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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it about the O'Dowds that people make fun of?
(a) Their behaviour.
(b) Their dressing style.
(c) Their thick accents.
(d) Their laughing style.

2. What is true about Becky Sharp and Rawdon Crawley's role as parents as seen in chapter 36?
(a) Becky Sharp and Rawdon Crawley both care for the child.
(b) Becky Sharp does not care but Rawdon Crawley is a devoted father.
(c) Only Becky Sharp cares for the child.
(d) Rawdon Crawley does not want the child.

3. Whom does Matilda hate?
(a) Rawdon Crawley.
(b) Becky Sharp.
(c) Lady Crawley.
(d) Pitt junior.

4. Which character is promoted in the military?
(a) Joseph Sedley.
(b) Rawdon Crawley.
(c) William Dobbin.
(d) George Osborne.

5. Who is Miss Swartz?
(a) A writer.
(b) A heiress.
(c) A singer.
(d) A dancer.

6. Who leaves the Sedley home at the end of chapter six?
(a) Mrs. Sedley.
(b) George Sedley.
(c) Amelia Sedley.
(d) Becky Sharp.

7. What happens to Amelia Sedley when she sees Becky Sharp?
(a) She gives her a warm hug.
(b) She smiles at her.
(c) She starts shouting at her.
(d) She slaps her.

8. What is true about Lady Crawley's character as seen in chapter nine?
(a) She is very intelligent.
(b) She has no brains and no power over her husband.
(c) She has lots of friends.
(d) She is the most respected lady of the household.

9. Why does William Dobbin get angry at John Osborne when Osborne is making a speech to William Dobbin?
(a) Because John Osborne insults George Osborne.
(b) Because John Osborne insults Amelia Sedley.
(c) Because John Osborne insults William Dobbin.
(d) Because John Osborne slaps William Dobbin.

10. What item does Becky Sharp sell to get money?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Rawdon Crawley's items.
(c) Horses.
(d) Jewelry.

11. What is Becky Sharp busy doing at the ball thrown by the Duke Of Wellington?
(a) Chatting with William Dobbin.
(b) Seducing all important men.
(c) Talking to Rawdon Crawley.
(d) Dancing with George Osborne.

12. Who is Miss Pinkerton?
(a) The owner of a hotel.
(b) The owner of a farm.
(c) The owner of an estate.
(d) The owner of an academy.

13. Why is it that Becky Sharp does not like William Dobbin?
(a) Because he loves Amelia Sedley.
(b) Because he is ugly and awkward.
(c) Because he is very poor.
(d) Because he hates her husband.

14. What does the narrator reveal about Amelia Sedley's feelings towards William Dobbin in the beginning of chapter 25?
(a) That she is madly in love with him too.
(b) That she is attracted to him.
(c) That she does not like him much.
(d) That she finds him very arrogant.

15. When the characters head to Belgium by sea, which of them gets seasick?
(a) Amelia Sedley.
(b) George Osborne.
(c) Joseph Sedley.
(d) William Dobbin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Becky Sharp flatter, as seen in chapter 31?

2. Who is James?

3. By the end of chapter 20, what is the author portraying about all the characters in this novel?

4. What aspect of George Osborne's character is revealed in chapter six?

5. Why do all of Amelia Sedley's peers despise her?

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