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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 is Stevie's reaction when he later talks to the cab driver and learns of his plight in caring for four children and wife while having to do cab work at night?
(a) He becomes quite troubled about the poor, initially stating the police should help the poor, but later appears to have his mind on other things and to have forgotten the matter.
(b) He becomes quite upset about the poor and their difficulties, and enroute to the train tells Winnie it is a matter the police should take care of.
(c) He becomes quite troubled about the poor and their difficulties, and while awaiting a hansom tells Winnie the police should take care of it.
(d) He becomes quite troubled about the poor and their difficulties, and when going to the bus stop tells Winnie the police should take care of it.

2. 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 killed a police officer and was caught.
(b) That Mr. Verloc had killed a foreign political figure and fled.
(c) That Mr. Verloc had blown himself up earlier that day.
(d) That Mr. Verloc was killed during a bank robbery attempt.

3. Who does the assistant commissioner send a note to before he departs his office for the second time on the evening of the Greenwich Park explosion?
(a) Michaelis's patroness.
(b) The police commissioner.
(c) His wife.
(d) Heat.

4. To which neighborhood does the Assistant Commissioner travel quickly by hansom from Soho on the evening of the Greenwich Park blast?
(a) Westminster.
(b) Buckingham.
(c) Greenwich Park.
(d) Lancaster.

5. What concern does the secretary of state express when briefed by the assistant commissioner regarding his suspect of the Greenwich Park explosion?
(a) That Mr. Vladimir was not arrested and interrogated.
(b) That Mrs. Verloc was not questioned and placed under house arrest.
(c) That Mr. Verloc was not put in prison.
(d) That Mr. Vladimir was not put in prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Winnie's mother has moved, Mrs. Verloc attempts to convey her concerns that Stevie will soon become depressed. Mr. Verloc tells her to bring in a neighbor woman to assist her because he will be where?

2. How long before the bombing does Winnie's mother move from the Verloc residence into the charity home?

3. Regarding Stevie wandering away, what does Mrs. Verloc assure her husband?

4. What kind of transportation have Winnie and Ossipon chosen to take on the evening of Mr. Verloc's death?

5. What does Winnie think about Mr. Verloc and Stevie when she last saw them together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the assistant commissioner's primary goal in briefing Sir Ethelred?

2. How does Chapter 8 conclude with regard to Mrs. Neale?

3. Describe what Mrs. Verloc's mother is doing at the start of Chapter 8 and what is motivating her?

4. What are two objections Mrs. Verloc has toward Mrs. Neale?

5. What three things surprise Mr. Verloc upon his return from his ten days away?

6. What does Mr. Verloc attempt to stress to his wife regarding the death of her sibling?

7. What is the assistant commissioner watching at the conclusion of Chapter 7 and what does he observe?

8. What name does Mrs. Verloc refer to Ossipon by and why does it excite him?

9. What does the assistant commissioner do upon completion of his meeting with Sir Ethelred, and what does he encounter?

10. What is Mr. Verloc's disposition at the beginning of Chapter 9?

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