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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens when Squeers mentions Smike to Ralph?
(a) Ralph becomes upset.
(b) Ralph wants Smike dead.
(c) Ralph becomes more interested and gets details of where Squeers is staying.
(d) Ralph does not want to hear about Smike.

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

4. How does Nicholas react when he hears the men saying less than polite comments about Kate?
(a) He becomes angry.
(b) He punches one of them in the face.
(c) He become irritated.
(d) He calls the police.

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

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

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 Madeline and Gride.
(d) Agreeing to the marriage of Gride and Kate.

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

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

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

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

12. Why does Mr. Charles chide Nicholas and Kate?
(a) For not loving Frank and Madeline.
(b) For fearing Ralph.
(c) For not trusting him.
(d) For suggesting that they themselves would become corrupted if they came in contact with riches.

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

14. In Ralph's office, Ralph speaks to himself of what?
(a) How he can find Nicholas.
(b) How much he detests Nicholas.
(c) His feelings for Kate.
(d) How horrible he has been.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Squeers feel about Snawley?

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

3. The next day, we see whose offices?

4. What do Kate and Nicholas tell each other, now that they are not marrying their loved ones?

5. After a chase, what happens to Peg, Squeers and the deed?

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