David Copperfield Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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David Copperfield Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to stay with David's family?
(a) Miss Murdstone, Mr. Murdstone's sister.
(b) Miss Betsey, David's great aunt.
(c) Steerforth, David's friend.
(d) Mr. Creakle, the headmaster from Salem House.

2. What does David find when he returns home for the holidays?
(a) His mother has given birth to another son.
(b) Mr. Murdstone is gone.
(c) His mother is dead.
(d) Miss Betsey will adopt him.

3. What does David often do while staying in Yarmouth?
(a) Cry.
(b) Visit Peggotty.
(c) Visit his old home, The Rookery.
(d) Get drunk.

4. What happens when Miss Betsey privately speaks with a man on the street who obviously disturbs her?
(a) She does not talk to a man on the street who obviously disturbs her.
(b) She cries to David about it.
(c) She returns agitated, with most of the money in her purse gone.
(d) She slaps the man.

5. What announcement at Peggotty's home is interrupted by David and Steerforth's arrival?
(a) Emily and Ham are engaged.
(b) Emily is moving to Australia.
(c) Peggotty is getting married.
(d) Emily is pregnant.

6. Why do the Micawbers have to leave Plymouth?
(a) Because Mrs. Micawber's family is unable to provide financial assistance.
(b) Because they get kicked out of their house.
(c) They do not leave Plymouth.
(d) Because they cannot stop fighting with each other.

7. Why does Steerforth want to accompany David to Yarmouth?
(a) Because he wants to be with David as much as possible.
(b) Because he wants to marry Emily.
(c) Because he needs to get away from his mother.
(d) Because it will be funny to see poor people in their natural environment.

8. Who does David re-encounter when he arrives in London?
(a) Peggotty.
(b) Traddles.
(c) Steerforth.
(d) Agnes.

9. How is David's mother's health affected by her marriage?
(a) She has a heart attack.
(b) It is not.
(c) She falls into bad health and seems unlikely to recover.
(d) She gets diabetes.

10. What does Peggotty object to?
(a) Mr. Murdstone courting David's mother.
(b) Working late.
(c) David going to school.
(d) Miss Betsey moving in.

11. What about David's birth offends his great aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood?
(a) His mother asks Miss Betsey to leave.
(b) The fact that he is not a girl.
(c) The fact that he is ugly.
(d) David cries when Miss Betsey holds him.

12. Whose presence disturbs David while he stays at the Wickfields' house?
(a) Mr. Wickfield.
(b) Dora.
(c) Uriah Heep, the clerk.
(d) Mrs. Wickfield.

13. What does David try to do after finishing school?
(a) Find a wife.
(b) Have a child.
(c) Buy a house.
(d) Find a suitable career.

14. When Mr. Dick visits David at school, what does he tell David has frightened Miss Betsey?
(a) The appearance of a strange man.
(b) A ghost.
(c) She thinks she is pregnant.
(d) A glass broke.

15. What student is first to return when the London school reopens after the holiday?
(a) Mell.
(b) Creakle.
(c) Steerforth.
(d) Tommy Traddles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does David sell most of his clothes on his journey?

2. What idea does David express as he leaves Steerforth's house in Chapter 29?

3. Who interrupts David's dinner party with the Micawbers and Traddles?

4. During David's tea outing, who passes the house so that David is forced to introduce him to his hosts?

5. What does Miss Betsey tell Mr. Murdstone in a letter?

(see the answer keys)

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