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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened within two weeks of the trip?
(a) Smike has died.
(b) Smike becomes too ill to move.
(c) Smike is depressed.
(d) Smike has become healthier.

2. How does Squeers encourage Peg into handing over the deed?
(a) He bribes her.
(b) He threatens her.
(c) He seduces her.
(d) He blackmails her.

3. How does Ralph believe they can take revenge on Nicholas?
(a) By catching him and having him put in jail.
(b) By marrying Kate.
(c) By stealing his inheritance.
(d) By finding the person who took the deed, taking the deed from her, and destroying it.

4. While passing a theatre on the way, what does Nicholas notice about it?
(a) It is playing host to the Crummles Acting Company.
(b) It has closed.
(c) That his name is on the sign.
(d) It is performing his play.

5. Ralph orders Noggs to get a coach to take them to the Strand, which Noggs realizes will take Ralph where?
(a) To Hawk.
(b) To John.
(c) To the home of Nickleby and Kate.
(d) To Nicholas.

6. What does the company recount?
(a) The action that took place in the previous play.
(b) Who forgot what lines.
(c) How the play has changed from the original.
(d) The performances of the actors.

7. What does Nicholas vow?
(a) To find his father.
(b) To kill Ralph.
(c) To write to Ralph and sever their relationship completely.
(d) To marry Madeline.

8. How does Squeers feel about Snawley?
(a) Angry.
(b) Upset.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Sad.

9. Why does Nicholas travel through the poorest and most degraded section of London?
(a) To complete his errand for the Cheerybles.
(b) He is lost.
(c) To see what life is like in this section of London.
(d) To help the poor.

10. In Hawk's apartments, Pluck and Pyke inform him of what?
(a) Nicholas' determination to kill Ralph.
(b) Nicholas is marrying Madeline.
(c) Rumors that Nicholas is hunting for Hawk.
(d) Rumors of the encounter at the coffee house are all over London.

11. What does Smike ask Nicholas, when he has gone with them to their home in the country?
(a) To be left alone.
(b) To be buried in the family cemetery.
(c) To be taken home.
(d) To be buried as close as possible to the tree.

12. Back in Portsmouth, the Crummles Company has gathered for what?
(a) A meal.
(b) A performance.
(c) A party.
(d) A meeting.

13. Who does Mr. Snawley say he is?
(a) Madeline's father.
(b) Fanny's uncle.
(c) Smike's father.
(d) Nicholas' father.

14. Where are Nicholas and Kate headed?
(a) Devonshire.
(b) Portsmouth.
(c) London.
(d) Dotheboys.

15. About what does Charles Cheeryble confront Nicholas and Kate?
(a) Their rejection of Frank and Madeline.
(b) Their decision to leave London.
(c) Their fear of Ralph.
(d) Their love for Frank and Madeline.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hawk respond when Kate tells him how intensely she dislikes him?

2. What does Nicholas do when he comes to visit Madeline and Bray?

3. What is learned about the Cheerybles?

4. To whom does Nicholas pay his final call of the evening?

5. How does Nicholas react when he hears the men saying less than polite comments about Kate?

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