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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. Why is one member of the Red Committee having so much difficulty communicating with other members of the group?
2. Mr. Vladimir tells Mr. Verloc he reviewed his past reports, that they are inadequate as no action has been taken, and indicates that he views the latter's role toward achieving an explosion to be what?
3. Where does Ossipon encounter the professor on the day of the Greenwich Park bombing?
4. Which member of the Red Committee expresses his opinion that Stevie is capable of becoming a criminal as he views her sibling as a degenerate?
5. When Mr. Verloc first met Winnie, what were she and her family operating?
Short Essay Questions
1. Provide a description of where Ossipon runs into the professor in Chapter 4.
2. How does Winnie's mother views her daughter's romance with the young butcher?
3. How is Winnie Verloc's appearance described?
4. As described at the conclusion of Chapter 5, what habit does the Assistant Commissioner have that comforts him the most?
5. Why is it Mr. Verloc is able to leave his business in the hands of his brother-in-law in the morning?
6. How does Ossipon learn it was Mr. Verloc who obtained explosives from the professor, and what is his reaction?
7. How is Michaelis described?
8. Describe what act done by Chief Inspector Heat is detailed and defined as not particularly wise?
9. What considerations is Ossipon reflecting upon regarding his next decision at the conclusion of Chapter 4?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Conrad's tale upon the actual bombing around which it is loosely based. What are the similarities? What are the differences? Did Conrad's work warrant the complaint it received?
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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