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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book the Second, Chapters VIII - XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mr. Merdle's apparent financial situation?
(a) He is very wealthy.
(b) He had money but lost it.
(c) He has always been very poor.
(d) He doesn't care about money one way or the other.

2. Who is Mrs. General?
(a) A spy Arthur sent along to watch over the Dorrits.
(b) The new governess for the Dorrit family.
(c) Amy's new best friend.
(d) The new baby in the Dorrit family.

3. What does Mrs. Cowan think about Henry?
(a) That he is too good for her daughter.
(b) That he will never amount to much.
(c) That he is gay.
(d) That he is secretly in love with her.

4. What will happen to Henry's debts as a result of his marriage to Minnie?
(a) He must repay them before the marriage can take place.
(b) They will be paid.
(c) They will be condemned to poverty until he can pay the loans back.
(d) They will disappear because of laws during the time.

5. What relationship of Amy's particularly suffers once her family becomes wealthy?
(a) Her relationship with her brother.
(b) Her relationship with her mother.
(c) Her relationship with her father.
(d) Her relationship with her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rigaud go when he escapes from prison?

2. What reason does Arthur give himself as why he goes to visit Flora?

3. Where does Rigaud meet Cavalletto?

4. What do the residents of the Bleeding Heart Yard think of Merdle?

5. Who is Lion?

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