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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. How did Mrs. Verloc's mother convince officials to allow her a place in a charity home when she had family to take care of her?
2. How does Winnie learn Stevie was killed in the bombing earlier that day at Greenwich Park?
3. What is the secretary of state's response to the assistant commissioner's request to have Heat removed from the investigation of the Greenwich Park explosion?
4. In addition to being aware that Winnie's mother left, what else is Mr. Verloc's reaction to the domestic troubles in his home?
5. As they prepare to escape from Lonaon, how much of Mr. Verloc's money does Winnie give to Ossipon, and what does she tell him aids in the use of it?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is described as being what Mrs. Verloc fears most in the beginning of Chapter 12?
2. Describe what is compared to the sound of an insane clock at the conclusion of Chapter 11?
3. Who does the assistant commissioner go to see at the start of Chapter 7? What figure of speech is used to compare these two figures? And what does the person the assistant commission visits express as his initial concern?
4. Describe what Mrs. Verloc's mother is doing at the start of Chapter 8 and what is motivating her?
5. Where does the assistant commissioner go for his evening meal and what catches his attention?
6. Identify the individual the assistant commissioner is speaking with at the close of Chapter 10 and what says that might be a quote from his own subordinate.
7. What does Mrs. Verloc's sibling do when a cab driver whips his horse on the ride over to the charity home? Why does her sibling reaction in this way?
8. What does the assistant commissioner do upon completion of his meeting with Sir Ethelred, and what does he encounter?
9. What is Mr. Verloc's disposition at the beginning of Chapter 9?
10. What is it the cab driver complains about at the house and what is the sibling's reaction?
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
In Chapter 2, the reader discovers Mr. Verloc is a secret agent and later discovers he has been an informant. Examine in detail this and other instances of how Conrad approaches the theme of loyalty.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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