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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Although initially insisting he works independently, the professor eventually confesses that he recently had sold what?
(a) A bomb concealed in a lunch basket.
(b) A bomb concealed in a backpack.
(c) A bomb concealed in a varnish can.
(d) A bomb concealed in a briefcase.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Mr. Wurmt and Mr. Verloc have their single meeting in the story?

2. What does Mr. Verloc find his wife doing when he returns home immediately following his encounters with Mr. Wurmt and then Mr. Vladimir?

3. What is one reason Mr. Verloc is unconcerned when he leaves his shop in the care of someone else?

4. What is Mr. Wurmt initially carrying in his meeting with Mr. Verloc?

5. What are the items usually sold when young men come in the shop for their first time and find Winnie at the counter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mrs. Verloc's younger sibling's spare time occupied and where?

2. What problems are faced by Winnie Verloc's lone, younger sibling?

3. Toward the end of Chapter 5, Chief Inspector Heat mentions Michaelis's name, which arouses the interest of the assistant commissioner. What reason revealed in Chapter 6 causes him to become concerned?

4. What description of the explosive device he carries on his person does the professor provide Ossipon?

5. What is Ossipon's view of Mrs. Verloc's sibling?

6. What does the professor describe as his goal and what does it take to achieve it?

7. What happens when Mr. Verloc is going around putting out the lights in the house after the Red Committee's meeting and he encounters his wife's sibling watching him?

8. How is Michaelis described?

9. Provide a description of where Ossipon runs into the professor in Chapter 4.

10. What is Mr. Vladimir's response when Mr. Verloc tells him that what he seeks will cost money?

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