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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that the professor views as difficult?
(a) Selling.
(b) Constructing.
(c) Buying components.
(d) Experimenting.

2. 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.

3. Although initially insisting he works independently, the professor eventually confesses that he recently had sold what?
(a) A bomb concealed in a backpack.
(b) A bomb concealed in a briefcase.
(c) A bomb concealed in a lunch basket.
(d) A bomb concealed in a varnish can.

4. What two things did Heat learn several months subsequent to his first encountering Mr. Verloc, when Heat again saw Mr. Verloc and the latter was followed?
(a) Mr. Verloc was both a spy and an explosives expert.
(b) Mr. Adolf Verloc's name and that he had gotten married that day.
(c) Mr. Verloc was a secret agent who lived in an affluent neighborhood.
(d) Mr. Verloc was Austrian and married to a woman seven years his senior.

5. What does Heat do when making his incomplete, initial report on the Greenwich Park explosion to the assistant commissioner and he is pressured to open up?
(a) Heat reveals his displeasure with his supervisor and nothing more.
(b) Heat maintains he has no information about Michaelis.
(c) Heat reveals the item he obtained from the coroner's office.
(d) Heat only reveals Mrs. Verloc was on the train from Maze Hill.

6. What is Stevie's age?
(a) Infant.
(b) Older than Winnie.
(c) Middle-aged.
(d) Younger than Mr. Verloc.

7. Whom does this story center on?
(a) A devoted husband, his beautiful and young wife, and her brother.
(b) A devoted husband, his older wife, and his son from a previous marriage.
(c) A devoted husband, his beautiful and young wife, and his brother.
(d) A hateful husband, his young and beautiful wife, and her son from a previous marriage.

8. What does Mr. Vladimir learn about Mr. Verloc that terribly disappoints him?
(a) Mr. Verloc is losing money running his pornography business.
(b) Mr. Verloc is having an affair with a bank clerk.
(c) Mr. Verloc is married.
(d) Mr. Verloc's marriage is not permanent.

9. What is Ossipon's opinion of Stevie?
(a) That while not exceptionally bright, he will learn a trade and do well.
(b) That he is simple-minded, but harmless to himself or others.
(c) That he is a degenerate, capable of becoming a criminal one day.
(d) That he is intelligent and likely to be a physician or scientist someday.

10. What does Heat tell the Assistant Commissioner that a witness spotted in Greenwich Park prior to the explosion that morning?
(a) A young, fair-haired woman and an older, stockier man.
(b) Two men, a fair-haired one and an older, stockier one.
(c) Two young men, an average, fair-haired one and a thinner, dark-haired one.
(d) Two middle-aged men, a thinner, dark-haired one and a stocky, fair-haired one.

11. What does The Professor tell Ossipon he carries in his pocket should the police try to arrest him?
(a) A knife.
(b) A detonator.
(c) Poison.
(d) A pistol.

12. What is it the professor tells Ossipon he must sometimes do in seeking his goal?
(a) Skip meals for a day or two, as bomb components are expensive.
(b) Rent a very small apartment and scrimp on money.
(c) Work various extra jobs to pay for bomb components.
(d) Seek funds from revolutionary groups.

13. What does Mr. Verloc do following the Red Committee meeting before going to bed?
(a) Takes a bath.
(b) Extinguishes the lights.
(c) Takes his daily walk to the Hampton Lake and back.
(d) Washes the dinner dishes.

14. Why is Heat annoyed at having to report to his supervisors?
(a) He resents that he does the work, yet they will get the credit.
(b) Heat received no aid from them to reach his current position and he resents they no longer directly investigate.
(c) He is rushed for time and does not like to submit to them.
(d) He wants to be left alone, but needs some assistance nonetheless.

15. Which nation is Mr. Vladimir an agent for?
(a) France.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Russia.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Verloc's response to his first contact with Mr. Vladimir?

2. Why is one member of the Red Committee having so much difficulty communicating with other members of the group?

3. Which phrase best describes Winnie?

4. What is Stevie's reaction upon hearing the Red Committee discussion that took place in the Verloc residence regarding social reform?

5. How is the assistant commissioner feeling about his decision to take his new law enforcement position in London?

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