CHARLES DICKENS TEST 2 QUESTIONS
WITH CERTIFIED ANSWERS
Oliver Twist by Charles Twist- In a renewed attempt to draw Oliver into a life of crime,
__________ forces him to participate in a burglary. Nancy reluctantly assists in
recruiting him, all the while assuring the boy that she will help him if she can. Sikes,
after threatening to kill him if he does not cooperate, puts Oliver through a small window
and orders him to unlock the front door. The robbery goes wrong and Oliver is shot by
people in the house and wounded in his left arm. After being abandoned by Sikes, the
wounded Oliver makes it back to the house and ends up under the care of the people
he was supposed to rob: Miss Rose and her guardian Mrs. Maylie. - Answer-Fagin
Oliver Twist by Charles Twist- The mysterious man Monks plots with Fagin to destroy
Oliver's reputation. Monks denounces Fagin's failure to turn Oliver into a criminal, and
the two of them agree on a plan to make sure he does not find out about his past.
Monks is apparently related to Oliver in some way. Back in Oliver's hometown, Mr
Bumble has married Mrs Corney, the matron of the workhouse where the story first
began, only to find himself in an unhappy marriage, constantly arguing with his
domineering wife. After one such argument, Mr Bumble walks to a pub where he meets
Monks, who questions him about Oliver. _________ informs Monks that he knows
someone who can give Monks more information for a price, and later Monks meets
secretly with the Bumbles. After Mrs Bumble tells Monks all she knows for a price,
Monks takes the locket and ring proving Oliver's parents, which had once belonged to
Oliver's mother, and drops - Answer-Bumble
Oliver Twist by Charles Twist- Now ashamed of her role in Oliver's kidnapping and
worried for the boy's safety, Nancy goes to _____________, staying in London. She
knows that Monks and Fagin are plotting to get their hands on the boy again, and offers
to meet again any Sunday night on London bridge. Rose tells Mr Brownlow, and the two
then make plans with all their party in London. The first Sunday night, Nancy tries to
leave for her walk, but Sikes refuses permission when she declines to state exactly
where she is going. Fagin realizes that Nancy is up to something, perhaps has a new
boyfriend, and resolves to find out what her secret is. - Answer-Rose Maylie
Oliver Twist by Charles Twist- Meanwhile, Noah has fallen out with the undertaker
__________, stolen money from him, and fled to London with Charlotte. Using the
name "Morris Bolter", he joins Fagin's gang for protection and becomes a practicer of
"the kinchin lay" (robbing of children), and Charlotte is put with the girls. Fagin sends
Noah to watch the Artful Dodger on trial, after he is caught with a stolen silver snuff box;
the Dodger is convicted while showing his style, with a punishment of transportation to
Australia. Next, Noah is sent by Fagin to spy on Nancy, and discovers her meeting with
Rose and Mr Brownlow on the bridge, hearing their discussion of why she did not
,appear the prior week and how to save Oliver from Fagin and Monks. - Answer-Mr
Sowerberry
Oliver Twist by Charles Twist- Fagin angrily passes the information on to Sikes, twisting
the story to make it sound as if Nancy had informed on him, when she had not.
