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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. When Mrs. Nickleby asks Kate whether she has anything to say to her uncle, what does Kate say?
(a) She quietly thanks him.
(b) She has nothing to say.
(c) She angrily storms out of the room.
(d) She does, but insists upon saying it in private.

2. What does Smike tell Nicholas that he cannot remember?
(a) Two days together when he has not been afraid.
(b) His life before Nicholas entered into it.
(c) His parents.
(d) When he first went to Dotheboys Hall.

3. Who is the Infant Phenomenon?
(a) A large woman in a circus.
(b) A waitress at the tavern.
(c) A famous London actress.
(d) The Crummles' daughter who's in her late teens but is forced to act much younger

4. Of what does Hawk accuse Ralph?
(a) Using Kate as bait to lure Verisopht into a financial arrangement.
(b) Being romantically involved with Kate.
(c) Of keeping Kate all to himself.
(d) Having a shy, boring girl as his hostess.

5. At the Mantalinis' workshop, who arrives to try on wedding bonnets?
(a) An elderly lord and his young fiancee.
(b) Tilda.
(c) Fanny.
(d) A young woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Squeers make this person do?

2. What does this person offer Nicholas?

3. These two go through the Mantalinis' things and reveal what?

4. As Nicholas leaves, how does Lillyvick describe him?

5. In a roadside tavern, Nicholas and Smike learn with dismay that not only is it still twelve miles to Portsmouth, but what?

Short Essay Questions

1. As Nicholas continues to teach Smike his lines about the need for money overruling conscience, what is Ralph doing?

2. What happens when Nicholas encounters John Bowdie?

3. Where is Noggs expected?

4. What does Nicholas do to help Smike?

5. How else has the story of Romeo and Juliet changed?

6. What is Ralph doing at his home?

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

8. What happens when Noggs goes downstairs?

9. What happens to Smike? How does Nicholas help him?

10. What does Nicholas read after everyone else is gone?

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