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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. Creakle run the school?
(a) Kindly with all of his students loving him.
(b) With his wife's help.
(c) Mr. Creakle does not run the school.
(d) By inspiring fear in his students.

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

3. 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 slaps the man.
(d) She returns agitated, with most of the money in her purse gone.

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

5. What boarding school does David attend in London?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Salem House.
(c) Mr. Creakle's Boarding School for Boys.
(d) Canterbury Inn.

6. When Miss Mowcher arrives at the Peggotty house, what does she explain that she first suspected?
(a) That Littimer planned to kidnap Emily.
(b) That Emily was pregnant.
(c) That David was courting Emily.
(d) That Steerforth wanted to marry Emily.

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

8. Who is suspicious about Steerforth at Steerforth's house?
(a) Mrs. Steerforth.
(b) David.
(c) Rosa Dartle.
(d) Littimer.

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

10. Why does Littimer bring Miss Mowcher to Steerforth?
(a) To give Steerforth a hair treatment.
(b) To gossip with Steerforth.
(c) To tell Steerforth gossip about David.
(d) To be Steerforth's friend.

11. What does Miss Betsey decide to do about David?
(a) Kick him out on the street.
(b) Accept him as her ward.
(c) Send him home with the Murdstones.
(d) Beat him.

12. What does David learn on his birthday?
(a) That he is being expelled from Salem House.
(b) That his mother has died.
(c) That his baby brother has died.
(d) That his father is still alive.

13. Who helps execute Barkis' will?
(a) Peggotty.
(b) David.
(c) Traddles.
(d) Mr. Wickfield.

14. What does Agnes confess to being worried about before David leaves Canterbury?
(a) Her job and her boyfriend.
(b) Her father's drinking problem and Uriah Heep's influence.
(c) Her dog and her cat.
(d) Her hair is falling out.

15. What does David learn about Emily shortly after arriving in Yarmouth?
(a) She is engaged.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She has been apprenticed to the tailor shop as a dressmaker.
(d) She has died.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Steerforth insult so badly that this person resigns his post immediately?

2. Two days later, how does David feel about his behavior to Agnes while he was drunk?

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

4. How long after his father's death is David born?

5. When Miss Betsey visits David in Chapter 34, what does she tell him?

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