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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Do they know the location from which Black Stone will leave England?
(a) Most likely.
(b) No.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Yes.

2. Hannay and Scaife pose as what now as they investigate a sleek yacht docked nearby, called the Ariadne?
(a) Germans.
(b) Captains.
(c) Sailors.
(d) Fishermen.

3. For whom are the men searching?
(a) Their leader.
(b) Their missing men.
(c) Hannay.
(d) The police.

4. Who does Hannay bump into?
(a) Scudder.
(b) The police.
(c) Bullivant.
(d) Marmaduke Jopley and his buddies.

5. Armed with this fact, how does Hannay feel?
(a) Confident.
(b) Scared.
(c) Angry.
(d) Unsure.

6. When the old man confronts Hannay, Hannay as Ainslie confesses he did what?
(a) Stole a car.
(b) Came from Paris.
(c) Works for Black Stone.
(d) Stole some money from a car.

7. Trafalgar Lodge must be what?
(a) A base of operations for Black Stone.
(b) A popular destination.
(c) A hotel.
(d) A vacation home.

8. An old fisherman strikes up a conversation with him, they talk about the lake, and Hannay mentions that a difficult fish is tugging like what?
(a) A "monster."
(b) A "tornado."
(c) A "whale."
(d) A "black stone."

9. To avoid detection, Black Stone must be leaving from where?
(a) Either a small harbor or none at all.
(b) A small harbor.
(c) No harbor.
(d) A large harbor.

10. The crew seems English and innocent enough, but their officer bears a close-cropped haircut and a certain fashion in clothes that tells Hannay he is _________, not English.
(a) French.
(b) Austrian.
(c) Swiss.
(d) German.

11. At this point the old man bats his eyelashes in a peculiar way, a half-shut wink, of a kind that Scudder describes in his notebook belonging to whom?
(a) An ally.
(b) A man he dreaded above all others.
(c) The Greek man.
(d) A French spy.

12. The military men leave the planning of nabbing Black Stone up to who?
(a) Scaife.
(b) Bullivant.
(c) Sir Harry.
(d) Hannay.

13. Hannay remembers the cryptic phrase "Thirty-Nine Steps" from Scudder's notebook, and also notations about "high tide" arriving when?
(a) At 9:17 p.m.
(b) At 11:17 p.m.
(c) At 10:17 p.m.
(d) At 12:17 a.m.

14. Hannay finds two younger men playing tennis, laughing and talking in perfect English. How does this affect Hannay?
(a) It crushes his spirit.
(b) It reinvigorates him.
(c) It confuses him.
(d) It worries him.

15. Who does Hannay tell about his suspicions?
(a) No one.
(b) The other men still having the meeting.
(c) Bullivant.
(d) The butler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in possession of the key intelligence wanted by the Black Stone?

2. In the morning he awakes to find three men combing the brush some distance away, doing what?

3. What happens when Hannay and Alloa meet eyes?

4. Hannay decides to go with his gut, and hours before Black Stone is to escape with the intelligence, Hannay does what?

5. Hannay waits until nightfall to do what?

(see the answer keys)

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