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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Act 3, Scenes 4-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does this person offer Nicholas?
(a) A job in a tavern.
(b) A ride back to London.
(c) A ride to Portmouth.
(d) The opportunity to act and to adapt new plays for the company, promising them each a pound a week.

2. Who represents the wealthy industrial classes?
(a) Kate, Mrs. Nickleby and Squeers.
(b) Crowl, Noggs and Brooker.
(c) Kate, Noggs and Brooker.
(d) Ralph, Crowl and Noggs.

3. What does Nicholas do as Mrs. Grudden sings a sentimental song?
(a) He cries.
(b) He sits silently.
(c) He joins her in the song.
(d) He makes his farewells and leaves with Smike.

4. The Kenwigs ask Nicholas to stay. How does he respond?
(a) He would be glad to stay.
(b) He cannot stay.
(c) He does not want to stay.
(d) He is tired, dirty, and wants to rest.

5. At the moment Kate left Ralph's, Ralph saw a resemblance to whom, in Kate's face?
(a) His dead younger brother, Kate's father.
(b) His father.
(c) A kind woman.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nicholas slip away after the wedding?

2. Why do Sir Mulberry Hawk and Lord Frederick Verisopht wake up groggily?

3. What list does Mrs. Squeers goes through?

4. What does Ralph do to the two people who have been dealing with the Mantalinis?

5. At the close of the first performance of Nicholas' new play, who visits him?

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