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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. Lillyvick react when Noggs leaves suddenly?
(a) Excited.
(b) Happy.
(c) Offended.
(d) Surprised.

2. What happened to the girl the Kenwigs had paid to watch the baby?
(a) She burned the dinner.
(b) She has run away.
(c) She had caught her hair on fire.
(d) She left the baby alone.

3. Describe Fanny and Tilda.
(a) Shy, timid young girls.
(b) Tough, angry women.
(c) Silly, spoiled snobs.
(d) Kind, and beautiful ladies.

4. What, again, upsets Fanny soon after she happily embraces Tilda?
(a) Nicholas leaves.
(b) Tilda tells her she does not like Nicholas.
(c) Tilda starts talking about Nicholas.
(d) Fanny sees Nicholas talking to another girl.

5. What does Nicholas do when he crumples to the floor?
(a) He screams.
(b) He faints.
(c) He feels ill.
(d) He sobs.

6. Nicholas returns despondently to Noggs' rooms. What does Noggs have for him?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Good news.
(c) A letter.
(d) Bad news.

7. What is odd about this place?
(a) Here it does not really have a name at all.
(b) It looks abandoned.
(c) It is very quiet.
(d) Everyone looks angry.

8. Melodramatic and overwrought, what does Mr. Mantalini do?
(a) He pulls out a gun with which to shoot the two.
(b) He gets a pair of scissors and acts like he is going to kill his wife.
(c) He gets a pair of scissors and threatens these two.
(d) He gets a pair of scissors and threatens to kill himself.

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

10. Where is Noggs expected?
(a) A welcome home party.
(b) A suprise party.
(c) An anniversary party.
(d) A birthday party.

11. Why does Bonney come to see Ralph?
(a) He has come to beg a favor of Ralph.
(b) He has come to request Ralph's investment in the muffin corporation.
(c) He owes Ralph money.
(d) He has come to apologize to Ralph for the muffin men's behavior.

12. As Mrs. Nickleby appears, Ralph announces that he has found a position for Kate working for whom?
(a) A weaver.
(b) A milliner and dressmaker.
(c) A carpenter.
(d) A blacksmith.

13. Paris challenges Romeo, they fight, and what happens?
(a) Paris is killed.
(b) Paris runs away.
(c) Paris kills Romeo.
(d) Romeo runs away.

14. What does Ralph do to the two people who have been dealing with the Mantalinis?
(a) He ridicules them.
(b) He gives them their wages and congratulates them on a job well done.
(c) He throws them out.
(d) He sends them home to their husbands.

15. The action returns to what scene?
(a) In which the Nurse tells Juliet Romeo is gone.
(b) In which Tybalt kills Mercutio.
(c) In which Romeo (played by Nicholas) is told that Juliet is dead, and vows with the help of the Apothecary to die next to her.
(d) In which Romeo and Juliet meet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Pupker gives Nicholas a list of things to do, how does Nicholas react?

2. By what is this man distracted?

3. The Kenwigs ask Nicholas to stay. How does he respond?

4. What other news does Friar Lawrence bring?

5. What does Noggs show Kate and Mrs. Nickleby?

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