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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What reaction does Heat's supervisor have upon initially hearing of Michaelis's connection with the Greenwich Park explosion investigation?
2. In the morgue, what does Heat find among the yet-to-be-identified remains retrieved from the Greenwich Park bombing scene?
3. What is Ossipon's opinion of Stevie?
4. 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.
5. What is it the professor tells Ossipon he must sometimes do in seeking his goal?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Mr. Verloc's attitude toward Mrs. Verloc's lone sibling?
2. What happens when Mr. Verloc is going around putting out the lights in the house after the Red Committee's meeting and he encounters his wife's sibling watching him?
3. Who is Ossipon?
4. How is Mr. Verloc's business establishment described?
5. What problems are faced by Winnie Verloc's lone, younger sibling?
6. Describe what act done by Chief Inspector Heat is detailed and defined as not particularly wise?
7. Provide a description of where Ossipon runs into the professor in Chapter 4.
8. What is Mr. Verloc's response to his meeting with Mr. Vladimir after he returns home?
9. What is Mr. Vladimir's response when Mr. Verloc tells him that what he seeks will cost money?
10. How is Winnie Verloc's appearance described?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 2, the reader discovers Mr. Verloc is a secret agent and later discovers he has been an informant. Examine in detail this and other instances of how Conrad approaches the theme of loyalty.
Essay Topic 2
The professor is never identified beyond his nickname, however, his character is a significant one in the story. Examine his encounter initially with Ossipon in Chapter 4 and once again in Chapter 13. Examine the professor's personality before and subsequent to the bomb explosion, and compare it to Ossipon's before and subsequent to the death of Winnie.
Essay Topic 3
Adolf Verloc is found to be a French spy by the second chapter. But it is not until Chapter 6 that the reader learns he has also been an informant for Chief Inspector Heat. By the end of Chapter 5 it is know that the bomb victim was not Heat as thought possible in Chapter 4, but who is it then? Examine how Conrad uses surprise and secrecy throughout his novel.
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