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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character enters the scene who is not in the original story of Romeo and Juliet?
(a) Romeo's Little Sister.
(b) Romeo's Little Brother.
(c) Juliet's Little Sister.
(d) Juliet's Little Brother.

2. Who is the older Nickleby son?
(a) John.
(b) Nicholas.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Smike.

3. Where do Nicholas, Squeers and the Boys arrive?
(a) In a small village.
(b) In London.
(c) At a tavern.
(d) At Dotheboys Hall.

4. As Kate arrives what are the owners of the shop doing?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Arguing.
(d) Crying.

5. Into what actress does Nicholas run?
(a) Miss Petowker.
(b) Miss Pennyworker.
(c) Miss Prowter.
(d) Miss Petticoater.

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

7. What song does the Crummles Company sing?
(a) A boring song.
(b) A sad song.
(c) A silly song.
(d) A happy song.

8. Back at Dotheboys, what is Squeers doing to Smike?
(a) Torturing him.
(b) Calling for him.
(c) Teasing him.
(d) Whipping him.

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

10. What does Smike tell Nicholas that he cannot remember?
(a) His life before Nicholas entered into it.
(b) When he first went to Dotheboys Hall.
(c) His parents.
(d) Two days together when he has not been afraid.

11. Seeing Kate getting more uncomfortable as the men get raunchier, Hawk interrupts, expressing what belief?
(a) Kate likes the attention.
(b) Kate is hoping someone in the room will pay attention to her.
(c) Kate wants to join in on the conversation.
(d) Kate should go home.

12. Who are the Curdles?
(a) Relatives to the Crummles.
(b) Neighbors.
(c) A poor family.
(d) Theater snobs.

13. Where does this play take place?
(a) Paris.
(b) New York City.
(c) Chicago.
(d) London.

14. Of what does Hawk accuse Ralph?
(a) Being romantically involved with Kate.
(b) Of keeping Kate all to himself.
(c) Using Kate as bait to lure Verisopht into a financial arrangement.
(d) Having a shy, boring girl as his hostess.

15. What does Kate refuse to do?
(a) Listen to the men.
(b) Go home.
(c) Play Hawk's game.
(d) Back down.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the moment Kate left Ralph's, Ralph saw a resemblance to whom, in Kate's face?

3. As Mrs. Nickleby appears, Ralph announces that he has found a position for Kate working for whom?

4. How is Kate welcomed by the women in the workroom?

5. What does Ralph tell Bonney that he is doing, regarding the company?

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