Oliver Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. What immediately provokes Oliver into fighting Noah Claypole at the undertaker’s home?
Noah steals Oliver’s food
Noah insults Oliver’s dead mother
Noah tries to send Oliver back to the workhouse
Noah falsely accuses Oliver of theft
2. A character shares Oliver’s father but has a different mother and schemes against Oliver’s inheritance. Who is he?
Monks
Harry Maylie
Charley Bates
Toby Crackit
3. A new arrival watches boys practice removing objects from Fagin’s pockets. What criminal skill is Fagin teaching them?
Pickpocketing
Forgery
Burglary through upper windows
Selling stolen horses
4. Nancy secretly decides to reveal what she knows about the plot against Oliver. Whom does she approach first for help?
Mr. Grimwig
Mrs. Corney
Harry Maylie
Rose Maylie
5. A boy in the workhouse approaches the master with an empty bowl. What request makes this scene famous?
He asks for more food
He asks to leave the workhouse
He asks to see Mr. Bumble
He asks for work in the kitchen
6. What is the Artful Dodger’s real name?
Charley Bates
Toby Crackit
Noah Claypole
Jack Dawkins
7. Which description best matches the novel’s principal geographical setting?
Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands
Dublin and rural western Ireland
Paris and villages along the Seine
London and nearby English towns and countryside
8. After Oliver is accused of participating in a handkerchief theft, who first takes him into a caring home?
Mrs. Maylie
Mr. Brownlow
Mr. Sowerberry
Mr. Grimwig
9. How is Nancy most directly connected to Bill Sikes?
She is his companion and criminal associate
She is his landlady
She is his sister
She is his employer
10. What official role does Mr. Bumble hold when Oliver is young?
Local magistrate
Undertaker
Workhouse doctor
Parish beadle
11. To whom is Oliver apprenticed after the workhouse authorities decide to place him in a trade?
Mr. Brownlow, a gentleman
Mr. Sowerberry, an undertaker
Mr. Giles, a servant
Mr. Fang, a magistrate
12. Why does Monks try to hide Oliver’s identity and draw him into crime?
He wants Oliver to replace Fagin as the gang’s leader
He hopes to ruin Oliver’s claim and secure the inheritance for himself
He wants revenge because Oliver testified against him
He believes Oliver witnessed one of his robberies
13. Once Oliver’s family history is uncovered, how is Rose Maylie related to him?
She is his older half-sister
She is his cousin through Edwin Leeford
She is his maternal aunt
She is his grandmother’s niece
14. What ultimately happens to Fagin after he is captured?
He is transported overseas
He escapes with Charley Bates
He is convicted and hanged
He receives a pardon from Mr. Brownlow
15. Who murders Nancy after learning that she has disclosed information about the criminal group?
Monks
Fagin
Bill Sikes
Noah Claypole
16. Who wrote the novel Oliver Twist?
Wilkie Collins
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens
Robert Louis Stevenson