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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. Whom does this story center on?
2. Which phrase best describes Mr. Verloc?
3. Following the meeting of Mr. Verloc with his Red Committee friends, what does Mrs. Verloc do?
4. Why was Michaelis convicted for murder?
5. What does Mr. Verloc operate?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Mr. Verloc's attitude toward Mrs. Verloc's lone sibling?
2. What are some of Karl Yundt's outstanding characteristics?
3. Why did Michaelis subsequently receive compassion?
4. As described at the conclusion of Chapter 5, what habit does the Assistant Commissioner have that comforts him the most?
5. How is the individual whom the professor encounters in the alley at the beginning of Chapter 5 described?
6. How is Mr. Verloc described at the start of Chapter 2?
7. How does Ossipon learn it was Mr. Verloc who obtained explosives from the professor, and what is his reaction?
8. What considerations is Ossipon reflecting upon regarding his next decision at the conclusion of Chapter 4?
9. As the assistant commissioner does not believe that Chief Inspector Heat is being totally open with him, what are the items of information he finally receives before he dismisses him?
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
In Chapter 3, Stevie is able to listen to the International Red Committee members' discussion in the parlor from his position in the adjoining kitchen. Conrad allows the reader to know that Stevie is easily upset by so much as a description of cruelty toward others. This foreshadows his reactions to subsequent events. Examine what transpires in this chapter which lays the foundation for this matter in Conrad's tale. Follow it through to the conclusion of Stevie's role in Adolf Verloc's plot.
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
Conrad establishes scenes by laying out in great detail the stage setting upon which the scene will take place. For instance, in Chapter 1 he provides an extensive description of the front window and entrance to the Verloc's pornography shop. In Chapter 4 he delivers a virtual snapshot of the Silenus beer-hall where Ossipon encounters the professor. Discuss how Conrad uses this technique to establish settings in which scenes take place.
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