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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nicholas do when he crumples to the floor?
(a) He feels ill.
(b) He screams.
(c) He sobs.
(d) He faints.

2. Nicholas returns despondently to Noggs' rooms. What does Noggs have for him?
(a) Good news.
(b) Bad news.
(c) A letter.
(d) Dinner.

3. What do Mr. and Mrs. Kenwigs do when Noggs arrives?
(a) They introduce him to their family.
(b) They embrace him.
(c) They glare at him.
(d) They ignore him.

4. Who represents the wealthy industrial classes?
(a) Crowl, Noggs and Brooker.
(b) Ralph, Crowl and Noggs.
(c) Kate, Mrs. Nickleby and Squeers.
(d) Kate, Noggs and Brooker.

5. Members of the company, speaking in turn, give what information to the audience?
(a) The location of the play.
(b) The family backgrounds of each character in the play.
(c) The family background of the Nickleby family.
(d) How to behave as an audience member.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bonney protest?

2. The action returns to what scene?

3. What do the boys do when they see this scene?

4. What does Squeers make this person do?

5. What does Ralph do to the two people who have been dealing with the Mantalinis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Noggs realize about Gride's bride to be? What does he do when he makes this realization?

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

3. How does Bray act during his interaction with Nicholas?

4. What does Ralph say when Kate asks to live with her mother?

5. How does the family act when Mr. Lillyvick arrives?

6. How does Fanny become interested in Nicholas? Why does she become interested?

7. How does the death scene of Romeo and Juliet change from the original plot?

8. In a roadside tavern, what do Nicholas and Smike learn?

9. Where is Noggs expected?

10. As Nicholas and Smike rehearse the scene in which Romeo persuades the Apothecary to ignore his conscience and take the money for the poison, what is Ralph doing?

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