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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Dora stop communicating with David in Chapter 38?
(a) She marries someone else.
(b) She does not stop communicating with David.
(c) She does not want to hurt her father.
(d) She is grief stricken over her father's death.

2. Why does Dora faint?
(a) David tells her that he is going to marry someone else.
(b) David asks her about budgeting and cooking.
(c) Mr. Spenlow catches David and Dora together.
(d) She is sick.

3. What worries Agnes in Chapter 35?
(a) Her pending wedding to Uriah Heep.
(b) David's love for Dora.
(c) David's drunken behavior.
(d) Uriah Heep's influence over her father.

4. Who receives a letter from Mrs. Micawber detailing Mr. Micawber's violent and secretive behavior?
(a) David.
(b) Mr. Dick.
(c) Traddles.
(d) Miss Betsey.

5. What does David refrain from telling the Micawbers, Mr. Peggotty, and Emily about in Chapter 57?
(a) That he wishes they would stay.
(b) How much he misses Dora.
(c) His love for Agnes.
(d) Ham and Steerforth's deaths.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do David, Miss Betsey, Mr. Dick, and Traddles meet in Chapter 52?

2. In Chapter 64, the narrator reveals that all of the characters are happy except which one?

3. What happens with Emily in Chapter 51?

4. What does David ask Agnes to promise in Chapter 39?

5. Who tells David about what is going on with Steerforth and Emily in Chapter 46?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does David manage to meet with Dora in Chapter 41?

2. What is the major problem that David discovers about his marriage to Dora in Chapter 44?

3. How is Mr. Peggotty reunited with Emily?

4. Why does David travel, and where does he go?

5. What does David hear about Agnes in Chapter 60?

6. After learning of his newly impoverished state, what does David decide to do, and what happens as a result?

7. How does the action in Chapter 64 sum up the lives of all the characters in "David Copperfield"?

8. How does Dora react when David tells her of his poverty?

9. How does Rosa Dartle react to Steerforth's death?

10. Who travels in Chapter 57, and where do they go?

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