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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Hannay find an article about Scudder's death, dubbed "The Portland Place Murder?"
(a) In a Scottish Review newspaper.
(b) On a board in the train station.
(c) In an old shepherd's daily newspaper.
(d) On a reward poster.

2. Scudder figures the only way he might live is to do what?
(a) Return to the United States.
(b) Fake his own death.
(c) Kill the conspirators.
(d) Run away.

3. How old is Hannay?
(a) 37.
(b) 17.
(c) 47.
(d) 27.

4. Finding himself back in the moorland, Hannay must hide where?
(a) Among the bushes.
(b) In an abandoned building.
(c) In a dense forest.
(d) In a farmer's home.

5. Arriving at a station he had been to the night before, Hannay must hide in the shadows from whom?
(a) A group of policemen.
(b) A station-manager.
(c) A station-master he met the day before and three police officers questioning the station-manager.
(d) A station-master he met the day before, and three rough-looking local policemen questioning the station-master.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Hannay resolved to move back to the Cape?

2. Hannay, hidden upstairs, gives the boy a note he forges, which makes Hannay sound like a spy who is about to inform his superior about the Karolides affair. What do the men do after reading this note?

3. He examines Scudder's black book, which appears to be coded with a cipher that requires what?

4. What does Sir Harry offer Hannay?

5. What saves Hannay's life?

(see the answer key)

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