Reading Strategy (Read the General Guidelines also)
Active Reading – Don’t just skim the novel; engage with it. Take notes, underline key passages, and pay attention to details that seem significant.

Summaries & Analyses – After reading a chapter, summarize it in your own words. Refer to book analyses or study guides for deeper insights.

Character & Theme Tracking – Keep a list of important characters, their traits, motivations, and development. Similarly, jot down major themes and symbolic elements.

Vocabulary & Literary Devices – Make note of uncommon words, metaphors, similes, irony, foreshadowing, and other literary techniques used by the author.

Historical & Social Context – Understanding the time period and setting can give you insights into the author’s message and themes.

Bio Info

  1. Dickens:
  • Born at Portsea, near Portsmouth.
  • In 1812
  1. Dickens’ father:
  • John Dickens
  • A clerk in the Navy pay office
  • Lived extravagantly
  • Arrested for debt and sent to the Marshal Sea Prison
  1. Dickens’ mother:
  • Name: Elizabeth
  • Cruel to Dickens
  • This created in him an extra mother with monstrous attributes, reflected in Miss. Murdstone.
  • Women presented in extra fairly tale- like polarities.
  1. Family Servant: Mary Weller, perhaps a model for Pegotty
  2. Pegotty’s first name is also Clara, which was also David’s mother’s name. Coincidentally, she takes his mother’s position after her death.
  3. Dickens’ terrible boyhood experience:
  • Sent to Warren’s Blacking Factory as a child labourer. The factory was owned by a relative. (This is recorded/reflected in David’s being sent to a factory after his mother’s death)
  • Dickens was afraid of the factory and the locality even when he was an adult.
  1. Dickens studied in Wellington House Academy.
  2. At 15, Dickens left school and started working as an office boy in a firm of ………..
  3. Learnt shorthand and became a reporter at the House of Councilors and a reporter in one of the offices of “Doctor’s Commons.”
  4. Took of creative writing under the pen name ‘Boz’ in Old Monthly Magazine
  • Sketched by Boz appeared in 1836.
  • Pickwick Papers followed
  1. Marriage:
  • First with Catherine Hogarth
  • Then….
  1. Dickens’ model writers:
  • Somllett and Le Sage
  1. Dickens’ friend:
  • William Collins (a novelist)
  1. David Copperfield:
  • Dickens’ 8th novel
  • Written during 1849-50 in a serial form.
  • With illustration by Phiz.
  • Published in the magazine,………….?
  • First single volume appeared in 1850
  • Dickens said in preface to the 1869 edition:

“Of all my books, I like this the best. It will be easily believed that I am a fond parent of every child of my fancy and that one can ever love that family as clearly as I love them. But like many fond parent, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And he is David Copperfield.

Characteristics of Characters:

  1. And Mr. Murdstone:
  • Opportunist, saddens, and devoid of human qualities.
  1. Betsy Portwood:
  • Motherly figure, not a flat character, matures over time. Eccentric but angelic.
  1. Unah Heep:
  • A typical low and villain, ultimately a prisoner.
  1. Clara Copperfield:
  • A timid and fragile woman. But a loving mother. The image might have been that of Dickens’ own mother before the family full of adversity. So symbolically, the mother died and a kind of monster was born with Mrs. Murdstone ……. figure.
  1. Pegotty/ Clara Pegotty/ Mrs. Barkis
  • Drawn as if from fairy tale, David’s mother figure, marries Mrs. Barkis, a cart-driver
  1. Pegotty:
  • An ideal human being, rustic yet responsible and cultivating …… love. He adopted Emily and Ham as orphans.
  1. Dick:
  • Real name- Richard Babley, observed with the Lestry of Charles 1, fond of flying kites, solves misunderstaing between Dr. Strong and his wife Annie.
  1. Mell:
  • One of those teachers at Salem House Academy, insulted by Steerforth and removed from school on account of his mother’s being a beggar, flourishes at the ……….
  1. Strong:
  • Headmaster of Canterbury, sharp contrast to Mr. Creackle
  1. Markleman:
  • Strong’s mother-in-law nicknamed “Old Solder” by Dr. Strong’s……

