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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. Verloc feel upon returning from his trip taken shortly after his mother-in-law moved into a charity home?
(a) He can now handle new and old matters without a problem.
(b) While not forgotten, he is no longer preoccupied by his troubles.
(c) He remains preoccupied by his troubles as he was before.
(d) He has set his troubles completely aside and out of his mind.

2. What does Mr. Verloc operate?
(a) A pornography shop.
(b) A butcher shop.
(c) A jewelry shop.
(d) A tobacco shop.

3. The Secret Agent is a novel centered on the attempt in 1894 to destroy what?
(a) The London Bridge.
(b) Trafalgar Square.
(c) The Greenwich Observatory.
(d) Buckingham Palace.

4. Which member of the International Red Committee rambles at the beginning of their meeting?
(a) Michaelis.
(b) Yundt.
(c) Mr. Verloc.
(d) Ossipon.

5. Before Mr. Verloc acted as an informant, who initially followed him to his pornography business?
(a) Heat himself.
(b) An assigned cop.
(c) Mr. Vladimir himself.
(d) Baron Stott-Wartenheim.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Mr. Vladimir propose Mr. Verloc enlist in order to accomplish Vladimir's bomb plot?

2. What does a hand aboard the steamer find laying on the seat from which the woman who disappears over the rail was last seen?

3. Where do Mr. Wurmt and Mr. Verloc have their single meeting in the story?

4. Where did Mr. Verloc live before he got married?

5. Which phrase best describes Mr. Verloc?

(see the answer key)

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