The Thirty-Nine Steps Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Thirty-Nine Steps Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jopley feel?
(a) Angry.
(b) Worried.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Bored.

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

3. What do the rough men ask Hannay?
(a) If he knows the quickest way into town.
(b) If he would like to join the conspiracy.
(c) If he is really a road man.
(d) If, essentially, he's seen himself somewhere on the road.

4. This scheme would throw the stock markets into chaos, which the instigators would then use to their advantage to do what?
(a) End capitalism.
(b) Take over Great Britain.
(c) Gain much power and money.
(d) Destroy the United States.

5. Sir Harry is a _________, and he makes a poorly-spoken anti-war speech blasting the Tory party for creating a "German menace."
(a) Liberal.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Whig.
(d) Democrat.

6. 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?
(a) They go upstairs.
(b) They search the inn.
(c) They leave.
(d) They take the innkeeper as a hostage.

7. How does Hannay feel about the sight of the body?
(a) He is annoyed.
(b) He is surprised.
(c) He is shaken.
(d) He feels nothing.

8. Switching trains, Hannay finally emerges into the Scottish moorlands, or _______.
(a) Hills.
(b) Marsh.
(c) Fog.
(d) Bog.

9. Why does Scudder shoot a corpse in the face?
(a) To discourage accurate identification and to fake suicide.
(b) To test out his gun.
(c) He thought the person was alive.
(d) He is very violent.

10. Fortune then smiles as Hannay by chance finds Scudder's black book buried where?
(a) In his tobacco jar.
(b) On a bookshelf.
(c) In the trash.
(d) On Scudder's body.

11. Are the Jew anarchists behind these schemes?
(a) Yes, completely.
(b) No.
(c) Yes, very much.
(d) Yes, partially.

12. Where does Sir Harry ask Hannay to speak?
(a) At a political meeting.
(b) At a church service.
(c) At a town hall meeting.
(d) At a committee meeting.

13. As Hannay speeds along the moor roads in the stolen plainclothes officer's car, he thinks about what?
(a) His life before meeting Scudder.
(b) The enemy.
(c) What he discovered in Scudder's black book.
(d) His family.

14. Why does Hannay know he is in trouble, after seeing the article about Scudder's murder?
(a) His name is mentioned in the article.
(b) The owner of his building had been questioned.
(c) He is friends with the writer of the column.
(d) The milkman had been questioned.

15. The coming war would involve the break of relations between who?
(a) The Germans and the Americans.
(b) The Brits and the Scots.
(c) The Germans and the Brits.
(d) The Brits and the Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Hannay do right before the tea party?

2. Where does Hannay find an article about Scudder's death, dubbed "The Portland Place Murder?"

3. When Hannay searches Scudder's body, does he find anything of worth?

4. He finds a modest farmer's house, and the generous husband and wife offer Hannay what?

5. When they arrive, what does Hannay give Jopley?

(see the answer keys)

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