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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. Mary tells Elizabeth that she gave her medicine in what, in Chapter 86?

2. How many of the abortion pills does Tobias give to Elizabeth downstairs as Jack waits for him in the study in Chapter 82?

3. The doctor that comes to see Spinks says that he will put down what as the cause of death on the death certificate in Chapter 50?

4. Where had Tobias spent his fourth year at a home for orphaned boys?

5. The narrator states in the opening of Chapter 82, “It had always been Tobias’s method to approach his subject by way of” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is discovered about Elizabeth Warriner’s condition in Chapter 86?

2. What leads to the violent conflict that takes place in Chapter 68? What do Jack and Tobias do afterward?

3. How has Tobias gone about securing money to cover his debts in Chapters 56 and 57?

4. How is the meeting between Jack, Tobias, and the Thief-taker described in Chapter 67?

5. How does Jack apprehend Tobias in Chapter 76? Where does he lead him?

6. What occurrences have shaped the prospects of Tobias Oates in Chapter 61?

7. What exchange takes place between Tobias and Jack in Chapter 55?

8. What takes place in Tobias’s house in Chapter 82? Where does Jack go when he leaves?

9. What ailment is causing problems for Tobias’s infant son in Chapter 52? Who does he go to fetch for help?

10. What does Jack discover in Tobias’s notebook in Chapters 73 and 74? How does Jack respond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and analyze the character of Silas Smith in the narrative. How old is Silas Smith? What is his principle “occupation”? How does Silas go about apprenticing Jack Maggs as a thief?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the history of Franz Mesmer, mesmerism, Animal Magnetism, and Charles Dickens’s associations with mesmerism and Animal Magnetism. What works did Dickens write which addressed these practices? What were his opinions on their validity? How are these concepts portrayed in Jack Maggs?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the history of Australia as a penal colony for the British. When was Australia discovered and colonized? How did it come to be a penal colony? How was the colony structured? When was the penal colony dissolved? How do you think author Peter Carey’s Australian heritage influenced his writing of Jack Maggs?

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