Believing Nancy to be a traitor, Sikes beats her to death in a fit of rage that very night
and flees to the countryside to escape from the police and his conscience. There, Sikes
is haunted by visions of Nancy and alarmed by news of her murder spreading across
the countryside. He returns to London to find a hiding place and intends to steal money
from Fagin and flee to ________, only to die by accidentally hanging himself while
attempting to lower himself from a rooftop to flee from a mob angry at Nancy's murder. -
Answer-France
Oliver Twist by Charles Twist- While Sikes is fleeing the mob, Mr Brownlow forces
Monks to listen to the story connecting him, once called Edward Leeford, and Oliver as
half brothers, or to face the police for his crimes. Their father, Edwin Leeford, was once
friends with Brownlow. Edwin had been in a miserable marriage that produced Monks,
only to have Monk's mother separate. Edwin had associated with an older gentleman
who was friends to him and Mr. Brownlow, who had had two daughters, one who was a
girl of seventeen and the other a toddler. Edwin fell in love with the elder daughter,
Agnes, but their relationship had been secretive. Edwin had to help a dying friend in
Rome, and then died there himself, leaving Agnes, "his guilty love", in England,
whereupon she died after giving birth to Oliver. Mr Brownlow has a picture of Agnes and
had begun making inquiries when he noticed a marked resemblance between her and
O - Answer-Newgate Prison
Oliver Twist by Charles Twist- On a happier note, Monks revealed that Rose was the
younger sister of Agnes, and thus Oliver's aunt. She marries her sweetheart Harry
Maylie, who gives up his political ambitions to become a parson, drawing all their friends
to settle near them. Oliver lives happily with Mr Brownlow, who adopts him. Due to
Noah's cooperation with the law during the pursuit of Fagin, he is granted immunity and
becomes a paid, semi-professional police informer. The Bumbles lose their positions
and are reduced to poverty, ending up in the workhouse themselves. All the members of
Fagin's gang suffer unhappy endings, with one exception. Charley Bates, horrified by
Sikes' murder of Nancy, becomes an honest citizen, moves to the country, and
eventually becomes prosperous. The novel ends with the tombstone of Oliver's mother
on which it is written only one name: __________. - Answer-Agnes
_____________________ (or also The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,
Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and
Complete Career of the Nickleby Family[1]) is a novel by Charles Dickens originally
published as a serial from 1838 to 1839. It was Dickens' third novel. The story centres
on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his
mother and sister after his father dies. - Answer-Nicholas Nickleby or The Life and
Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
, The plot of Nicholas Nickleby** by Charles Dickens has characters like Nicholas
Nickleby: The hero of the novel. His father has died and left Nicholas and his family
penniless. Nicholas is honest and steadfast, but his youth and inexperience of the world
can lead him to be violent, naïve, and emotional. In his preface to the novel, Dickens
writes, "There is only one other point, on which I would desire to offer a remark. If
Nicholas be not always found to be blameless or agreeable, he is not always intended
to appear so. He is a young man of an impetuous temper and of little or no experience;
and I saw no reason why such a hero should be lifted out of nature." He devotes himself
primarily to his friends and family and fiercely defies those who wrong the ones he
loves. ____________: The book's principal antagonist, Nicholas's uncle. He seems to
care about nothing but money and takes an immediate dislike to the idealis - Answer-
_____________: Nicholas and Kate's mother, who provides much of the novel's comic
relief. The muddleheaded Mrs. Nickleby often does not see the true evil her children
encounter until it is directly pointed out to her, and her obtuseness occasionally worsens
her children's predicaments. She is stubborn, prone to long digressions on irrelevant or
unimportant topics and unrealistic fantasies, and displays an often vague grasp of what
is going on around her. - Answer-Ralph Nickleby; Catherine "Kate" Nickleby; Mrs.
Catherine Nickleby
___________ is one of two novels (the other being __________) which Charles
Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial_____________, from
1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship
bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841.[1] The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in
book form in 1841. The plot follows the life of ___________ and her grandfather, both
residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. _________ read the novel in 1841 and
found it "very interesting and cleverly written" - Answer-The Old Curiosity Shop;
Barnaby Rudge; Master Humphrey's Clock; Nell Trent; Queen Victoria
Charles Dickens - Answer-1812-1870
When we consider ______________'s life and work, in comparison with that of the two
great poets we have been studying, the contrast is startling. While Tennyson and
Browning were being educated for the life of literature, and shielded most tenderly from
the hardships of the world, Dickens, a poor, obscure, and suffering child, was helping to
support a shiftless family by pasting labels on blacking bottles, sleeping under a counter
like a homeless cat, and once a week timidly approaching the big prison where his
father was confined for debt. - Answer-Charles Dickens
In 1836 Charles Dickens' _____ was published, and life was changed as if a magician
had waved his wand over him. While the two great poets [ Tennyson and Browning]
were slowly struggling for recognition, Dickens, with plenty of money and too much
fame, was the acknowledged literary hero of England, the idol of immense audiences
which gathered to applaud him wherever he appeared. And there is also this striking
contrast between the novelist and the poets,-that while the whole tendency of the age
was toward _______, away from the extremes of the romanticists and from the oddities
