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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 doctor does Tobias write to when Jack appears requesting one for the butler in Chapter 50?
2. Tobias is compared to the hero of what novel written by him as he watches “his liberators pass him by while all the time berating himself for his own cowardice” in Chapter 76?
3. Henry meets with Mr. Butler and his lawyer in a subaltern of what regiment in Chapter 79?
4. What does Jack say he was known for “in the Colony” when speaking to Tobias in Chapter 62?
5. Whom does the Thief-taker say he found “who was taken from her mother’s arms” in Chapter 67?
Short Essay Questions
1. What ailment is causing problems for Tobias’s infant son in Chapter 52? Who does he go to fetch for help?
2. How is the meeting between Jack, Tobias, and the Thief-taker described in Chapter 67?
3. What secret about Henry does Jack share with Constable in Chapter 47?
4. What issues regarding money does Tobias deal with in Chapter 50?
5. What leads to the violent conflict that takes place in Chapter 68? What do Jack and Tobias do afterward?
6. What exchange takes place between Tobias and Jack in Chapter 55?
7. Why does Mary go to the home of Mary Britten in Chapter 77?
8. What physical conflict takes place in the climax of the novel in Chapters 88 and 89?
9. Whom do Jack and Tobias meet with in Chapter 66? At what location does the meeting take place?
10. What does Jack discover in Tobias’s notebook in Chapters 73 and 74? How does Jack respond?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the setting of Brighton and the imagery depicted of it in the novel. Why does Tobias Oates go first to the morgue to cover his story of the fire? What impressions does Tobias have of the children that he finds there?
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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