The Secret Agent Quiz

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What is it that Ossipon wonders about for a brief time subsequent to learning of the Greenwich Park explosion and suspecting who was killed? (from Chapter 4)

What will the extended family of the bomb victim do?

What will the bomb victim's spouse now do?

If there are any, what will happen to the bomb victim's children?

What will the group the bomb victim belonged to do?

As they prepare to escape from Lonaon, how much of Mr. Verloc's money does Winnie give to Ossipon, and what does she tell him aids in the use of it? (from Chapter 12)

She gives him half of her husband's money and stipulates it is untraceable.

She gives him all but a little of her husband's money and stipulates she does not know if it is traceable, but he banked out of the country.

She gives him all of her husband's money and stipulates it is untraceable.

She gives him part of her husband's money and stipulates it is untraceable as he banked in Switzerland.

In the Silenus, Ossipon pulls out a newspaper clipping he says is ten days old. What is the newspaper clipping about? (from Chapter 13)

The arrest of the French first secretary for espionage and terrorism.

The death of a woman who threw herself over the rail of a steamship.

The death of a man stabbed in the parlor of his own home.

The death of a young man killed in the explosion at Greenwich Park.

In chapter 7, what does the assistant commissioner ensure when he returns to his office following his evening meeting with the secretary of state? (from Chapter 7)

That surveillance is placed on the Verloc shop.

That no one can observe the assistant commissioner executing his plan.

That Heat has already departed for his home.

That an investigator is assigned to follow Heat.

When the assistant commissioner speaks with him early in the evening of the Greenwich Park blast, the secretary of state is in what condition? (from Chapter 7)

Fine, as a secretary handled many administrative matters.

Well-rested, having taken a nap in the afternoon.

Acceptable, as it had been an easy workday.

Exhausted, having worked throughout the entire day.