View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Describe Bray.
(a) He is touchy and in a wheelchair.
(b) He is a kind, old gentleman.
(c) He is a handsome, sweet man.
(d) He is a robust young man.

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

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

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

6. What do Kate and Nicholas tell each other, now that they are not marrying their loved ones?
(a) They will be lonely.
(b) They will be each other's companions.
(c) They will never marry.
(d) They will find others to marry.

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

8. Nicholas paid a call on the Kenwigs,' who have had another baby which Mr. Kenwigs has called what?
(a) Lilly.
(b) Vick.
(c) Lillyvick.
(d) Lillyrose.

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

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

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

12. What does Squeers tell Ralph he will do if the police ask him what happened?
(a) He will say nothing.
(b) He will explain that everything was Ralph's idea.
(c) He will lie to protect Ralph.
(d) He will commit suicide.

13. After a chase, what happens to Peg, Squeers and the deed?
(a) They are caught by Nicholas.
(b) They disappear.
(c) They are all taken into custody.
(d) They escape.

14. Why is a young man attacking an angry man?
(a) For stealing his horse.
(b) For being disrespectful to a young woman.
(c) He is drunk.
(d) For beating him at a card game.

15. How does Hawk respond when Kate tells him how intensely she dislikes him?
(a) He apologizes for being so horrible.
(b) He tells her it does not matter.
(c) He walks away.
(d) He will leave her alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his attic room, what does Squeers consider to himself?

2. After the men have gone, of what does Mrs. Wititterly accuse Kate?

3. The next day, we see whose offices?

4. What does Mrs. Grudden give Nicholas?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 632 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample