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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which year does the actual incident on which this novel is based take place?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1948,
(d) 1949.

2. Where did The Professor get his nickname?
(a) He once taught chemistry at a secondary school.
(b) He once was a pharmaceutical technician.
(c) He once worked as an assistant at a technical school.
(d) He once taught chemistry at a university.

3. What does the professor tell Ossipon he will do if the police try to arrest him?
(a) Resist arrest and use his concealed pistol to shoot every police officer he can.
(b) Commit suicide by swallowing the poison he carries.
(c) Commit suicide by swallowing the poison he carries.
(d) Detonate a bomb killing everyone within fifty feet.

4. Following the meeting of Mr. Verloc with his Red Committee friends, what does Mrs. Verloc do?
(a) She talks her husband into bed.
(b) She goes to bed and discovers Mr. Verloc wants to be distracted by her affection.
(c) She goes to bed and finds Mr. Verloc already asleep.
(d) She sits in the bedroom until Stevie falls asleep.

5. Which member of the Red Committee expresses his opinion that Stevie is capable of becoming a criminal as he views her sibling as a degenerate?
(a) Ossipon.
(b) Michaelis.
(c) Yundt.
(d) Mr. Verloc.

Short Answer Questions

1. What goal does Mr. Vladimir hope to achieve?

2. What is it that the professor views as difficult?

3. Who is the spy named in the title of The Secret Agent?

4. What is one reason Mr. Verloc is unconcerned when he leaves his shop in the care of someone else?

5. Mr. Vladimir tells Mr. Verloc he reviewed his past reports, that they are inadequate as no action has been taken, and indicates that he views the latter's role toward achieving an explosion to be what?

(see the answer key)

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