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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. In Chapter 34, Tobias says he is setting off for what location to write about a recent fire?

2. What is the name of the young carpenter’s apprentice that Tobias sees burned in the morgue in Chapter 34?

3. For how many gentlemen is Miss Mott cooking dinner in the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. Where does Henry Hawthorne have lunch with Tobias on April 23 in Chapter 25?

5. What is the profession of Mr. Tobias Oates?

Short Essay Questions

1. What assessment is reached regarding the household of Percy in Chapter 39?

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

3. What deal is made between Jack and Tobias in Chapter 13?

4. What does Jack do on Great Queen Street in Chapter 2? Who is he mistaken for?

5. How is Tobias’s household and family described in Chapter 10? What is Tobias’s secret that is revealed in the chapter?

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

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

8. How are the emotional and mental states of Mr. Butler’s servants described in Chapters 40-42?

9. Who arrives at the home of Percy in Chapter 37? How is this character described?

10. How is the character of Edward Constable described in Chapter 6? What does he bring to Jack?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the history of Australia as a penal colony for the British. When was Australia discovered and colonized? How did it come to be a penal colony? How was the colony structured? When was the penal colony dissolved? How do you think author Peter Carey’s Australian heritage influenced his writing of Jack Maggs?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the setting of Mr. Percy Buckle’s estate. How large is Mr. Buckle’s household? How many servants does the master keep? How does Jack fit in with this group of characters? What are his perceptions of them?

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