Nicholas Nickleby. Summary. Charles Dickens

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1 Teaher Support Programme B1333 Teaher s notes LEVEL 4 Niholas Nikleby Charles Dikens Summary The Niklebys (Niholas, his mother, sister Kate) are penniless after the death of Mr Nikleby. In their poverty and desperation they seek help from Niholas s Unle Ralph, a mean-spirited, ruel moneylender. Niholas s independent attitude angers Ralph and Niholas is sent away to Dotheboys Hall to teah. He is upset by the mistreatment of the hildren there by Headmaster Wakford Squeers, and is disgusted by the ruel treatment given to a boy alled Smike. Niholas thrashes the evil Squeers and esapes to London with Smike, who beomes his lose ompanion. In London, Niholas ontinues his one-man rusade against the ill treatment of his family by Ralph and the perseution of his sister by Sir Mulberry Hawk. After Niholas finally makes a home for his family. With the help of Newman Noggs (Ralph s lerk) and the Cheeryble brothers (benevolent businessmen), Ralph gets his eventual omeuppane. Although Smike (who turns out to be Ralph s long-lost son) dies, there is a general sense of justie at the end of the story. Chapters 1 2: Ralph Nikleby, a moneylender and Niholas s unle, reeives a letter saying that his brother has died and that the widow and hildren have been left penniless. Ralph visits them and treats them sornfully. He tells Niholas of a job at Dotheboys Hall, a shool for boys in Yorkshire, owned by Wakford Squeers, and promises to provide for the family if Niholas is given the job. Squeers hires Niholas as his assistant and they travel together to the shool. After they arrive at Dotheboys, Niholas soon realises how harsh Squeers s rules are and how mistreated the boys are. Niholas espeially pities Smike, a boy who is made to do all the hard work and who is ruelly punished. Chapters 3 4: Niholas finds life at Dotheboys hard and is appalled by the ruel treatment given the to boys and to Smike, who runs away. Niholas has a fistfight with Squeers and leaves the shool. On his way bak to London, Niholas finds Smike and agrees to take him with him. Niholas finds heap lodgings in London and a job as a private Frenh teaher. When Niholas visits his mother and sister, he overhears his unle telling them that he is a thief who has stolen a ring from Squeers and has run away with one of the hildren. Niholas argues with Ralph and tries to defend himself from all the ausations but finally deides to leave London one again so as to protet his mother and sister. Chapters 5 6: In London, Kate finds a job as Mrs Wititterly s ompanion. Unfortunately, one of Ralph s best ustomers, Sir Mulberry Hawk, likes Kate and insists on spending time with her despite her turning him down. Kate asks Ralph for help but he refuses to lose his best lient. Newman Noggs overhears the onversation and writes to Niholas, who deides to ome bak to London. Niholas fights Sir Mulberry and orders him to stay away from his sister. He also has his mother and sister move out from Ralph s house and writes a letter to his unle rejeting any further help from him. Chapters 7 8: Ralph and Squeers join up to take revenge on Niholas. Mrs Nikleby and Kate are introdued to Smike and they deide to let him stay with them. Niholas meets Mr Cheeryble and his brother and they introdue him to Mr Linkinwater with whom he will work at the Cheerybles ounting-house. Niholas is also invited to move to a small ottage owned by the Cheerybles together with his family. Squeers kidnaps Smike and holds him aptive at Snawley s house. Fortunately, Smike is helped to esape by friend John Browdie and he finally reahes the Niklebys home. Chapters 9 11: Niholas falls in love with a poor artist, Madeline, who is supported by the Cheerybles. Niholas agrees to pay for some of her paintings without her father knowing that the money omes from the Cheerybles. What Niholas doesn t know is that she is to marry one of her father s reditors, Arthur Gride. Ralph and Squeers pretend that their friend Mr Snawley is Smike s father and they almost get away with taking the boy with them. The Niklebys are inreasingly more worried about the boy s harater and health. When Niholas learns that Madeline is about to marry Gride, he tries to persuade her not to do so. He finally saves her from the marriage. Pearson Eduation Limited 2007 Niholas Nikleby - Teaher s notes of 3

