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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to being aware that Winnie's mother left, what else is Mr. Verloc's reaction to the domestic troubles in his home?
(a) He tells Winnie to hire a neighbor to clean and he will help too.
(b) He is mainly oblivious.
(c) While concerned, he is trusting Winnie will resolve them.
(d) He approaches Winnie in an attempt to resolve them.

2. Who does the assistant commissioner find outside the Verloc pornography shop on the evening of the Greenwich Park bombing?
(a) A stocky, middle-aged male just leaving
(b) Bright streetlamps offering little place to hide.
(c) An individual closing the shop up.
(d) A police officer walking past on his beat.

3. When asked, what is it that the secretary of state is told that makes it unnecessary to incarcerate the person he is concerned about?
(a) The subject will not leave their professional responsibilities.
(b) The subject has no place to go to without being found and then incurring further problems.
(c) The subject will not leave in hopes of reducing potential punishment.
(d) The subject has a spouse who will not leave the country.

4. What concerns Winnie when her brother is outside with Mr. Verloc in Chapter 9?
(a) The things Stevie will hear, and that they will encounter Mr. Verloc's friends.
(b) That her brother will actually get lost and be unable to find his way back home.
(c) That her brother will attempt to run away and get to his mother's charity home at his first chane.
(d) That Steve will encounter extremely bad weather and get deathly ill as a result.

5. What is Winnie concerned about while Mr. Verloc is on his trip in Chapter 9?
(a) Stevie's depression due to the police not providing for the poor.
(b) Stevie's depression due to his encounter with the cab driver.
(c) Stevie's depression due to his mother suddenly leaving.
(d) Stevie's depression due to Mr. Verloc's return.

6. 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, but nothing is registering as she is simultaneously thinking about the times she spent with Stevie and her mother.
(c) She only barely listens, thinking more about Stevie and her mother, and sacrifices she has made for them.
(d) She listens, also thinking about Stevie and the sacrifices she has made for her brother.

7. How do Winnie and Ossipon plan to make their way to the point of departure in their escape from London?
(a) Separately, with Winnie wearing her veil and Ossipon wearing his hat down low.
(b) Together, with Winnie wearing her hood over her head.
(c) Together.
(d) Separately.

8. What agitates Stevie at breakfast on the morning Mr. Verloc returns from his trip?
(a) When a neighbor man starts complaining about the poor not being granted basic health care, and education and occupational training opportunities.
(b) When a neighbor woman starts complaining about the discrimination in not allowing woman an equal vote.
(c) When a neighbor woman starts complaining about the difficulties in raising children with little governmental support.
(d) When a neighbor woman starts complaining about the difficulties in raising children with little money.

9. How long before the bombing does Winnie's mother move from the Verloc residence into the charity home?
(a) Approximately a year.
(b) Several months.
(c) A couple of days.
(d) A few weeks.

10. What is Stevie's reaction when the cab driver starts whipping the horse during the ride to his mother's charity home?
(a) Stevie covers his eyes and screams for the driver to stop.
(b) Stevie climbs down and refuses to get back on the cab.
(c) Stevie attempts to pry the whip from the cab driver's hand
(d) Stevie becomes upset and attempts to climb down and walk.

11. When Ossipon encounters Winnie in the street not far from her shop on the evening of Mr. Verloc's death, he subsequently accompanies her to the Verloc parlor and he believes what?
(a) That Mr. Verloc had blown himself up earlier that day.
(b) That Mr. Verloc had killed a foreign political figure and fled.
(c) That Mr. Verloc had killed a police officer and was caught.
(d) That Mr. Verloc was killed during a bank robbery attempt.

12. What does Mr. Verloc tell his wife when he finds her right after Heat leaves their home?
(a) He begins to describe his second life as a secret agent. but in thinking how he must describe Stevie's death to Winnie begins to cry.
(b) He begins to describe his second life as a secret agent, and he explains all that has transpired so far.
(c) He says how sorry he is that Stevie died.
(d) He begins to describe his second life as a secret agent, and explains all that has transpired so far, except how Stevie was killed.

13. How does the assistant commissioner feel in regard to his conversation with Mr. Verloc on the evening of the Greenwich Park explosion?
(a) He is quite satisfied.
(b) He has only partial confidence in Mr. Verloc's honesty.
(c) He is not absolutely confident.
(d) He is not at all satisfied.

14. When briefed, what is the secretary of state told was the intended bombing target?
(a) The Greenwich tram station.
(b) The main square in Greenwich.
(c) The Greenwich Observatory.
(d) The area bombed in Greenwich Park.

15. Once having interviewed Mr. Verloc, what is it that the assistant commissioner quickly stresses to the secretary of state that he learned during his investigation regarding the Greenwich Park bombing?
(a) That Michaelis is cleared of any involvement.
(b) That Mrs. Verloc's testimony easily implicates the first secretary of the French embassy.
(c) That Mr. Verloc should be offered immunity in exchange for his testimony.
(d) He does not feel Mr. Verloc will leave the country, but he has had an officer assigned to follow him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of restaurant does the assistant commissioner eat dinner at on the evening of the Greenwich Park blast?

2. What does Private Secretary Toodles initially assume when the assistant sommissioner arrives unexpectedly soon at the office of the secretary of state?

3. What reason does the assistant commissioner give the secretary of state to have Heat removed from the investigation of that explosion?

4. What concern does the secretary of state express when briefed by the assistant commissioner regarding his suspect of the Greenwich Park explosion?

5. Winnie imagines herself being put to death for her husband's murder and falling how many feet from the gallows with a rope around her neck?

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