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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once again Nicholas looks for work, and once again what happens?
(a) He finds a horrible job.
(b) An opportunity as good as falls in his lap.
(c) He has no luck.
(d) He cannot find any.

2. What does Nicholas speak, regarding Ralph?
(a) He speaks the words that Ralph is reading in the urgent letter.
(b) He speaks about who sent the urgent letter to Ralph.
(c) He speaks to Ralph, regarding the urgent letter.
(d) He mocks Ralph as Ralph reads the urgent letter.

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

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

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

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

7. What does Nicholas say they learned on their journey?
(a) That to become connected with money is to become corrupted.
(b) That money is what is important.
(c) That no one can be trusted.
(d) That love does not exist.

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

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

10. Why do Sir Mulberry Hawk and Lord Frederick Verisopht wake up groggily?
(a) They have been travelling a great deal.
(b) They are woken up early in the morning.
(c) They are ill.
(d) After a night of too much revelry.

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

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

13. As the rest of the company leaves, what does Nicholas confess to Smike?
(a) He hopes Kate is happy.
(b) He is anxious about Kate.
(c) He enjoys his job.
(d) He loves being an actor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been causing Ralph to lose sleep?

2. The next day, we see whose offices?

3. How does Squeers encourage Peg into handing over the deed?

4. In Hawk's apartments, Pluck and Pyke inform him of what?

5. With whom does Nicholas meet at the tavern?

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