Chapter-wise Important Speeches

  1. I AM BORN
  2. I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry.
  3. I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale. . .at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, I don’t know; all I know is, that there was but one solitary bidding, . . . the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part of the country, to fifty members at half-a-crown a head, the winner to spend five shillings.
  4. I was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk
  5. ‘handsome is, that handsome does’– Said about Betsy Trotwood’s husband
  6. my mother was ‘a wax doll’.- Betsy trotwood thought this
  7. “You are very busy”- Betsy told David’s mother
  8. “He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet”– said of Mr.Chillip, the doctor attending David’s mother.
  9. “ She vanished like a discontented fairy. . .” said of Betsy Trotwood’s leaving the house after the birth of David

 

  1. I OBSERVE
  2. “On Sunday night my mother reads to Pegotty and me in there how Lazarus was raised up from the dead. And I am so frightened. . .”
  3. “I never saw such a beautiful colour on my mother’s face before.”- said at the time of her meeting, Mr. Murdstone

 

  1. I HAVE A CHANGE
  2. “If it had been Aladdin’s palace, roc’s egg and all, I suppose I could not have been more charmed with the romantic idea of living in it.”- said about the boat- house at Yarmouth on his first visit
  3. “My brother Joe was his father”—said about Ham
  4. “Mr. Sen, my brother-in-law, Tom was his father Emily”
  5. “. . . I immediately went into an explanation I never seen my own father. . .”– The boy David said to Emily
  6. “The days sported by us, as time has not grown up himself yet but were a child too and always at plays”.- Childhood reflection on his specimen at Yarmouth in the company of Emily
  7. “. . . the empty dog kennel was filled up with a great dog – deep mouthed and black-haired like Him. . .”- Substitution in child vision

 

  1. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
  2. “My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had . . . from that blessed room Roderide Random, Peregrime Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, The Vicar of Wakefield, Don Qixote, Gil Bolas and Robinson Crusoe came out. . .”- Spot the books and mark their authors
  3. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
  4. “A bird in a cage very little bigger than himself, makes a mournful rattle now and then in hoping on his perch, two in her high. . . but neither signs a chirps”- Compared to David’s position in the prison like school
  5. “Take care of him, he bites”

 

  1. I ENLARGE MY CICLE OF ACQUAITANCE
  2. “I am a Tartar”- Mr. Crackle said
  3. “He was the first boy who returned”- Tammy Traddles at Creackle’s school
  4. The name of the man with wooden leg at Crackle’s School was- Tungay
  5. “. . . Mell’s old flute seemed more than once to sound mournfully. . .”- David thought after his departure
  6. MY HOLIDAYS ESPECIALLY
  7. “I wish I had died, I wish I had die then with that feeling in my heart I should have been more fit . . . than I have ever been since”- David thought of this on seeing his brother

 

  1. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
  2. “. . . but it was all he had to lend, poor fellow except a sheet of letter paper full of skeletons and that he gave me at parting. . .”- This one is from Tommy Tradles
  • The sentence is reminiscent of Gray’s elegy
  • What did TT offer?- His pillow
  • At parting TT gave him the letter paper
  1. “I am the Resurrection and the light, said the Lord”- Pronounced at David’s mother’s burial
  2. “It is over and the earth is filled. . .”- David’s mother’s burial
  3. “All this, I say, is yesterday event. Events of later date have floated from me to the shore when all for soften things will reappear,but this stands like a high rock in the ocean.”- The death and burial if David’s mother
  4. “The last time that I saw her own old self, was the night when you came home, my dear”- Pegotty reported to David about his mother
  5. “I shall never see my pretty darling again. Something tells me so, that tells the truth, I know”.- Pegotty reported to David about his mother’s words
  6. “God protect and keep my father his boy”? 54
  7. “If my baby die too, Pegotty, please let them lay him in my arms”.- 54
  8. “Let my dearest boy go with us to our resting place. . . and tell him that his mother when she lay here, blessed him not once but a thousand times”- 54
  9. “. . . A loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom”- David’s father told his mother
  10. “. . . she died like a child that had gone to sleep”- Pegotty on David’s mother’s death
  11. “In her death she winged her way back to her calm untroubled youth, and cancelled all the rest”- David on his mother’s death
  12. “The mother who lay on the grave was the mother of my infancy; the better creature in her arms was myself, as I had once been hushed for ever on her bosom”

 

  1. I BECAME NEGLECTED
  2. Foxe’s Books and Martyrs was found by David in Barkis’s house

 