2 Teaher Support Programme B1333 Teaher s notes LEVEL 4 Niholas Nikleby Chapters 12 14: After her father s death, Madeline moves in with the Cheerybles. Smike s health worsens and Niholas takes him to a small farmhouse in Devon to rest. However, Smike soon dies. Squeers is imprisoned, and when the boys at Dotheboys Hall learn this, they all run away and go bak home to their families. Ralph finds out that Smike was his son. The following day Ralph, regretting what he had done to his nephew and his own son and family hangs himself. Niholas and Madeline get marry, and so do Kate and Frank Cheeryble. The Niklebys finally find happiness. About the author Charles Dikens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, a naval town on the south oast of England. He spent his hildhood in Chatham, to the east of London. His father was imprisoned for unpaid debts, and the twelve-year-old Charles had to work in a blaking fatory making shoe polish. This was a miserable time for young Dikens and may be the reason why the themes of poverty, injustie and brutality reur frequently in his novels. In 1827 he worked as a lerk in a law ompany, but soon realised he hated Law almost as muh as he hated making shoe polish. He deided to beome a journalist instead. In 1832, Dikens beame a reporter. He married Catherine Hogarth, the daughter of the editor of The Evening Chronile newspaper. His big break ame when publishers Chapman and Hall ommissioned him to write a series of stories based on a fititious lub. The Posthumous Papers of Pikwik Club was published in twenty monthly papers in By the end, the story had 40,000 readers. Dikens beame one of the most popular writers in England. He wrote a large number of novels and stories, inluding A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and Great Expetations. Dikens loved the theatre. He fell in love with an atress, Ellen Ternan. His reading tours in the United States were popular. During his seond visit there, in 1867, he beame ill. He gave one of his last publi readings in 1870 and died in June the same year, aged 58, leaving an unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Bakground and themes Eduation: Dikens visited a shool in the north of England and was so shoked by the ruel treatment given to the pupils by the shoolmaster, William Shaw, that he used the shool as a model for Dotheboys Hall. The desription of Dotheboys Hall aused shok and onsternation. Questions were asked in Parliament and the government was fored to investigate the problem. Eventually, ation was taken against real shools like the one Dikens had seen. Dikens was always very proud of his suess in bringing suh evil plaes to publi attention. The lass system: The members of the establishment with power and/or money, suh as Squeers, Sir Mulberry, Ralph, Mrs Wititterly and Gride in the story, are ynial, vain, ruel, selfish manipulators and exploiters of those more disadvantaged than themselves, suh as Niholas, Kate, Madeline and Smike. Poverty: In Dikens s previous novel, Oliver Twist, poverty dehumanises the haraters. In Niholas Nikleby, however, the harshness of injustie and poverty is not allowed to vanquish the basi qualities of the human spirit. People suh as Kate and Niholas, Smike, Newman Noggs and Madeline, retain fundamental deeny and kindness, and they are allowed to enjoy, to varying degrees, a sense of peae and justie by the end of the story. Fate: Chane and fate always seem to play a major part in Dikens s novels. Without the timely intervention of the Cheeryble brothers, it is unlikely that the fores of good, represented by Niholas, Kate, Newman Noggs and Madeline, would have overome the fores of evil, embodied in Squeers, Ralph, Gride and Sir Mulberry. Ultimately, the story is about the searh for happiness in a ruel, unjust world. It is an adventure story, sometimes tragi, often amusing. It is the mixture of a serious message with entertainment that makes it as popular and as relevant today as it was nearly 200 years ago. There have been many film, stage and television adaptations of the story, most reently a 2002 film by Douglas MGrath with Jamie Bell (of Billy Elliot fame) as Smike. Disussion ativities Before reading 1 Disuss: Talk about hildren and poverty. What do you know or imagine soiety was like in the 1800s? How did poor people live? What happened to families when the father died and they were penniless? 2 Disuss: Talk about hildren and eduation. Find out what students know about boarding shools. 3 Write: Tell students to imagine what life was like in a boarding shool run by a strit shoolmaster during the late 1800s. Write their answers on the board. Pearson Eduation Limited 2007 Niholas Nikleby - Teaher s notes 2 of 3

