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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. What is revealed about Paris?

2. Why is this man worried about how the Kenwigs will react to the news of his love interest?

3. By what is this man distracted?

4. Noggs also appears and secretly gives Nicholas what?

5. What does Ralph tell Bonney that he is doing, regarding the company?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is taking place back in London?

2. How does the performance end?

3. What happens when Ralph arrives at his office?

4. What does Nicholas read after everyone else is gone?

5. By what is Sir Matthew Pupker distracted?

6. What good luck does Nicholas have?

7. As Nicholas continues to teach Smike his lines about the need for money overruling conscience, what is Ralph doing?

8. About what does Charles Cheeryble confront Nicholas and Kate?

9. What happens when Nicholas encounters John Bowdie?

10. How does Nicholas end up fighting Hawk?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The death of Smike is the climax of the play.

Part 1) Describe Smike and the events surrounding his death. How is this climactic?

Part 2) What is significant about his death?

Part 3) What is another dramatic climax and secondary thematic climax? How are these climactic events connected?

Essay Topic 2

An aspect of Dickens' work is that his stories tend to be about the tensions between rich and poor.

Part 1) Describe that tension in this story.

Part 2) Why might this be important to Dickens?

Part 3) How is this relevant today?

Essay Topic 3

An aspect of Dickens' work is that, in general, characters in his stories play out a complicated plot.

Part 1) Describe the plot in this story. How is it complicated?

Part 2) What is the purpose for a complicated plot?

Part 3) How do these plots reflect real life?

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