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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. How does Winnie learn Stevie was killed in the bombing earlier that day at Greenwich Park?
(a) When Heat figures out it was Winnie's brother who was killed, he then delivers this news to her in person.
(b) Winnie listened through the keyhole between the parlor and the kitchen when Heat interviewed her husband.
(c) Heat shows her Stevie's overcoat name tag and she reads the newspaper article about the bombing.
(d) Winnie determines herself it was Stevie as her husband returned late without him and was acting strangely.

2. Having returned to her residence with Ossipon on the evening she murdered Mr. Verloc, where does Winnie see that the light remains on?
(a) In the shop.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) In her bedroom.
(d) In the parlor.

3. What does Winnie request of her husband in response to his decision to go outside on the afternoon of his first day back from his trip?
(a) That he let Stevie accompany him along.
(b) That he let Stevie go with him, as her brother is not allowed out unaccompanied.
(c) That he let Winnie and Stevie visit their mother.
(d) That he let both Winnie and Stevie accompany him as a family.

4. What does Mr. Verloc attempt to convince his wife of concerning their relationship in their conversation after Heat departs their home?
(a) That he has done everything he could to support her and her family and that should be sufficient.
(b) How deeply in love he is with her and that should be sufficient for now.
(c) How deeply in love he is with her and will do anything to make Winnie's loss up to her.
(d) How they will be able to sell the shop and live freely in the country without further troubles as he has been granted immunity for his testimony.

5. What does the assistant commissioner observe at the restaurant he has dinner at on the evening of the Greenwich Park explosion?
(a) There are few customers and he will be able to finish quickly.
(b) It is crowded, so he is able to blend in.
(c) All the customers appear lacking a nationality.
(d) Many patrons are speaking the language of the restaurant's nationality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Assistant Commissioner go after leaving his office early in the evening of the Greenwich Park blast?

2. With the fear of the gallows looming ahead of her, what is it Winnie initially decides to do on the night of Mr. Verloc's death?

3. Winnie imagines herself being put to death for her husband's murder and falling how many feet from the gallows with a rope around her neck?

4. On the evening of Mr. Verloc's death, Ossipon suggests they take a midnight train away, however, Winnie insists on returning to the shop saying she recalls what?

5. After assuring Winnie that things will turn out all right in their escape, what does Ossipon do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it the cab driver complains about at the house and what is the sibling's reaction?

2. Where does the assistant commissioner go for his evening meal and what catches his attention?

3. When Ossipon jumps from the moving train and abandons Mrs. Verloc with no funds, what does he tell the railway workers who gather around him?

4. What action does Mr. Verloc take when Mrs. Verloc goes upstairs following her confrontation with him in the kitchen after she learned of Stevie's death?

5. How does Chapter 8 conclude with regard to Mrs. Neale?

6. What does the assistant commissioner do upon completion of his meeting with Sir Ethelred, and what does he encounter?

7. What are two objections Mrs. Verloc has toward Mrs. Neale?

8. Who does the assistant commissioner go to see at the start of Chapter 7? What figure of speech is used to compare these two figures? And what does the person the assistant commission visits express as his initial concern?

9. What is the assistant commissioner watching at the conclusion of Chapter 7 and what does he observe?

10. What is Mr. Verloc's disposition at the beginning of Chapter 9?

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