3 Teaher Support Programme B1333 Teaher s notes LEVEL 4 Niholas Nikleby 4 Disuss: Talk about lass differenes. In groups, students leaf through the book looking for pitures that illustrate lass differenes. What are these people like? Do you think they all belong to the same soial lass? Why (not)? Can you tell who is rih and who is poor? What do you think they do every day? How do you think they are treated by others? Why? 5 Film: Wath the first three to five senes of the film Niholas Nikleby (2002) by Douglas MGrath with the sound off. Divide the lass into two. a Have the first half hoose one of the senes and imagine what the haraters say. b The seond half draws a hart desribing whih issues are similar and different from what they have read in the book. Play the film again and hek. Chapters Role play: Get students to work in groups of five. You are Niholas, Smike and other boarders at Dotheboys Hall. Write the dialogue between all the boys omplaining about the plae. At some point they will be interrupted by an angry Mr Squeers! What happens, then? Ask them to at out their dialogues for the lass. 7 Write: Get students to write on the following. Ralph reeives a letter from Mrs Nikleby but we never get to read what it says. Imagine you are Mrs Nikleby. You are very sad and need help. What would you write in the letter to the rih brother of your dead husband? Chapters Guess: Get students to work in groups. Eah student hooses to be one of the haraters in Chapters 3 4 (Niholas, Fanny, John, Tilda, Smike or others). They take it in turns to desribe themselves and what they do and the others guess who they are. Chapters Disuss: Have students talk about a dinner party. Put students into small groups. Ask them to plan a dinner party for the following guests: Newman Noggs, Niholas, Fanny Squeers, Mr Squeers, Ralph, Mrs Nikleby, Sir Mulberry, Kate, Mrs Wititterly, Smike. Where will the dinner take plae? How will guests be seated? Why? Think of their personalities and deide: What will they wear? What will eah of them eat? 10 Role play: Put students into pairs. Ask them to at out this onversation after the evening at the theatre. Student A: You are Mrs Nikleby. You want Kate to be friendly with Sir Mulberry Hawk. Say why. Student B: You are Kate. You don t want to see that ugly man again. Say why. Chapters Write: In lass or as homework, get students to write on the following: You are Smike. You have been kidnapped and you are now loked in a room. You find a piee of paper and you write how you feel, what you are afraid of and what you think will happen to you. 12 Role play: Students work in pairs. Ask them to write and at out the onversation the Cheerybles had. Imagine you are Ned and Charles. Write down the onversation both brothers have and how they deide to give Niholas a job and a hane in life. Then ask them to at out their dialogues for the lass. Chapters Role play: Put students into pairs. Ask them to at out this onversation between Madeline and Niholas. Student A: You are Niholas. Tell Madeline how you feel and what your plans are for you both. Bring her a gift and ask her out on a date. Student B: You are Madeline. You are shy and surprised. Tell Niholas how you feel. Chapters Disuss: Have students talk about Ralph. Put students into groups and tell them to disuss these questions: How do Snawley, Squeers, Arthur Gride, Brooker and Newman Noggs feel about Ralph? Why? Do you feel sorry for Ralph? Why (not)? Was Niholas right not to aept Ralph s money? 15 Write: Ask students to imagine they are Squeers and to write a letter to Fanny telling her how he feels while he is imprisoned. 16 Disuss: Have students talk about poverty. What view of poverty does Niholas Nikleby have? What is important about Niholas s attitude in life? 17 Disuss: Wath the ending of the film Niholas Nikleby by Douglas MGrath. Did you like the ending of the film? Was it lose to the ending in the book? Ask students to ompare the haraters in the book with those in the film. Were the haraters as you imagined them? Whih one would you hange? Why? 18 Projet: Make a film and literature magazine. a Disuss what its name will be and who the target readers will be. Work on the over of the magazine. b Deide how many setions the magazine will have. Inlude: a book review and a film review of Niholas Nikleby; information about Dikens; photos or drawings of the author, the film and the book; interviews of haraters in the book or film. The lass prepares a display with their work. Invite other lasses to visit your lassroom. Your students an present their work to a real audiene. Voabulary ativities For the Word list and voabulary ativities, go to Pearson Eduation Limited 2007 Niholas Nikleby - Teaher s notes 3 of 3

