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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does Nicholas react when he overhears men talking about Kate?
(a) He goes to her.
(b) He follows them inside and listens.
(c) He fights them all.
(d) He ignores them.

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

4. Why is Mr. Lenville, another senior actor, concerned?
(a) His roles have become smaller.
(b) His acting is not as good as it once was.
(c) His characters are much more difficult to understand.
(d) He is not getting the applause he used to since Nicholas arrived.

5. Just as everybody returns to go in to dinner, Noggs arrives in a new suit, confessing what?
(a) That he is leaving London.
(b) That he has been helping Ralph.
(c) That he is getting married.
(d) That he has been helping the police.

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

7. Into what do Ralph and Gride manipulate Bray?
(a) Agreeing to the marriage of Madeline and Nicholas.
(b) Agreeing to the marriage of Ralph and Madeline.
(c) Agreeing to the marriage of Gride and Kate.
(d) Agreeing to the marriage of Madeline and Gride.

8. What does Nicholas discover about the young man?
(a) He is John's brother.
(b) He is Smike.
(c) He is his brother.
(d) He is Frank Cheeryble.

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

10. Why does one of the senior actors, Folair, take Nicholas aside?
(a) To express his curiosity about his and Smike's true origins and names.
(b) To complain about Nicholas' play.
(c) To give Nicholas a gift.
(d) To thank Nicholas for a job well done.

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

12. With what does Mr. Lillyvick arrive?
(a) No news.
(b) Some news.
(c) Bad news.
(d) Good news.

13. With whom does Nicholas meet at the tavern?
(a) Kate and Mrs. Nickleby.
(b) John and Tilda.
(c) Tilda and Fanny.
(d) Fanny and John.

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

15. How does Madeline respond when Nicholas impulsively tells her how he feels about her?
(a) She tells him she likes him as well.
(b) She tells him to say nothing more.
(c) She giggles.
(d) She is silent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once again Nicholas looks for work, and once again what happens?

2. Gride takes out the deed he mentioned to Ralph, looks it over once more, puts it back in the trunk and leaves. Of what is he unaware?

3. About what does Charles Cheeryble confront Nicholas and Kate?

4. Gride then asks Noggs to stay for a drink and proposes what?

5. Why do Kate and Mrs. Nickleby visit an invalid named Mrs. Wititterly?

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