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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is said to have painted a portrait of Tobias in 1838?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Samuel Laurence.

2. In what year was John Sheppard said to have been hanged in Chapter 13?
(a) 1659.
(b) 1724.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1799.

3. Tobias is said in Chapter 13 to have ambitions to become “a novelist who might topple” who himself?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Shelley.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Thackeray.

4. What is the name of Mercy’s mother?
(a) Mary Larkin.
(b) Sarah Larkin.
(c) Elizabeth Larkin.
(d) Marjorie Larkin.

5. To whom does Jack pen a letter in Chapter 21?
(a) Silas Smith.
(b) Henry Phipps.
(c) Wilf Partridge.
(d) Mercy Larkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Mercy’s father?

2. What is the secret that Tobias is said to harbor in Chapter 10?

3. How many cats did Mr. Buckle inherit along with his house on Great Queen Street?

4. The narrator notes in Chapter 25 that there are what “in all crooked businesses”?

5. When Tobias offers to help Jack with his inner demons in Tobias’s office in Chapter 13, Jack replies, “But what is it to you, Sir? It is my pain after all.” What is Tobias’s response?

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