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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where in Mr. Verloc's residence does the meeting of the International Red Committee take place?
(a) In the parlor.
(b) In a room over his pornography shop.
(c) In the basement.
(d) In a back room.

2. When asked by Ossipon to describe the person who purchased the device, what is the professor's response?
(a) He provides a detailed description.
(b) He provides a vague description.
(c) He provides Ossipon a first name.
(d) He provides Ossipon a surname.

3. What happens after Mr. Verloc and Winnie marry?
(a) The business operated by Winnie and her family is closed, and Mr. Verloc assumes responsibility for her family.
(b) Winnie and Mr. Verloc open their new business while her family maintains an existing one.
(c) Winnie and Mr. Verloc operate his existing business, and her family continues an existing one.
(d) Mr. Verloc moves in with Winnie's family, and he assumes responsibility for their existing business.

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

5. What is Mr. Verloc's response to his first contact with Mr. Vladimir?
(a) He could not care less.
(b) He is quite pleased.
(c) He is only slightly concerned.
(d) He is quite troubled.

6. Where do Mr. Wurmt and Mr. Verloc have their single meeting in the story?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) Moscow.

7. What goal does Mr. Vladimir hope to achieve?
(a) An event that will excite Paris's middle class.
(b) An event that will excite London's privileged upper class.
(c) An event that will excite London's lower working class.
(d) An event that will excite London's middle class.

8. Where does the professor initially encounter Chief Inspector Heat while the latter is conducting his inspection of the Greenwich Park explosion?
(a) In a Scotland Yard interrogation room.
(b) In an alley between two busy streets.
(c) In the vicinity of Greenwich Park.
(d) In a beer hall near the professor's residence.

9. Where does Stevie sit while the Red Committee meet at Mr. Verloc's house?
(a) In a room over the parlor.
(b) In the parlor.
(c) In a back room.
(d) In the kitchen.

10. In which year does the actual incident on which this novel is based take place?
(a) 1948,
(b) 1949.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1889.

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

12. 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.

13. What reaction does Heat's supervisor have upon initially hearing of Michaelis's connection with the Greenwich Park explosion investigation?
(a) He is irritated.
(b) He smiles briefly.
(c) He chuckles mockingly.
(d) He is glad.

14. Which phrase best describes Stevie?
(a) An astute individual.
(b) A brilliant individual.
(c) A simpleminded individual.
(d) An average individual.

15. Where did The Professor get his nickname?
(a) He once taught chemistry at a university.
(b) He once taught chemistry at a secondary school.
(c) He once was a pharmaceutical technician.
(d) He once worked as an assistant at a technical school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Following the meeting of Mr. Verloc with his Red Committee friends, what does Mrs. Verloc do?

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

3. What is Mr. Vladimir's position?

4. Why is one member of the Red Committee having so much difficulty communicating with other members of the group?

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

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