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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. Who is the spy named in the title of The Secret Agent?
2. Why is one member of the Red Committee having so much difficulty communicating with other members of the group?
3. The bomb The Professor carries on his person at all times is designed to kill anyone within how many feet of him?
4. Where did The Professor get his nickname?
5. What is the professor's reply when Ossipon asks if he has heard about the morning bomb explosion in Greenwich Park?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the task undertaken by Chief Inspector Heat and what he views as a critical item he locates?
2. How is Michaelis described?
3. How is the individual whom the professor encounters in the alley at the beginning of Chapter 5 described?
4. How is Mr. Verloc described at the start of Chapter 2?
5. Why was Michaelis sent to prison?
6. How might the character known as the professor be described?
7. What considerations is Ossipon reflecting upon regarding his next decision at the conclusion of Chapter 4?
8. Who is Ossipon?
9. What problems are faced by Winnie Verloc's lone, younger sibling?
10. What description of the explosive device he carries on his person does the professor provide Ossipon?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mr. Verloc has friends of his who are members of the International Red Committee as guests discussing social reform and terrorism. Examine how the author uses his novel, The Secret Agent, as a satire on anarchism.
Essay Topic 2
Adolf Verloc is found to be a French spy by the second chapter. But it is not until Chapter 6 that the reader learns he has also been an informant for Chief Inspector Heat. By the end of Chapter 5 it is know that the bomb victim was not Heat as thought possible in Chapter 4, but who is it then? Examine how Conrad uses surprise and secrecy throughout his novel.
Essay Topic 3
Ossipon is introduced in Chapter 3 during the meeting in Mr. Verloc's parlor. The professor is introduced when he is met by chance by Ossipon at the Silenus beer-hall in Chapter 4. The pair are detailed at length through their encounter in this chapter. At the end of the novel the pair again go to the Silenus. Explore and compare each of these character's dispositions, what changes have occurred by the final chapter, and why.
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