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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 does Winnie explain to Stevie about the purpose of the police when he states they should do something for the poor?
(a) They aid people not merely because they are poor, but to ensure they do not steal things from rich people.
(b) The poor do not pay their taxes, so the police do not help them.
(c) They aid people not merely because they are poor, but to ensure the rich do not steal from them.
(d) They aid people not merely because they are poor, but to keep everyone safe.

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

3. What is the assistant commissioner's action with the secretary of state's private secretary early in the evening of the Greenwich Park bombing?
(a) He arranges a note be sent to his wife regarding his inability that evening to accompany her to the home of her friend for dinner.
(b) He accepts several more cigars and they exchange a few brief comments on a national sporting team before he departs.
(c) He accepts his hat and outer coat that he took off upon arrival, and utters only a quick word of thanks before departing.
(d) They exchange a few brief comments on the case and a current bill concerning fisheries before the assistant commissioner departs.

4. 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, and he explains all that has transpired so far.
(b) He says how sorry he is that Stevie died.
(c) He begins to describe his second life as a secret agent, and explains all that has transpired so far, except how Stevie was killed.
(d) 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Once the Assistant Commissioner arrives at the reported center of the empire, there are several constables who do what upon seeing him departing the vehicle?

2. How does Winnie learn Stevie was killed in the bombing earlier that day at Greenwich Park?

3. What does Mr. Verloc give his wife to hide on the evening of the bombing, and where does she place it?

4. What agitates Stevie at breakfast on the morning Mr. Verloc returns from his trip?

5. In chapter 7, what does the assistant commissioner ensure when he returns to his office following his evening meeting with the secretary of state?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the opening scene of Chapter 11once Chief Inspector Heat has departed the Verloc home?

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

3. What is it the cab driver complains about at the house and what is the sibling's reaction?

4. What exchange takes place between Mr. and Mrs. Verloc on the afternoon he returns from his out-of-country trip, when he announces he is interested in taking a walk?

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

6. What action does Mr. Verloc take when Mrs. Verloc goes upstairs following her confrontation with him in the kitchen after she learned of Stevie's death?

7. Describe what is compared to the sound of an insane clock at the conclusion of Chapter 11?

8. What is described as being what Mrs. Verloc fears most in the beginning of Chapter 12?

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

10. What does Mrs. Verloc's sibling do when a cab driver whips his horse on the ride over to the charity home? Why does her sibling reaction in this way?

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