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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is engaged to Lady Jane Sheepshanks?

2. Why does Becky Sharp come to the Crawley residence?

3. What is Becky Sharp's background?

4. Which character is quite smitten by William Dobbin's charms?

5. What is true about George Osborne's personality from chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rawdon Crawley go to his brother's house?

2. Which couple is reunited as seen in chapter 58?

3. What is true of Becky Sharp from chapter 51?

4. What is the relationship between Becky Sharp and Lord Steyne?

5. What else do we get to know about the character of Becky Sharp when she visits the Sedleys?

6. Why does William Dobbin get angry when he reads Amelia Sedley's letter?

7. How does the narrator describe the character of Sir Pitt Crawley?

8. How does the narrator set up the character of Amelia Sedley as seen in chapter 12?

9. What is the author trying to show in chapter 62?

10. What is true of the Osborne family's reaction to George Osborne marrying Amelia Sedley?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does William Thackeray call this novel "a novel without a hero"?

Essay Topic 2

Give examples of imagery used in Vanity Fair and how it helps further the plot of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Why does the author use the character of William Dobbin in the novel? Is it merely to further the plot?

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