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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which phrase best describes Stevie?
(a) A simpleminded individual.
(b) An astute individual.
(c) A brilliant individual.
(d) An average individual.

2. Where does Ossipon encounter the professor on the day of the Greenwich Park bombing?
(a) In a restaurant.
(b) In an underground beer hall.
(c) In a dining hall.
(d) In a café.

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

4. Who is the patroness of Michaelis?
(a) A good friend of the assistant commissioner's wife.
(b) The wife of the secretary of state.
(c) Someone the assistant commissioner's wife merely knows of.
(d) The wife of the assistant commissioner's supervisor.

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) Yundt.
(b) Mr. Verloc.
(c) Ossipon.
(d) Michaelis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Verloc stipulate will be required to carry out Vladimir's bomb plot?

2. In which year does the actual incident on which this novel is based take place?

3. How do The Professor and Ossipon part on the day of the Greenwich Park explosion?

4. What does Heat tell the Assistant Commissioner that a witness spotted in Greenwich Park prior to the explosion that morning?

5. What causes Stevie extreme difficulty in maintaining a job?

(see the answer key)

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