  1. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT
  2. David was sent to Murdstone and Grinby’s warehouse
  3. Mealy Potatoes was the name given to David’s associate boy at the warehouse for his complexion.
  4. Micawber first met David at the warehouse.
  5. “. . . your peregrinations in this metropolis has not as yet been extensive and that you might have difficulty in penetrating the arcane of the modern Babylon. . .”-
  • Peregrinations meaning?
  • Arcane meaning?
  • Modern Babylon refers to?
  • The speaker?
  1. Quinion engaged David to the warehouse at a salary of six shilling a week

 

  1. LIKING LIFE ON MY ACCOUNT
  2. “I will never desert Mr. Micawber”- Who said?
  3. “Go away. . . go along ! No boy here!”- Betsey Trotwood told David on his first arrival

 

  1. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION

* Note if you find anything important

 

  1. MY AUNT MAKES UP THE MIND
  2. “. . .Franklin used to fly a kite. He was a Quaker. . .”- Who is Franklin here? About whom is it said?
  3. “Is it a Memorial about his own history that he I writing. . .”- About Mr. Dick

 

  1. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
  2. “Never be mean. . . never be false, never be cruel”- BT’s advice to David
  3. “But oh! What a clammy hand his was. . .”- What is ‘clammy’? whose hand?
  4. “Oh no! I’m a very amble person”- Who said this?

 

  1. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
  2. “The die is cast – all is over.”– Who said? What is the meaning of ‘die’ here?

 

  1. LITTLE EM’LY
  2. “That’s rather a chuckle headed fellow for the girl. . .”- Steerforth told of Ham with relation to Emily
  3. SOME OLD SCENES
  4. “. . . I wish to God I had had a judicious father these last twenty years”- Steerforth
  5. “Why, being gone, I am a man again”- Speaker? Line from?
  6. “Stormy petrels rechristened Little Emily”
  7. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
  8. “You are my good Angel”- Who is ‘you’? Good Angel means?
  9. “I caution you that you have made a dangerous friend”- Agnes told David about Steerforth
  10. “Bad Angel” refers to Steerforth
  11. TOMMY FRADDLES
  12. “I rejoice to reply that they are likewise in the enjoyment of Salubrity”- ‘Salubrity’ means?
  13. “. . . I have now an immediate prospect of something turning up”- Micawber
  14. Mr. MICAWBER’S GAUNTLET
  15. “We two have run about the braves and paid the gowns fine”- Micawber
  16. A LOSS
  17. “People can’t die along the coast”: Except when the tide is pretty right out. They can’t be been unless it is pretty nigh in . . . flood.”- Mrs. Pegotty on Barkis’s death.
  18. “Barkis is willing!”- Barkis’s lost words to David

 

  1. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
  2. “Try not to associate bodily defects with mental, my good friend except for solid reason.”- Miss Mowcher to David
  3. MY AINT ASTONISHES ME
  4. “We must meet reverse boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us. . . we must learn to act the play at. . . we must lie misfortunes down. . .” BT to David after her loss of assets

 

  1. ENTHONIAN
  2. “My dear young friend, you have hit it. It is the dictionary”- Dr. Strong to David
  3. “. . .he earned by the following Saturday ten shillings and nine pence. . .”- Said about Mr. Dickens’ for the first time in his life
  4. “Your mistake in life is that you do not look forward far enough. You are bound. . . your abilities may lead you”—Mrs. Micawber to Mr. Micawber
  5. “I beg to hand to my friend Mr. Thomas Traddles my I.O.U for forty one”—what is I.O.U?

 

  1. A LITTLE COLD WATER
  2. “… the cottage of content was better than the palace of cold splendor, and that where love was all was.”—Said Miss Julia Mills, a dramatic irony as she embraced luxurious life later.
  3. THE WANDERE
  4. “I’d go ten thousand miles. . . I’d go tell I dropped dead to lay that money ____ him”—Mr. Peggoty about Steerforth and Emily

 

  1. DORA’S AUNTS
  2. Mills:
  • Went to ___
  • Miss Mills also went
  • Calcutta is mentioned with reference to Mr. Mill’s being there in his youth
  1. “. . .experience of the Sticker Pidgar. . .”-‘Pidgar’ meaning?
  2. Name of Dora’s aunts—Mrs. Lavinia and Mrs. Clarissa

 

  1. MR. DICK FULFILLS MY AUNT’S PREDICTIONS
  2. “The kite has been glad to receive it, sir and the sky has been brighter with it”- Mr. Dick said
  3. “There can be no disparity a marriage life unsuitability to mind and purpose”—Mrs. Annie Strong at the time of reconciliation

