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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 was Dodger most worried about when Oliver was taken away after the theft of the handkerchief?
(a) The cost of the handkerchief.
(b) Fagin's reaction.
(c) Whether anyone saw him at the scene of the crime.
(d) Oliver's safety.

2. Who does Fagin get to force Oliver to cooperate while they are away at the next big robbery?
(a) Charley.
(b) Dodger.
(c) Oliver.
(d) Nancy.

3. Where is Oliver born?
(a) On the streets.
(b) In a train.
(c) In a workhouse.
(d) In a hospital.

4. Why is Oliver not sent to live with the man who is willing to take him in?
(a) Oliver was too young for such menial labor.
(b) The man was not gainfully employed.
(c) Oliver was terrified of the man.
(d) The man had a criminal record.

5. Where is the first place Fagin goes to find Bill after Toby's report?
(a) The bars.
(b) Bill's house.
(c) The jail.
(d) Nancy's apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver see Fagin looking at when he wakes up in Fagin's house for the first time?

2. Why is Oliver so afraid of going to Bill's house?

3. Why does Bill put the wounded Oliver in the ditch after the attempted robbery?

4. What is Bill Sikes' occupation?

5. Who is the first person Oliver meets when he gets to London?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mr. Brownlow leave so suddenly for the West Indies?

2. Who wants to take Oliver off the parishes' hands, and why is he refused?

3. How does Oliver feel about what he witnesses on the day of Fagin's hanging?

4. What does Mr. Giles say when he is asked by the police if Oliver is the child he saw with the robbers the night before?

5. How does Oliver spend the spring with Rose and Mrs. Maylie?

6. What condition is given in Oliver's father's will about his son receiving an inheritance?

7. What does Mr. Bumble do while he visits with Mrs. Corney, and how does she react?

8. What do Rose and the others decide to do about the news that Nancy has brought them?

9. How does Nancy find out where Oliver is staying when he is in town with Rose?

10. How do the people in Mrs. Maylie's house feel about Oliver when he comes to after having his gunshot wound tended to?

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