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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. Whom does this story center on?
(a) A devoted husband, his beautiful and young wife, and her brother.
(b) A devoted husband, his older wife, and his son from a previous marriage.
(c) A hateful husband, his young and beautiful wife, and her son from a previous marriage.
(d) A devoted husband, his beautiful and young wife, and his brother.

2. In addition to Winnie and Stevie, who else lives with Mr. Verloc?
(a) His niece.
(b) His sister-in-law.
(c) His father-in-law.
(d) His mother-in-law.

3. When Mr. Verloc first met Winnie, what were she and her family operating?
(a) A diner.
(b) A boarding house.
(c) A pub.
(d) A butcher shop.

4. What is Ossipon's reaction upon learning from a paperboy of the Greenwich Park bombing?
(a) He applauded the bomber.
(b) He is unconcerned.
(c) He is merely curious.
(d) He is quite upset.

5. In the morgue, what does Heat find among the yet-to-be-identified remains retrieved from the Greenwich Park bombing scene?
(a) A blue address label on what was once an overcoat.
(b) A portion of an address tag from a shredded leather briefcase.
(c) A collegiate ring with a man's name engraved inside it.
(d) A small portion of a coat of arms emblem from among fragmented jacket pieces.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the spy named in the title of The Secret Agent?

3. What does Mr. Verloc operate?

4. What is it that the professor views as difficult?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Michaelis sent to prison?

2. How is Mr. Verloc described at the start of Chapter 2?

3. What is Mr. Verloc's attitude toward Mrs. Verloc's lone sibling?

4. Why did Michaelis subsequently receive compassion?

5. What are some of Karl Yundt's outstanding characteristics?

6. Where has Mrs. Verloc's sibling been during the Red Committee's meeting and what has the reaction been?

7. 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?

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

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

10. How might the character known as the professor be described?

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