 

  1. INTELLIGENCE
  2. “We have been in France, Switzerland, Italy- in fact almost all parts.”- Littians reported
  3. “Do you recollect a certain willed way in which he looked out to the sea and spoke about ‘the end of it’?”- said about Ham

 

  1. MARTHA
  2. “we won’t mention the subject to another anymore; neither of course will you mention it to anybody else: This is my grumpy frumpy story. . .”- Betsey Trotwood’s marriage, about the husband whom she left
  3. “But sometimes when I took her up, and felt that she lightens in my arms, a dead blank feeling came upon me”- anticipating Dora’s death

 

  1. I’M INVOLVED IN MYSTRY
  2. “When we accosted him. . .”- ‘Accosted’ means?
  3. “It has been my lot. . . to meet in the_____ panorama of human existence with an occasional oasis but never with one so green so gushing as the present”—Mr. Micawber
  4. “I am a straw upon the surface of the deep and tossed in all directions by the elephants- I beg your pardon, I should have said the elements.”
  5. “Villainy is the matter, bareness is the matter, deception is the matter. . .”- Mr. Micawber on Uniah Heep

 

  1. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
  2. “Mr. Micawber called his wife ‘Emma’
  3. “Welcome misery, welcome houselessness, welcome hunger. . .”- Micawber after exposing Heep told his wife.
  4. “. . . the unsettled habit of a temporary sojourned in the land and looking at his bullocks as they came by with the eye of an Austrlian farmer”- said about Mr. Micawber

 

  1. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
  2. “When I can run about as I used to do, Doody, let us go and see those places where we were such a silly couple. . .”
  • Dora told David before her death
  • Dora called David Doody lovingly
  1. “I want to talk to Agnes . . . speak to Agnes quite alone”- What did she tell Agens?
  2. “It is over. Darkness comes before my eyes and for a time all things are blotted of my remembrance”- David after his wife Dora’s death
  3. “That face, so full of pity and grief. . . that solemn hand upraised towards heaven”- ‘upraised hand’ indicating Dora’s death

 

  1. TEMPEST
  2. “Good bye forever. Now my dear, my friend, good bye forever in this world. If I’m forgiven, I may wake up a child and come to you”- Emily’s last words to David
  3. “That’s wind ____, there will be mischief at sea”- indicating Ham’s death
  4. “. . .I saw him lying with his head upon his arms, I had often seen him lie at school”- The way the deadbody of Steerforth found

 

  1. THE NEW WOUND AND THE OLD
  2. “Think of me at my best”—Steerforth’s last words to David
  3. “I loved him better than you ever loved him”- Miss. Dartle to Mrs. Steerforth after his death
  4. “Proud mother of a proud false son I moan for your nurture of him, moan for your corruption of him, moan for your loss him, moan for ___”- Miss. Dartle to Mrs. Steerforth
  5. “She has sown this. Let her moan for the harvest that she reaps today!”– Miss. Dartle to Mrs. Steerforth
  6. “All the world seemed death and silence, ____ truly by his mother’s moaning”—David felt after Ham and Steerforth’s death at the time of leaving Steerforth’s house

 

  1. THE EMIGRANTS
  2. “Mr. MIcawber in his adaptation of himself to a new state of society, had acquired a bold buccaneering air?—‘buccaneering’ meaning?
  3. “. . . he should have the privilege of ordering the ingredients necessary to the composition of a moderate portion of that beverage which is peculiarly associated in an minds with the Roast Beef of England. . .” – He means actually punch
  4. “It is merely crossing. . . The distance is imaginary”- Mr. Micawber on the distance between England and Australia
  5. “It was a wonderful instance to me of the gap much partings make. . . the wooden stairs dated only from last night”—David on Mr. MIcawber and Mrs. Pegotty’s leaving England
  6. “Heaven forbid that I should grudge my nature country any portion of the wealth that may be accumulated by an descendant”- Mr. Micawber
  7. “I seemed to be standing in a picture by OSTADE”—‘OSTADE’ means?
  8. “From bodies who had but a week or two of life behind them, to crooked old men and women who seemed to have a week or two before them. . .”- Scene on the ship to Australia
  9. “A sight at once so beautiful, so mournful, and so hopeful. . . I never saw”—on the scene of the ship going to Australia

 

  1. ABSENCE
  2. “Nature spoke to me and soothed me to lay down in my weary head upon the glass”- Locate the place
  3. David remained abroad for 3 years

 

  1. RETURN
  2. “He had changes in Gray’s Inn”— Gray’s Inn?
  3. “There is a strong resemblance between you and your poor father”—Dr. Chillip said to David
  4. “That murdering women of a sister”—Mrs. Murdstone
  5. “peculiarly liabilities” of Micawber refer to?

