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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 does Mary Oates go to see when she leaves her home in Chapter 77?
2. Mary tells Elizabeth that she gave her medicine in what, in Chapter 86?
3. Whose body does the Thief-taker say he found “when everyone said he was touring in the Pyrenees” in Chapter 67?
4. Whom does the Thief-taker say he found “who was taken from her mother’s arms” in Chapter 67?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What exchange takes place between Tobias and Dr. Grieves at Mr. Butler’s house in Chapter 50?
2. What leads to the violent conflict that takes place in Chapter 68? What do Jack and Tobias do afterward?
3. What discussion takes place between Jack and Mercy in Chapter 87?
4. What ailment is causing problems for Tobias’s infant son in Chapter 52? Who does he go to fetch for help?
5. What issues regarding money does Tobias deal with in Chapter 50?
6. Why does Mary go to the home of Mary Britten in Chapter 77?
7. What exchange takes place between Tobias and Jack in Chapter 55?
8. Where are Jack and Tobias going in Chapters 62-63? What exchange of secrets takes place on the journey?
9. What occurrences have shaped the prospects of Tobias Oates in Chapter 61?
10. What secret about Henry does Jack share with Constable in Chapter 47?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Charles Dickens and his fascination with psychology and the “Criminal Mind.” How did Dickens develop the characters from his novels? What historical evidence suggests that Dickens based these characters on real individuals? How faithful is the depiction of Tobias Oates in comparison with the history of Charles Dickens?
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 Jack’s early childhood as depicted in his letters to Henry Phipps. Where was Jack discovered as an infant? Who took the baby in? How much did Silas pay for Jack? Where did he take him?
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