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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. Who has managed to sort out the Wickfield estate and recover most of Miss Betsey's fortune?

2. Who does Dora specifically send for on her deathbed?

3. In Chapter 50, who summons David and takes him to a rooming house in London?

4. What does David assume about his relationship with Agnes?

5. What worries Agnes in Chapter 35?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does David realize in Chapter 58?

2. What does David learn about Traddles when he returns to London in Chapter 59?

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

4. What does Mrs. Micawber tell David in Chapter 49?

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

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

7. What does David do when he returns home in Chapter 40?

8. When David visits Agnes in Chapter 39, why does Mrs. Heep follow them around?

9. In Chapter 36, who finds work, and what work do they find?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the first person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would the novel be different if a different point of view were used?

Essay Topic 2

In what ways is the motif of mothers and mother figures used in "David Copperfield"? Which characters act in this type of position, and how do they affect the novel and the other characters in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Agnes and Dora. How are their relationships with David similar and different?

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