 

  1. AGNES
  2. “I came into the quite street where every stare was a boy’s book to me.”- said to Canterbury
  3. “. . . I used to watch the tramps, as they came into the town on those wet evenings at dusk and lumped pool with their bundles drooping over their shoulders at the end of sticks. . .”—Location: Canterbury; Empathy for trams as David himself was seen
  4. “She married me in opposite to her father’s wish and he renowned her”—Mr. Wickfield on his wife who died after giving birth to Agnes
  5. “. . . there was something inexplicably gentle and softened, surrounding you. . .”—David to Agens about her; Alluding to her saint like qualities

 

  1. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
  2. “As my notoriety began to bring upon me as enormous quantity to letters. . .”—‘notoriety’ here means fame
  3. “. . . I labored through then as a Home Secretary without the salary. . .”—David on the letters from readers.
  4. “. . . Where we could be more snug”—‘snug’ means comfortable
  5. “. . .an obliging proposal from one of the numerous outsiders always hurting about the commons to practice under the cover of my name

 

  1. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
  2. “I have loved you all my life”—Agnes breaking out her love for David
  3. “The moment my aunt was restored she flew at Pegotty . . . hugged her with all her might”—What is the occasion? Agnes and David agreed to marry

 

  1. A VISITOR
  2. “Though seas between us braid ha’roared.”
  • Name of the poem.
  • Micawber wrote in an advertisement of a paper
  1. “I saw him stoop and gather a tuft of grass from the grave and a little earth.”—Pegotty for Emily

 

  1. A LAST RETROSPECT
  2. “I find it very curious to see my own infant face, looking up a me from the Crocodile stories; and to be reminded by it my old acquaintance Brooks of Sheffield.”
  3. “Julia Mills married to Scotch Croesus
  4. “I liked her better in the Desert of Sahara”—David about Julia Mills

Sample Questions:
1. What is the name of David’s house?
Salem House.
Limestone Aviary.
Yarmouth Boathouse.
Blunderstone Rookery.

  1. What does the sign that David is forced to wear during his stay at boarding school say?
    “Beware of Dog”
    “Take care of him. He bites.”
    “Beware, I bite.”
    “Violent boy / Take care of him.”
  2. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of David’s birth?
    He was born on a Friday.
    He began crying right at the stroke of midnight.
    Everyone thought that he would be a girl.
    He was born with a caul.
  3. What trait does Mr. Murdstone stress to Clara constantly?
    Submission.
    Forgiveness.
    Firmness.
    Cruelty.
  4. Why did Miss Betsey storm out on the night that David was born?
    She found the doctor to be very rude and insulting.
    She was shocked by the young age of her brother’s widow.
    She was upset that David turned out to be a boy.
    She was offended by a comment made by David’s mother.
  5. David’s earliest memory is of what?
    His father.
    His aunt, Miss Trotwood.
    His home.
    Peggotty and his mother.
  6. During his first stay in Yarmouth, David stays where?
    A cabin.
    A boat.
    A large house.
    A hotel.
  7. Where does Mr. Mell’s mother live?
    In a secluded house.
    In a poorhouse.
    In a boat.
    In a mansion.
  8. What does Dora ask David to call her?
    Child-wife.
    Young-wife.
    Little-wife.
    Simple-wife.
  9. Which of the following does NOT die at sea?
    Ham.
    Little Em’ly’s father.
    Steerforth.
    Mr. Barkis.
  10. Mr. Wickfield suffers from what?
    Chronic illness.
    Alcoholism.
    Insomnia.
    Cancer.
  11. How did Miss Dartle get her scar?
    From an accident out at sea.
    From Steerforth throwing a hammer at her.
    From a fight with Mrs. Steerforth.
    From fainting and falling down.
  12. Dora always has the following at her side:
    Her paints.
    Her guitar.
    Her dog.
    Flowers.
  13. Who does NOT go to Australia at the end of the novel?
    Mr. Omer.
    Martha.
    Mrs. Grummidge.
    Mr. Peggotty.
  14. David eventually decides that he wants to be what?
    A proctor.
    A writer.
    A professor.
    A lawyer.
  15. Miss Betsey is obsessed with which of the following?
    Keeping donkeys off of her grass.
    Money.
    Proper etiquette.
    Sailing and the sea.
  16. Dr. Strong is writing what kind of book?
    Autobiography.
    Dictionary.
    History.
    Biography.
  17. Who is Jack Maldon?
    David’s schoolmate.
    Dr. Strong’s son.
    Annie’s cousin.
    Mr. Wickfield’s nephew.
  18. Mr. Creakle ends up as what?
    A sailor.
    A mortician.
    A school master.
    A magistrate.
  19. What does Miss Mowcher suffer from?
    Dwarfism.
    Rheumatism.
    Alcoholism.
    Cancer.
  20. What is the last thing Steerforth asks of David?
    To remember him at his best.
    To throw a dinner party.
    To tell Little Em’ly he loves her.
    To visit his mother one more time.
  21. How many times is Mr. Micawber thrown in jail for his debts?
    Four times.
    Once.
    Three times.
    Twice.
  22. How does Miss Murdstone know Dora?
    She is her babysitter.
    She is her tutor.
    She is her stepmother.
    She is her hired companion.
  23. Who is with Dora when she dies?
    Agnes.
    Her aunts.
    Mr. Spenlow.
    David.
  24. Mr. Dick is Miss Betsey’s what?
    Live-in housemate.
    Husband.
    Tutor.
    Cook.
  25. Who is Littimer?

