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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. Henry’s tutor that saved him from the orphanage disappeared from his life on the eve of Henry’s birthday to turn how old?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 21.

2. It is Jack’s plan to travel down the river until he and Tobias arrive where, in Chapter 71?
(a) Whitechapel.
(b) Bristol.
(c) Tyburn.
(d) Harrismith.

3. What is the name of the publisher that Tobias has gone to see about signing a contract for Tobias’s next novel about Jack Maggs in Chapter 61?
(a) Samuel Laurence.
(b) Silas Smith.
(c) Wilf Partridge.
(d) Cheery Entwhistle.

4. What novel is Elizabeth Warriner reading in the opening of Chapter 64?
(a) Captain Crumley.
(b) Castle Rackrent.
(c) Great Expectations.
(d) Adam Smith.

5. Where does Jack encounter Mercy in Chapter 84?
(a) In Henry Phipps’s house.
(b) In Mr. Butler’s attic.
(c) In the St. Jude Cemetery.
(d) In the corner tavern.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the beloved tutor that rescued Henry from the orphanage?

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

3. What does Elizabeth reveal to Tobias in Chapter 54?

4. When Mr. Buckle mentions the name Jack to Henry in Chapter 73, Henry’s pulse is said to be “racing as it had raced the day he had been delivered at the door of” whose orphanage?

5. The narrator states in the opening of Chapter 79, “Henry Phipps had always been excessively afraid of” what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What exchange takes place between Tobias and Dr. Grieves at Mr. Butler’s house in Chapter 50?

4. What physical conflict takes place in the climax of the novel in Chapters 88 and 89?

5. What discussion takes place between Mr. Butler, Mr. Makepeace, and Mr. Phipps in Chapter 79?

6. Whom do Jack and Tobias meet with in Chapter 66? At what location does the meeting take place?

7. What outcome is revealed for Jack and Mercy Larkin in the denouement of the novel?

8. In Jack’s recollections from his childhood, how does he describe the altercation that took place between Ma Britten, himself, and Sophina in Chapter 60?

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

10. What exchange takes place between Mercy and Jack in Chapter 84?

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