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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Knowing their final destination, he narrows the geographical possibilities to what coast?
(a) The west.
(b) The east.
(c) The south.
(d) The north.

2. Hannay stumbles across _________ and feels his best chance is to hide inside.
(a) A store.
(b) An abandoned warehouse.
(c) A remote house.
(d) A barn.

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

4. Once in the dovecot, what does Hannay do?
(a) He plots his escape.
(b) He makes a call on his cell phone.
(c) He blacks out again.
(d) He cries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hannay do to the man who yells, "Murderer?"

2. Where does Sir Harry's important political godfather, Sir Walter Bullivant, live?

3. What do they remember about Alloa?

4. How does Hannay feel about not being a part of the meeting?

5. Hannay remembers the cryptic phrase "Thirty-Nine Steps" from Scudder's notebook, and also notations about "high tide" arriving when?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Bullivant and Hannay learn about the conspiracy plot?

2. What takes place during the time in which Hannay decides to spy on the men in Trafalgar Lodge and when he rings the doorbell?

3. Now locked in a room and guarded, what does Hannay decide to do?

4. From where will the Germans leave England? How do the men come to this conclusion?

5. How does Scudder's black book become useful again?

6. What plan to stop the Germans do the military men have left?

7. How do the men learn about a possible destination?

8. What leads to Hannay getting into a fight and being pursued by the police?

9. How does Hannay come to know that the final destination of the Germans is along the east coast and has thirty-nine steps, perhaps leading to the beach?

10. What takes place prior to Hannay posing as a fisherman?

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