4 Teaher Support Programme B1333 Ativity worksheets LEVEL 4 Niholas Nikleby While reading Chapters Are the sentenes are right (3), wrong (7) or possible (?). Chek your answers with the rest of the lass. Do you agree? a To Ralph Nikleby, money was the most important thing. b Niholas s father and Ralph were not on speaking terms beause Niholas s father owed him a lot of money. Miss La Creevy was a painter. d Niholas and Ralph had a good relationship right from the start. e Niholas aepted to work for Ralph. f Wakford Squeers beat hildren. 2 Math the name and the desription. Mrs Nikleby Ralph Nikleby Newman Noggs Miss La Creevy Wakford Squeers Smike a is very shy. He is about eighteen years old but wears hildren s lothes. b is the lerk of a mean, bitter man. is a widow and needs help to support her family. d lends money to people in order to get riher. e is an artist who owns the house where the Niklebys live. f is the shoolmaster at Dotheboys. Chapters Fill in the gaps with the right word. hugged evil lodgings relieved ageny persuade a Wakford Squeers was the most man that Niholas had ever seen. b Niholas had to Ralph that he was not a thief. Niholas needed to work so he immediately went to a job to see if he ould find something. d Newman Noggs got money from his job as a lerk and from the he had at the top of his house. e Before Niholas left for Dotheboys Hall he kissed and his mother and sister. Photoopiable f Niholas was that he ould run away from Dotheboys Hall with Smike. 4 Who said the following and under whih irumstanes, do you think? Kate Nikleby Fanny Squeers Tilda Niholas Newman Noggs Smike a I like this boy! I ll marry him and show all the girls that I m better than they are! b She thinks he likes her but I m muh prettier and he will want to marry me even though I do have a boyfriend. What s the matter with these girls? Why are they looking at me like that? d I an t believe I m finally going to have a nie home with people who are about me! e Poor young men! They look old and tired. I ll help them and ask them to ome in. f Who does this man think he is? How an he speak of my brother like that! Chapters What will happen next? Work in pairs. a What will Kate do about Sir Mulberry Hawk? b Where will Kate and Mrs Nikleby live if Niholas fights Ralph? How safe will Smike be at the Niklebys? d What will Sir Mulberry Hawk do after being attaked by Niholas? e What job will Niholas get? f Whih friend from Dotheboys will Niholas meet again? 6 Colour the mistakes and write the orret sentenes. a Niholas was so hungry that he had to stop at a restaurant to eat and drink. b Niholas overheard a group of men talking about his mother. Sir Mulberry Hawk was so drunk that Niholas had to help him walk. d Niholas was angry with Sir Mulberry Hawk beause he didn t want to tell him where he worked. Pearson Eduation Limited 2007 Niholas Nikleby - Ativity worksheets of 2

5 Teaher Support Programme B1333 Ativity worksheets LEVEL 4 Niholas Nikleby e Sir Mulberry Hawk left on horsebak. f Niholas wrote a letter to Ralph saying he was sorry. Chapters Finish the sentenes. Work in pairs. a When Ralph was planning how to take revenge on Niholas his old friend, b Charles Cheeryble ouldn t believe that a fine gentleman like Niholas Tim Linkinwater told Niholas d When the Niklebys moved to the ottage, Smike, e When Wakford Squeers and his son saw Smike, f John Browdie made everybody believe that he was sleeping and. Chapters Who they love or who they want to marry, do you think? Write the names. Some an be used more than one. Niholas Ralph Tilda Charles Cheeryble Mr Gride Sir Mulberry Hawk John Browdie a Madeline: b John Browdie: Himself: d Madeline s mother: e Kate: f Tilda: 9 What do they want 1) from other people? 2) to do as soon as possible? Work in pairs. Finish the sentenes. a Brooker 1 (from Ralph)... b Ralph 1 (from Squeers and Snawley).. Charles Cheeryble 1 (from Niolas) d Mr Bray 1 (from Niholas) e Arthur Gride 1 (from Ralph) f Niholas 1 (from Noggs). Photoopiable Chapters Math the names and the desriptions. Ralph Nikleby Snawley Squeers Frank Cheeryble Peg Sliderskew Tim Linkinwater a was Arthur Gride s housekeeper. b was interested in Kate, and Mrs Nikleby started dreaming of a wedding for her daughter. s wife kiked Ralph out of her house beause he got her husband into a lot of trouble. d is in jail and ompletely ruined. e told Ralph that the Cheerybles had very bad news to tell him. f To everybody s surprise ouldn t take so muh bad news and hanged himself. 