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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 Mr. Verloc's shop display to draw in customers?
2. What is Stevie's reaction upon hearing the Red Committee discussion that took place in the Verloc residence regarding social reform?
3. Where is Mr. Verloc's shop located?
4. Which member of the International Red Committee rambles at the beginning of their meeting?
5. What happens after Mr. Verloc and Winnie marry?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the task undertaken by Chief Inspector Heat and what he views as a critical item he locates?
2. Where has Mrs. Verloc's sibling been during the Red Committee's meeting and what has the reaction been?
3. How is Mr. Verloc described at the start of Chapter 2?
4. Describe what act done by Chief Inspector Heat is detailed and defined as not particularly wise?
5. What happens when Mr. Verloc is going around putting out the lights in the house after the Red Committee's meeting and he encounters his wife's sibling watching him?
6. What is Mr. Verloc's attitude toward Mrs. Verloc's lone sibling?
7. How is Michaelis described?
8. 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?
9. How is Mr. Verloc's business establishment described?
10. How is the individual whom the professor encounters in the alley at the beginning of Chapter 5 described?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mr. Verloc fears the consequences of failing to satisfy his superiors. Consider in detail this and other instances of Conrad's use of the theme of fear in his story.
Essay Topic 2
Some of the characters in Conrad's novel are not whom they initially seem to be. Some are harder than they might have at first appeared, others not quite as cold or callous. Take four characters and examine how they are different by the end of the tale than at first encountered. Describe the individual's outlook and view of the world and what motivates them to change.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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