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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. To which neighborhood does the Assistant Commissioner travel quickly by hansom from Soho on the evening of the Greenwich Park blast?
2. Who does the assistant commissioner find outside the Verloc pornography shop on the evening of the Greenwich Park bombing?
3. What does Private Secretary Toodles initially assume when the assistant sommissioner arrives unexpectedly soon at the office of the secretary of state?
4. What does Mr. Verloc tell his wife when he finds her right after Heat leaves their home?
5. What sort of restaurant does the assistant commissioner eat dinner at on the evening of the Greenwich Park blast?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Mr. Verloc attempt to stress to his wife regarding the death of her sibling?
2. What is it the cab driver complains about at the house and what is the sibling's reaction?
3. What is the assistant commissioner's primary goal in briefing Sir Ethelred?
4. What is described as being what Mrs. Verloc fears most in the beginning of Chapter 12?
5. What three things surprise Mr. Verloc upon his return from his ten days away?
6. 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?
7. Describe what Mrs. Verloc's mother is doing at the start of Chapter 8 and what is motivating her?
8. Where does the assistant commissioner go for his evening meal and what catches his attention?
9. When Ossipon jumps from the moving train and abandons Mrs. Verloc with no funds, what does he tell the railway workers who gather around him?
10. Describe what is compared to the sound of an insane clock at the conclusion of Chapter 11?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Honesty, or lack of it, is a trait that is touched upon repeatedly by Conrad in this work. Some lacked virtually any at all. Others' levels of honesty were determined by what they were seeking. Examine the trait of honesty in the characters in this tale and what governed it.
Essay Topic 3
Examine the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Verloc. What motivates each of them to get married? Why is it they stay together? What are the ironies of their relationship? Examine their marriage coming apart at the death of Stevie.
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