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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 Mr. Buckle mentions the name Jack to Henry in Chapter 73, Henry’s pulse is said to be “racing as it had raced the day he had been delivered at the door of” whose orphanage?
(a) Miss Peterson’s.
(b) Mrs. Gummerson’s.
(c) Mrs. Maxwell’s.
(d) Mrs. Halfstairs’s.

2. How does Jack kill the Thief-taker in Chapter 68?
(a) He slits his throat.
(b) He hangs him.
(c) He hits him with an axe.
(d) He shoots him.

3. Where is Mary Oates from?
(a) Wapping.
(b) Gloucestershire.
(c) Whitechapel.
(d) Buckinghamshire.

4. For how long is Tobias to be gone in Gloucester, according to Mary in Chapter 64?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 2 days.

5. What judge does Jack describe as having condemned him as vermin in his letter to Henry in Chapter 59?
(a) Judge Liesenhall.
(b) Judge Denman.
(c) Judge Anderson.
(d) Judge Ross.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 62, Tobias begins his novel about Jack. In what year does his first chapter open?

2. According to the chapter from Tobias’s book in Chapter 74, Sophina was charged with stealing the property of whom?

3. When Jack met Henry, Henry told him he was an orphan and that he was to be sent where to live with other orphans, according to Jack’s story in Chapter 71?

4. What does Jack tell Mr. Spinks he should never look in the eye in Chapter 46?

5. In Chapter 91, the narrator states that Mercy insisted the Maggs family move from Sydney to where after her arrival?

Short Essay Questions

1. What physical conflict takes place in the climax of the novel in Chapters 88 and 89?

2. How does Jack describe the punishment he and Sophina received from Ma Britten in Chapter 65?

3. What exchange takes place between Tobias and Jack in Chapter 55?

4. Why does Mary go to the home of Mary Britten in Chapter 77?

5. How do Jack and Tobias escape Gloucester in Chapter 70? What dangers do they face?

6. Where have Tobias and Jack arrived in the beginning of Chapter 81? What is their objective at this setting?

7. What exchange takes place between Tobias and Dr. Grieves at Mr. Butler’s house in Chapter 50?

8. What leads to the violent conflict that takes place in Chapter 68? What do Jack and Tobias do afterward?

9. To whom does Jack write a letter in Chapter 58? What does he relate in the beginning of the letter?

10. How is Tobias’s son treated in Chapters 52 and 53? What further complications does Tobias encounter in these chapters?

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