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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When asked by Ossipon to describe the person who purchased the device, what is the professor's response?
(a) He provides Ossipon a first name.
(b) He provides a detailed description.
(c) He provides Ossipon a surname.
(d) He provides a vague description.

2. Where is Mr. Verloc's shop located?
(a) Toward the front of his large, stone home.
(b) It covers the entire first floor of his frame home.
(c) Toward the front of his small, brick home.
(d) In a shop one block from his brick home.

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

4. What is Mr. Verloc's response to his first contact with Mr. Vladimir?
(a) He is only slightly concerned.
(b) He is quite pleased.
(c) He could not care less.
(d) He is quite troubled.

5. While speaking with the Professor, Ossipon gains information that leads him to believe who was blown up in the Greenwich Park explosion?
(a) Mr. Verloc.
(b) Yundt
(c) Michaelis.
(d) Mrs. Verloc.

6. Who did Heat personally assure the month prior to the Greenwich Park explosion that no terrorist acts would occur anytime soon because Heat is watching every known terrorist?
(a) The king.
(b) The prime minister.
(c) The mayor.
(d) The secretary of state.

7. What does Mr. Verloc stipulate will be required to carry out Vladimir's bomb plot?
(a) A modest sum of money.
(b) No further funds at all.
(c) A large sum of money.
(d) No further funds than the amount he receives monthly.

8. What is the professor's position on the social issues that spurs Mr. Verloc and his Red Committee friends?
(a) He concurs that a static economic state is the most important aspect.
(b) He is not interested in those social concerns.
(c) He agrees that bombing scientific institutions is essential.
(d) He also believes that action through the arts, education, and the sciences is key.

9. Why is one member of the Red Committee having so much difficulty communicating with other members of the group?
(a) He is reluctant to participate in the bombing for fear of imprisonment.
(b) He was confined for so long.
(c) He has a shy personality.
(d) He is not as well educated as the other members.

10. 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.

11. What are the items usually sold when young men come in the shop for their first time and find Winnie at the counter?
(a) Expensive pipes and cigarette holders.
(b) Small pets such as puppies and kittens.
(c) Engagement and wedding rings.
(d) Inks and plain papers.

12. Subsequent to his initial encounter, how long ago did Heat first approach Mr. Verloc and offer protection of his business packages from discovery if he would provide Heat information?
(a) Nine years ago.
(b) Five years ago.
(c) Two years ago.
(d) Seven years ago.

13. 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. Verloc was a secret agent who lived in an affluent neighborhood.
(c) Mr. Adolf Verloc's name and that he had gotten married that day.
(d) Mr. Verloc was Austrian and married to a woman seven years his senior.

14. Where does the professor initially encounter Chief Inspector Heat while the latter is conducting his inspection of the Greenwich Park explosion?
(a) In the vicinity of Greenwich Park.
(b) In a Scotland Yard interrogation room.
(c) In a beer hall near the professor's residence.
(d) In an alley between two busy streets.

15. Where did Heat have his initial encounter with Mr. Verloc some time ago?
(a) In Greenwich Park.
(b) In German Ambassador Baron Stott-Wartenheim's bathroom.
(c) In French Ambassador Baron Stott-Wartenheim's bathroom.
(d) In Mr. Verloc's shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his conversation with the professor on the afternoon of the Greenwich Park explosion, Ossipon expresses how he was acquainted with the individual he assumes was killed and describes the person's sole talent as what?

2. What reaction does Heat's supervisor have upon initially hearing of Michaelis's connection with the Greenwich Park explosion investigation?

3. What does Mr. Verloc do when he returns home immediately after the meeting with Mr. Vladimir in which he learns his monthly income checks are in jeopardy.

4. Whom does this story center on?

5. What is Winnie's attitude toward Stevie?

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