I would research, Lin, however I could. Surprising the number of things one can find out that way. You should be able to find out an agent's genre and commission rate that way, at least. Also the years of experience of the particular agent. The term will be in the contract.
Some agents give you a question-answer time before you sign the contract, but a set of nine often rhetorical questions seems to be stretching it a bit far. I would think an agent would wonder why you're wasting their time with a query if you haven't at least found out something about them first.
By the way, it also seems counter-productive to worry about what one will say when the agent supposedly offers one a contract, when the book has yet even to be finished.
Recall that only about 1% of completed manuscripts are accepted by agents on average, and we can assume that a small percentage of works in progress become completed manuscripts. See for example "So You Want to Write a Novel" on this board. Suppose 5% of ongoing manuscripts are finished, in general. Yours might be one of those, but that would mean that 5 ten-thousandths of novels now in progress will ultimately see their way to an agent. Those are steep odds.
