View a FREE sample

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. Who does Jack say is heartbroken when he is under Tobias’s hypnotism in Chapter 55?

3. At what time does Jack say he will return to Tobias’s door in the morning in Chapter 84?

4. What is the title of the Character Sketch that Tobias writes for the Observer in Chapter 50?

5. On what river do Tobias and Jack escape in Chapter 70?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jack describe his first meeting with Henry Phipps in Chapter 71?

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

3. What does Jack discover in Tobias’s notebook in Chapters 73 and 74? How does Jack respond?

4. How does Jack apprehend Tobias in Chapter 76? Where does he lead him?

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

6. How do Jack and Tobias escape Gloucester in Chapter 70? What dangers do they face?

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

8. What ailment is causing problems for Tobias’s infant son in Chapter 52? Who does he go to fetch for help?

9. Where are Jack and Tobias going in Chapters 62-63? What exchange of secrets takes place on the journey?

10. How is the meeting between Jack, Tobias, and the Thief-taker described in Chapter 67?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the character of Dr. Hardwick in the narrative. How is Dr. Hardwick’s home described when the cabbie takes Tobias there? How does Dr. Grieves treat the infant John Oates? What does he demand for payment? Why?

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 855 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample