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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What announcement at Peggotty's home is interrupted by David and Steerforth's arrival?
(a) Peggotty is getting married.
(b) Emily is pregnant.
(c) Emily and Ham are engaged.
(d) Emily is moving to Australia.

2. Where does Mr. Murdstone arrange for David to work?
(a) Mr. Wickfield's law office.
(b) Debtor's Prison.
(c) A counting house in London.
(d) A post office.

3. Who does Tommy Traddles plan to marry?
(a) Agnes, Mr. Wickfield's daughter.
(b) Dora, Mr. Spenlow's daughter.
(c) Peggotty.
(d) Sophie, the daughter of a country minister.

4. What does Miss Betsey suggest that David become?
(a) A librarian.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A proctor.

5. Why does Steerforth want to accompany David to Yarmouth?
(a) Because it will be funny to see poor people in their natural environment.
(b) Because he wants to marry Emily.
(c) Because he wants to be with David as much as possible.
(d) Because he needs to get away from his mother.

6. Why does Littimer bring Miss Mowcher to Steerforth?
(a) To tell Steerforth gossip about David.
(b) To gossip with Steerforth.
(c) To be Steerforth's friend.
(d) To give Steerforth a hair treatment.

7. When Mr. Dick visits David at school, what does he tell David has frightened Miss Betsey?
(a) The appearance of a strange man.
(b) She thinks she is pregnant.
(c) A glass broke.
(d) A ghost.

8. When Ham arrives at the Peggotty home without Emily, what does he secretly tell David?
(a) That he is not in love with Emily.
(b) That Emily has run away with another man.
(c) That Emily is pregnant.
(d) That he is interested in men.

9. How does Mrs. Steerforth feel about her son?
(a) She believes that everything he does is wonderful.
(b) She thinks he is smart but misbehaves.
(c) She thinks he is spoiled.
(d) She hates him.

10. What does David learn on his birthday?
(a) That he is being expelled from Salem House.
(b) That his father is still alive.
(c) That his mother has died.
(d) That his baby brother has died.

11. What does David find when he returns home for the holidays?
(a) His mother has given birth to another son.
(b) Mr. Murdstone is gone.
(c) His mother is dead.
(d) Miss Betsey will adopt him.

12. Who is Tommy Traddles boarding with?
(a) David.
(b) Steerforth.
(c) The Micawber family.
(d) The Peggotty family.

13. Who does David discuss his romantic problems with?
(a) Mr. Dick.
(b) Dora.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Miss Betsey.

14. What is Mr. Murdstone doing when David runs into him in the midst of making his legal rounds?
(a) Crying over the way he treated David's mother.
(b) Drinking heavily.
(c) Searching for his sister.
(d) Applying for a marriage license.

15. How does David do in school?
(a) David does well in school.
(b) David is expelled from school.
(c) David does poorly in school.
(d) David drops out of school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Miss Betsey decide to send David to school?

2. Why does David go to Yarmouth?

3. Who interrupts David's dinner party with the Micawbers and Traddles?

4. Where has Steerforth come from when he arrives after David's dinner party with the Micawbers and Traddles?

5. How does Mr. Spenlow celebrate David's official apprenticeship?

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