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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 is the assistant commissioner's action with the secretary of state's private secretary early in the evening of the Greenwich Park bombing?
2. Why does Mrs. Verloc's mother wish to move into a charity home?
3. In Chapter 10, what is the initial destination the Assistant Commissioner goes to for the second time that evening?
4. Who does the assistant commissioner find outside the Verloc pornography shop on the evening of the Greenwich Park bombing?
5. What does Winnie think about Mr. Verloc and Stevie when she last saw them together?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What does Mr. Verloc attempt to stress to his wife regarding the death of her sibling?
3. What is the opening scene of Chapter 11once Chief Inspector Heat has departed the Verloc home?
4. 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.
5. How does Chapter 8 conclude with regard to Mrs. Neale?
6. What is the assistant commissioner's primary goal in briefing Sir Ethelred?
7. 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?
8. What action does Mr. Verloc take when Mrs. Verloc goes upstairs following her confrontation with him in the kitchen after she learned of Stevie's death?
9. What does the assistant commissioner do after completing his visit with the secretary of state?
10. 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?
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
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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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