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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is the assistant commissioner feeling about his decision to take his new law enforcement position in London?
(a) He is happily settled in.
(b) He is happily settled in, but does miss the satisfaction of closing investigations with convictions of criminals.
(c) He is not happily settled in, but does not miss the hassle of conducting investigations.
(d) He is not happily settled in.

3. What is Stevie's age?
(a) Older than Winnie.
(b) Infant.
(c) Middle-aged.
(d) Younger than Mr. Verloc.

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

5. The Secret Agent is a novel centered on the attempt in 1894 to destroy what?
(a) The Greenwich Observatory.
(b) Trafalgar Square.
(c) The London Bridge.
(d) Buckingham Palace.

6. What does the professor say his sole goal in life is?
(a) Construct the perfect bomb.
(b) To always have his true identity remain a secret.
(c) Build the perfect detonator.
(d) To go down in history as the greatest bomber.

7. When initially briefed by Heat on the Greenwich Park explosion, what is the assistant commissioner told when he asks if the Verlock residence was being watched?
(a) Heat states it was not, but assures him he will initiate it immediately.
(b) Heat assures him the home is watched around the clock.
(c) Heat assures him that is not the case.
(d) Heat assures him that takes place only after dark.

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

9. As he investigates the Greenwich Park explosion, what is Heat's reaction when he initially eyes the professor?
(a) Heat dismisses him, declaring he has no interest in him today.
(b) Heat believes this individual is in no way connected to the explosion and dismisses him.
(c) Heat believes someone else is culpable and dismisses him.
(d) Heat is certain no bomber would have survived the explosion and does not feel this individual is involved.

10. Subsequent to his initial encounter, how long ago did Heat first approach Mr. Verloc and offer protection of his business packages from discovery if he would provide Heat information?
(a) Two years ago.
(b) Five years ago.
(c) Seven years ago.
(d) Nine years ago.

11. What route does Red Committee group member Michaelis say is the answer to the current social ills?
(a) Patience and action through the arts, sciences, and education.
(b) Maintaining a stable economic status.
(c) Bombing of scientific institutions.
(d) Emotion and riotous action are essential and knowledge is unhelpful.

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

13. What does Mr. Verloc plan to do if he stops receiving monthly paychecks from the embassy?
(a) Mr. Verloc has nothing to worry about because he has plans that he has total confidence in.
(b) Mr. Verloc has begun making plans, but does not have complete faith in them as yet.
(c) Mr. Verloc is unconcerned and has no definite plans at this point.
(d) Mr. Verloc is very worried, as he does not know what to do yet.

14. What does Heat tell the assistant commissioner that the coroner suspects regarding the fatality at the Greenwich Park explosion?
(a) That the person killed is the fair-haired male and the other individual left the scene prior to the explosion.
(b) That the person killed is the thinner, dark-haired male and the other individual left the scene prior to the explosion.
(c) That the person killed is the older, stocky male and the other individual left the scene prior to the explosion.
(d) That the person killed is the fair-haired female and the other individual left the scene prior to the explosion.

15. Mr. Vladimir tells Mr. Verloc he reviewed his past reports, that they are inadequate as no action has been taken, and indicates that he views the latter's role toward achieving an explosion to be what?
(a) An agent emissaire, a representative sent on a special mission, in this instance one of a clandestine nature.
(b) An agent courier, a messenger designated to relay information to an espionage or underground organization.
(c) An agent provocateur, one associating with suspected individuals and pretending to side with them to provoke them into an incriminating deed.
(d) An agent espionage, one under the employment of a government in the role of spying to gain political information.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Verloc feel about the opinions expressed by his friends during their Red Committee meeting at his home?

2. Where did The Professor get his nickname?

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

4. In which year does the actual incident on which this novel is based take place?

5. What did Heat tell his supervisor were everywhere at the scene of the Greenwich Park explosion?

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