Miss Betsey’s husband
Agnes’s uncle
Steerforth’s servant
Mr. Spenlow’s assistant

  1. Where does David meet Steerforth?

At Salem House
At Miss Betsey’s house
At Agnes’s
In the forest

  1. Which of the following characters does David initially trust but then come to distrust?

Agnes
Dora
Mr. Spenlow
Steerforth

  1. With whom does David live while he works at the wine factory?

Mr. Micawber
Miss Betsey
Steerforth
Mr. Wickfield

  1. Where does David first meet Traddles?

At Miss Murdstone’s
At Blunderstone
At Yarmouth
At Salem House

  1. Who is David’s primary good influence?

Dora
Agnes
Miss Betsey
Peggotty

  1. Who is David’s primary bad influence?

Traddles
Uriah
Steerforth
Doctor Strong

  1. Whom does Uriah try to poison against his wife?

Mr. Wickfield
Doctor Strong
Jack Maldon
Mr. Creakle

  1. In whose house does David slap Uriah?

Mr. Micawber’s
Miss Betsey’s
Mr. Wickfield’s
Doctor Strong’s

  1. How does David end up at Miss Betsey’s?

He runs away from home
He runs away from Salem House
He runs away from the wine factory
He runs away from Mr. Micawber’s

  1. How does Steerforth meet Little Em’ly?

Ham introduces them
He sees her on the beach
Mr. Peggotty introduces them
David introduces them

  1. Which of the following characters is a dwarf?

Miss Mowcher
Mr. Barkis
Peggotty
Little Em’ly

  1. Why is David sent to Salem House?

To fetch some milk and eggs
To see his grandmother
Because he bites Mr. Murdstone
Because his mother dies

  1. Why is Mr. Dick unable to finish the Memorial?

He runs out of ink
He can’t stop writing about King Charles I
He can’t stop playing with his kite
It makes him too sad

  1. Who is Ham?

Clara Peggotty’s nephew
Mr. Peggotty’s nephew
Little Em’ly’s future husband
All of the above

  1. Which of the following is not a reason that Traddles waits to marry Sophy?

She is in love with someone else
She is the fourth of ten daughters
He is poor
Her mother is ill

  1. Who is Miss Betsey Trotwood?

David’s aunt
Peggotty’s sister
Clara’s sister
Agnes’s mother

  1. Who declares to David his intention to marry Agnes?

Traddles
Steerforth
Uriah
Jack Maldon

  1. Who is Jack Maldon?

Annie’s brother
Miss Betsey’s sister
Uriah’s father
Annie’s cousin

  1. Which facial feature does Uriah lack?

Lips
Eyebrows
Nose
Eyelashes

  1. Which of the following does Uriah most resemble?

A giraffe
An elephant
A dog
A snake

  1. Why does Miss Betsey keep running out of her house?

Because Mr. Dick hides in the bushes
Because there are donkeys on her lawn
Because she is losing her mind
Because David makes her angry

