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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 does Arthur's mother say about the same stranger he saw earlier with Miss Wade?

2. What secret has Mrs. Clennam been hiding from Arthur for many years?

3. Who does Arthur think of while he sits in debtors' prison?

4. Where are the Meagles going to go see their daughter?

5. Who does Fanny hint to Amy is courting her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Little Dorrit report to Arthur about Minnie's marriage?

2. What is Mrs. General's character like?

3. How does Merdle die?

4. What does Mr. Dorrit instruct Amy to do, when he calls her to his quarters in Venice and speaks to her in front of Mrs. General?

5. Who does Dorrit recognize in his final days?

6. Why does the Dorrit family grant Amy permission to renew her friendship with Mrs. Gowan?

7. What does John Baptist Cavalletto tell Pancks and the Plornish family about why he is acting funny?

8. What does Minnie assume has happened to her dog?

9. Why is Dorrit so mortified to be seen with John Chivery?

10. What does Little Dorrit reflect on as her family begins to travel throughout Europe once they become wealthy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss: 1) why Mr. Merdle is able to perpetrate the high level of fraud that he does throughout "Little Dorrit" and 2) why he kills himself.

Essay Topic 2

Present an argument that Little Dorrit or Arthur is not as good of a character as the reader may initially come to believe.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze at least three literary devices Dickens uses to develop a character of your choosing.

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