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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. Heat's supervisor promptly takes which action upon hearing of Michaelis's name in connection with the Greenwich Park bomb investigation?
2. What does The Professor tell Ossipon he carries in his pocket should the police try to arrest him?
3. Where is Mr. Verloc's shop located?
4. Who is Mr. Wurmt?
5. How is the assistant commissioner feeling about his decision to take his new law enforcement position in London?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Mrs. Verloc's younger sibling's spare time occupied and where?
2. What is Mr. Verloc's response to his meeting with Mr. Vladimir after he returns home?
3. Provide a description of where Ossipon runs into the professor in Chapter 4.
4. 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?
5. What is it Mr. Vladimir seeks from Mr. Verloc?
6. What problems are faced by Winnie Verloc's lone, younger sibling?
7. What is Mr. Vladimir's response when Mr. Verloc tells him that what he seeks will cost money?
8. Why is it Mr. Verloc is able to leave his business in the hands of his brother-in-law in the morning?
9. What is Ossipon's view of Mrs. Verloc's sibling?
10. How is Winnie Verloc's appearance described?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Honesty, or lack of it, is a trait that is touched upon repeatedly by Conrad in this work. Some lacked virtually any at all. Others' levels of honesty were determined by what they were seeking. Examine the trait of honesty in the characters in this tale and what governed it.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast Conrad's tale upon the actual bombing around which it is loosely based. What are the similarities? What are the differences? Did Conrad's work warrant the complaint it received?
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