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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Doyle stays in a hotel after he is fired from the inn, where ________ is supposed to be staying.
(a) Ashbless.
(b) Dog Face Joe.
(c) Coleridge.
(d) Lord Byron.

2. When Jacky is tracking down Dog Face Joe, she barges into a house where she hears screaming. What does the man inside claim to have killed?
(a) Ape.
(b) Sorcerer.
(c) Beggar lord.
(d) Werewolf.

3. Who says, "Time is comparable to a river flowing under a layer of ice. It stretches us out like water weeds, from root to tip, from birth to death, curled around whatever rocks or snags happen to lie in our path; and no one can get out of the river because of the ice roof, and no one can turn back against the current for an instant?"
(a) Doyle.
(b) Darrow.
(c) Benner.
(d) Treff.

4. Who is the dwarf?
(a) Horrabin.
(b) Skate Benjamin.
(c) Dungy.
(d) Fairchild.

5. Horrabin sits in a unique contraption. What is it?
(a) Harness.
(b) High chair.
(c) Throne.
(d) Cart.

6. Who does Doyle meet after he loses his products as a costermonger?
(a) Darrow.
(b) Horrabin.
(c) Meg.
(d) Romany.

7. What wooden carving does Damnable Richard talk to?
(a) Dolphin.
(b) Monkey.
(c) Snake.
(d) Wolf.

8. What job does Jacky get for Doyle at an inn?
(a) Shoveling horse manure.
(b) Delivering newspapers.
(c) Shining boots.
(d) Turning down beds.

9. Where does Doyle try to go when he's running from Horrabin?
(a) London Bridge.
(b) The gypsy camp.
(c) Pye Street Beggar House.
(d) The Crown and Anchor.

10. Who is the first character introduced in the book?
(a) Darrow.
(b) Romany.
(c) Doyle.
(d) Fikee.

11. Romany nearly burns which part of Doyle's body?
(a) Neck.
(b) Finger.
(c) Eye.
(d) Chest.

12. What is Darrow holding hostage from his men?
(a) Girlfriends.
(b) Dog Face Joe.
(c) Hooks.
(d) Pistols.

13. Doyle is hired as an expert of which poet?
(a) Coleridge.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Hazlitt.
(d) Ashbless.

14. Who would Doyle rather have lunch with than Dog Face Joe?
(a) Horrabin.
(b) Jack the Ripper.
(c) Darrow.
(d) Romany.

15. Who is Rebecca?
(a) Doyle's wife.
(b) Fikee's wife.
(c) A flight attendant.
(d) Darrow's assistant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Damnable Richard think Doyle is?

2. What item did a woman give to Dumb Tom?

3. What does Doyle buckle to his neck?

4. What is Jacky disguised as when she is captured in the Rat Castle?

5. What is Dumb Tom gnawing on in the streets when he begs in front of the theater?

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