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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hand of the professor tighten upon as he encounters Heat for the first time?

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 reaction does Heat's supervisor have upon initially hearing of Michaelis's connection with the Greenwich Park explosion investigation?

4. Which nation is Mr. Vladimir an agent for?

5. Where is Mr. Verloc's shop located?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Winnie's mother views her daughter's romance with the young butcher?

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

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

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

5. As described at the conclusion of Chapter 5, what habit does the Assistant Commissioner have that comforts him the most?

6. How does Ossipon learn it was Mr. Verloc who obtained explosives from the professor, and what is his reaction?

7. Describe what act done by Chief Inspector Heat is detailed and defined as not particularly wise?

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

9. How is Michaelis described?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Toodles, the secretary of state's private secretary, only appears in two chapters. He is initially introduced in Chapter 7, when the assistant commissioner first reports to the secretary of state, and again in Chapter 10, when the assistant commissioner returns unexpectedly early to make his report to the secretary of state. Examine how the author uses this new character, Toodles, and both encounters he has with the assistant commissioner in relaying his tale.

Essay Topic 2

Honesty, or lack of it, is a trait that is touched upon repeatedly by Conrad in this work. Some lacked virtually any at all. Others' levels of honesty were determined by what they were seeking. Examine the trait of honesty in the characters in this tale and what governed it.

Essay Topic 3

Joseph Conrad uses the technique of foreshadowing throughout his text to suggest specific events that will transpire in later chapters. The nature of the Verloc's pornography shop revealed in Chapter 1, for instance, suggests they cross the line of respectability and not everything they engage in is legal. This foreshadows illegal activities in which Mr. Verloc will be engaged in later chapters. Examine five similar examples of where the author has used this technique of foreshadowing.

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