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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 37-39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The “doctor” who appears at Mr. Butler’s home in Chapters 37-39 speaks of what being present on Great Queen Street?
(a) Black Plague.
(b) Contagion.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Tuberculosis.

2. What does Edward Constable define in Chapter 38 as someone who is “rich and has no manners”?
(a) An intellectual.
(b) A debutante.
(c) A snob.
(d) An eccentric.

3. What play is Henry performing in currently in Chapter 25?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) King Lear.
(d) All’s Well that Ends Well.”

4. Who is the chief actor at the Lyceum Theatre and a guest at Mr. Buckle’s estate in Chapter 7?
(a) Wilf Partridge.
(b) Henry Hawthorne.
(c) Edward Constable.
(d) Samuel Laurence.

5. Tobias is said to have purchased the hand of a thief at a little shop where in Chapter 13?
(a) Tyburn.
(b) Lyceum.
(c) Wapping.
(d) Whitechapel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What school had Mercy briefly attended, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?

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

3. What is the name of the young carpenter’s apprentice that Tobias sees burned in the morgue in Chapter 34?

4. What physical curiosity is noted of the man in the red waistcoat both aboard the coach and outside the gin bar in Chapter 1?

5. Who was the master of Mr. Buckle’s home on Great Queen Street prior to Mr. Buckle?

(see the answer key)

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