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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The bomb The Professor carries on his person at all times is designed to kill anyone within how many feet of him?
(a) Twenty-five feet.
(b) One hundred feet.
(c) Fifty feet.
(d) Seventy-five feet.

2. Whom does Mr. Vladimir propose Mr. Verloc enlist in order to accomplish Vladimir's bomb plot?
(a) Former military explosives experts that Mr. Verloc knows.
(b) Mr. Verloc's International Red Committee friends.
(c) Mr. Verloc's family.
(d) Other secret agents that Mr. Verloc is acquainted with.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Verloc's shop display to draw in customers?

2. What does Red Committee group member Yundt view as being cannibalistic?

3. What is Mr. Verloc's usual schedule?

4. The Secret Agent is a novel centered on the attempt in 1894 to destroy what?

5. What does the professor say his sole goal in life is?

Short Essay Questions

1. As described at the conclusion of Chapter 5, what habit does the Assistant Commissioner have that comforts him the most?

2. How is Michaelis described?

3. How might the character known as the professor be described?

4. How is Mr. Verloc described at the start of Chapter 2?

5. How is the individual whom the professor encounters in the alley at the beginning of Chapter 5 described?

6. Provide a description of where Ossipon runs into the professor in Chapter 4.

7. What is it Mr. Vladimir seeks from Mr. Verloc?

8. Describe what act done by Chief Inspector Heat is detailed and defined as not particularly wise?

9. What is Mr. Verloc's attitude toward Mrs. Verloc's lone sibling?

10. Who is Ossipon?

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