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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In his attic room, what does Squeers consider to himself?
(a) The decisions he has made.
(b) The horrible things he has done.
(c) The manipulations of Ralph Nickleby that brought him there.
(d) The poor choices he has made.

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

6. Why can Nicholas not pursue this person?
(a) He is surprised to see this person.
(b) He is embarrassed.
(c) Mr. Charles is introducing him to Mr. Ned.
(d) They leave too quickly.

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

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

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

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

11. Back in London, for what does the social climbing Mrs. Wititterly ask Kate?
(a) How much money she has as a dowry.
(b) Information about Hawk and Verisopht.
(c) Who she is marrying.
(d) Information about Ralph.

12. To whom does Nicholas pay his final call of the evening?
(a) Kate.
(b) Madeline.
(c) Noggs.
(d) Fanny.

13. 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 marrying Kate.
(d) By stealing his inheritance.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does one of the senior actors, Folair, take Nicholas aside?

3. What is learned about the Cheerybles?

4. The next day, we see whose offices?

5. Into what do Ralph and Gride manipulate Bray?

(see the answer keys)

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