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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. What does David often do while staying in Yarmouth?

2. What is Mr. Murdstone doing when David runs into him in the midst of making his legal rounds?

3. When is Peggotty fired?

4. Who comes to stay with David's family?

5. When Miss Mowcher arrives at the Peggotty house, what does she explain that she first suspected?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe David's dinner party in Chapter 28.

2. Describe the conversation between David and Agnes in Chapter 25.

3. What does Ham tell David about Emily in Chapter 31?

4. How does Mrs. Steerforth react to learning her son has run away with Emily?

5. What does Miss Betsey suggest David pursue as a career, and why?

6. What do you think about Miss Betsey's conversation with the Murdstones?

7. While David visits Traddles, who arrives and what do they tell David?

8. Why does David's mother die, and how/when does David find out?

9. How does Littimer make David feel?

10. What happens when David is having tea with the Heeps?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast David and Steerforth.

Essay Topic 2

How is physical beauty used to correspond to moral good in this novel? Which characters demonstrate the use of this motif?

Essay Topic 3

How is speech used to indicate social class in "David Copperfield"? Providing specific examples from the text, which characters are evidence of this motif? What social classes are represented by differences in speech?

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