in Third World nations is an aid.
(d) Constant financial undermining of the poor is the answer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the professor initially encounter Chief Inspector Heat while the latter is conducting his inspection of the Greenwich Park explosion?

2. The bomb The Professor carries on his person at all times is designed to kill anyone within how many feet of him?

3. What does Red Committee group member Yundt view as being cannibalistic?

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

5. 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?

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