  1. Who appears to lose all of Miss Betsey’s money?

Mr. Wickfield
Uriah Heep
Doctor Strong
Mr. Dick

  1. Who flies a kite with David?

Uriah
Doctor Strong
Mr. Dick
Mr. Wickfield

  1. Who brings the Strongs back together?

Uriah
Steerforth
Mr. Dick
Mr. Wickfield

  1. How does the opening sentence start?
    “I was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk…”
    “In consideration of the day and hour of my birth…”
    “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life…”
    “To begin my life with the beginning of my life…”
  2. How old was David when his father died?
    six months
    ten years
    two years
    He wasn’t born yet
  3. ” ‘Now let me hear some more about the Crorkindills,’ said Peggotty.” What does she mean by “Crorkindills”?
    Answer: (One Word)
  4. What does David need according to Mr Murdstone?
    love
    firmness
    respect
    friendship
  5. What P.S. does David send to Peggotty in a letter from Salem House?
    “Emily is a sweetheart”
    “I hate Mr Murdstone”
    “I forgive Jane”
    “Barkis is willing”
  6. Who’s the only boy in Salem House whom Mr Creakle never lays a hand on?
    David Copperfield
    James Steerforth
    Tommy Traddles
    George Demple
  7. In Salem House David has to wear a pasteboard placard. What’s written on it?
    “Whoever reads this is a lunatic.”
    “Kick me.”
    “Orphan for sale.”
    “Take care of him. He bites.”
  8. Chapter 9 is called “I have a memorable birthday”. What makes it so memorable?
    His mother and little brother are buried
    He writes his first short story
    He’s locked up in Salem House
    He meets Agnes for the first time
  9. What did Charles Dickens have in common with his “favourite child” David Copperfield?
    He was married twice
    He was born in March
    He bit his stepfather’s finger
    His first job was to label bottles
  10. David runs away from Murdstone and Grinby’s warehouse to the only living relative he has. Who’s this?
    Betsy Trotwood
    Rosa Dartle
    Clara Peggotty
    Janet Murdstone
  11. David’s aunt asks Mr Dick what she should do with the boy. What’s his advice?
    Send him back home
    Break his ribs
    Give him a job
    Wash him
  12. Of these, which happens first?
    David meets Steerforth and Traddles
    David sells his waistcoat for ninepence
    David meets Mr Micawber
    David’s little brother dies
  13. “I saw a cadaverous face appear (…). It belonged to a red-haired person (…) who had hardly any eyebrows, and no eyelashes, and eyes of red-brown…” Who matches this description?
    Uriah Heep
    Ham Peggotty
    Mr Wickfield
    Mr Micawber
  14. In chapter 16 a very pretty young lady is sitting close to Dr Strong. He calls her Annie. Who is she?
    his daughter
    his niece
    his mistress
    his wife
  15. How does Uriah Heep describe himself?
    “quite a great lawyer”
    “a very ‘umble person”
    “a beggared outcast”
    “a very honest little creature”
  16. Who is often in debt, writes a lot of letters, and finally emigrates to Australia?
    Mr Spenlow
    Mr Wickfield
    Mr Micawber
    Mr Chillip
  17. What’s the ironic nickname of Miss Mowcher?
    the Beauty
    the Giantess
    the Nightingale
    Old Soldier
  18. Whom does Emily run away with?
    Ham Peggotty
    James Steerforth
    David Copperfield
    Uriah Heep
  19. Who’s Jip?
    Mr Wickfield’s clerk
    Steerforth’s servant
    Mr Omer’s partner
    Dora’s dog
  20. Whom does Uriah Heep want to marry?
    Dora Spenlow
    Martha Endell
    Emily Peggotty
    Agnes Wickfield
  21. Mr Peggotty travels through Europe in search for Emily. Where does he finally find her?
    Switzerland
    France
    Italy
    London
  22. Complete Mr Micawber’s words: “Approach me again, you – you – you ____ of infamy!”
    Answer: (One Word, name)
  23. Where does David see Uriah (and Littimer) for the last time?
    in a coffin
    at the beach
    in prison
    at the gallows
  24. Which couple never gets married?
    Mr Murdstone and Clara Copperfield
    David Copperfield and Agnes
    Tommy Traddles and Sophy
    Ham Peggotty and Emily
  25. Who still lives at the end of the novel?
    Ham
    Dora
    Emily
    Steerforth