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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will Hannay do right before the tea party?
(a) Leave the country.
(b) Warn the British government of the impending assassination attempt on Karolides.
(c) Hide in Scotland.
(d) Save Karolides himself.

2. These enemies are in fact probably waiting ___________ to nab him.
(a) Down the block.
(b) In Hannay's apartment.
(c) Next door.
(d) Outside.

3. Richard Hannay is a Scot turned _________.
(a) German.
(b) Irish.
(c) French.
(d) Briton.

4. How does Hannay lose control of the car?
(a) He is blinded by flying debris.
(b) The break lines are cut.
(c) He speeds down into a valley to try to evade a plane's gaze.
(d) The power steering goes out.

5. Fortune then smiles as Hannay by chance finds Scudder's black book buried where?
(a) On Scudder's body.
(b) On a bookshelf.
(c) In the trash.
(d) In his tobacco jar.

6. How do the rough men seem?
(a) Convinced.
(b) Angry.
(c) Confused.
(d) Worried.

7. Two rough-looking men have arrived at the inn asking questions. The innkeepers lies and tells them that Hannay had been at the inn, but had done what?
(a) Left unexpectedly.
(b) Gone to town for the day.
(c) Hidden in the rooms upstairs.
(d) Taken off the day before on a motorcycle.

8. What makes Hannay's departure quite public?
(a) A dog barks at him.
(b) The rough men chasing after him.
(c) The conductor yelling at him.
(d) A child pointing him out.

9. He waits until the milkman arrives in the morning, and then offers the youngster what?
(a) A flat to live in for his uniform.
(b) Money to wear his uniform.
(c) Money to borrow his truck.
(d) A ride to the train station.

10. Why has Hannay resolved to move back to the Cape?
(a) If he cannot find his family soon.
(b) If he cannot cure his boredom soon.
(c) If he cannot find housing soon.
(d) If he cannot find a job soon.

11. Where does Hannay find an article about Scudder's death, dubbed "The Portland Place Murder?"
(a) On a board in the train station.
(b) In a Scottish Review newspaper.
(c) In an old shepherd's daily newspaper.
(d) On a reward poster.

12. That the murderer ransacked the apartment tells Hannay what?
(a) The enemies are looking for Hannay's family.
(b) The enemies are looking for Hannay.
(c) The enemies were also looking for the black book.
(d) The enemies do not know what they are looking for.

13. Sir Harry is a _________, and he makes a poorly-spoken anti-war speech blasting the Tory party for creating a "German menace."
(a) Democrat.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Whig.

14. Scudder states that he is what?
(a) New to the neighborhood.
(b) Unable to pay his rent.
(c) From Germany.
(d) A dead man.

15. Why does Hannay hatch a scheme to escape his flat?
(a) He sees men outside his window.
(b) He figures his flat is being watched.
(c) He hears someone knocking on his door.
(d) He can see someone's shadow out in the hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Are the rough men fooled?

2. Arriving at a station he had been to the night before, Hannay must hide in the shadows from whom?

3. Scudder is __________ journalist and has toured much of Europe in that capacity.

4. He examines Scudder's black book, which appears to be coded with a cipher that requires what?

5. Hannay continues his ruse until when?

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