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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 Mercy discover left behind on Mr. Butler’s desk after Jack has left the room at the end of Chapter 42?

2. Chapter 17 begins on Tuesday morning on what date?

3. How much money did Jack’s benefactor pay to take his naked body when he was found as an infant under the London Bridge?

4. What is the name of the lawyer that had brought Mr. Buckle his “Great Good Fortune”?

5. Who was the master of Mr. Buckle’s home on Great Queen Street prior to Mr. Buckle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Jack and Percy go in Chapter 22? Why?

2. How is the setting for the novel established in Chapter 1? When and where does the story begin?

3. How is Jack’s demeanor when he awakens in Chapter 31? What does Jack learn from Edward Constable?

4. What causes the confrontation between Jack and Percy Butler in Chapter 17?

5. Who is the guest of honor at Mr. Buckle’s house in Chapter 7? How is this character described?

6. What does Jack write about his first experience with thievery in his letter to Henry in Chapter 26?

7. What does the reader learn about the relationship between Mr. Butler and Mercy in Chapter 30? What does Jack reveal to Mr. Butler in this chapter?

8. What does Jack do after the departure of the visitor in Mr. Butler’s home in Chapter 40?

9. What happens when Edward Constable confronts Henry in Chapter 45?

10. How is the study of Tobias described in Chapter 13? What eccentricities fill his study?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the history of Franz Mesmer, mesmerism, Animal Magnetism, and Charles Dickens’s associations with mesmerism and Animal Magnetism. What works did Dickens write which addressed these practices? What were his opinions on their validity? How are these concepts portrayed in Jack Maggs?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the reactions of Percy Butler, Tobias Oates, Elizabeth Warriner, and Mary Oates to the first hypnosis of Jack Maggs. What is discovered about Jack’s history through the hypnosis? What do these characters decide to do about Jack Maggs? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the setting of Islington and Jack’s life with Mary Britten, Sophina, Tom, and Silas Smith there. How does Jack feel about each of these characters? How does the setting of Islington compare with the previous home of Jack’s family?

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