11 Math the inomplete sentenes with their endings. a Everybody was shoked to learn that b When Niholas sadly returned from Devon after Smike s death Niholas was happy beause d When John Browdie reahed Dotheboys Hall e Kate married Frank and f Miss La Creevy married 1 all his enemies had been defeated. 2 Ralph was Smike s father. 3 he saw all the boys breaking the furniture. 4 Niholas married Madeline 5 he was shoked to find that Ralph had killed himself. 6 Tim Linkinwater in seret. 12 A seret marriage! Work with another student. Disuss when, where and how (who were the guests? what did they wear?) Tim Linkinwater and Miss La Creevy s seret wedding took plae. 13 Student A is Tim Linkinwater. Student B is Miss La Creevy. At out the marriage proposal. 14 Draw and write about your favourite part in the book. Pearson Eduation Limited 2007 Niholas Nikleby - Ativity worksheets 2 of 2

6 Teaher Support Programme B1333 Progress test LEVEL 4 Niholas Nikleby Chapters Fill in the gaps with the right word. owed lerk sighed begged a Many poor people Ralph to help them but he was too mean to agree. b Ralph was a moneylender and he lived on the people who him money. Mrs Nikleby was sad and she with pain. d Newman Noggs was Ralph Nikleby s. Chapters What is right (3) and what is wrong (7)? a Fanny Squeers wanted to meet Niholas beause she heard he was very good and intelligent. b Tilda initially believed that Niholas was going to marry Fanny. Fanny got angry with John beause he said that the teahers at Dotheboys had almost no food. d Niholas felt that instead of friends he was making enemies. 3 Complete the sentenes. a When Niolas visited Newman Noggs, he learnt that. b Niholas wanted to persuade Ralph that. Ralph visited Kate and Mrs Nikleby to tell them. d Kate was angry with Ralph. Chapters Cirle the right words. a Kate started working for Mrs Wititterly as a lerk / ompanion. b Mrs Nikleby thought that Kate s strange look on her fae was shyness of love / sadness. Ralph deided to help Sir Mulberry with Kate beause he thought it would be good for his business / a way to take revenge on Mrs Nikleby. d Kate thought that Sir Mulberry was a rude unpleasant man / poor old man. Chapters Put the sentenes in order, 1 5. a Ralph and Wakford Squeers planned their revenge on Niholas. b Niholas met Charles Cheeryble at a job ageny. Niholas introdued his mother and sister to Smike. Photoopiable d Niholas s mother and sister moved to a small house that belongs to Niholas s new employers. e The Cheerybles offered Niholas a job at the ounting-house. Chapters There is a mistake in eah of the sentenes below. Underline it. Then, write the right information. a Niholas wanted to punish Squeers for being rude to his mother and sister. b When Niholas asked Tim Linkinwater who the mysterious girl was, the man told him she was the Cheerybles niee. After his fight with Niholas, Sir Mulberry Hawk asked Ralph for help to take revenge. 7 Choose the right endings. Cirle 1 or 2. a When Charles Cheeryble was a young man 1 he was in love with Madeline Bray s mother. 2 he had a seret lover. b Madeline s mother 1 hated her husband. 2 asked for help from Charles before she died. Madeline s father 1 hates Charles Cheeryble. 2 is friends with Ned Cheeryble. Chapters Cirle the right words. a Charles showed Niholas Madeline s grandfather s will / aounts / paintings. b Niholas was happy beause all his enemies had been lost / sad / defeated. The Niklebys always took flowers to Smike s shool / grave / house. d Everybody was shoked beause Ralph had disappeared / died / killed himself. 9 Are these sentenes right (3) or wrong (7)? a Mr Squeers made Peg Sliderskew give him Mr Gride s papers. b Frank Cheeryble and Newman Noggs found that Mr Gride s papers atually belonged to Madeline. As soon as Niholas and Smike arrived in Devon, Smike died. d Before dying, Smike saw Brooker. Pearson Eduation Limited 2007 Niholas Nikleby - Progress test of 1

7 Teaher Support Programme B1333 Answer keys LEVEL 4 Niholas Nikleby Book key 1.1 Open answers 1.2 Open answers False. Ralph has no friends and is unpopular with his neighbours. 2 False. Niholas s father has died and his mother has had to sell their house to pay his debts. 3 True. Ralph sends Niholas to work at a shool in Yorkshire. 4 True. Smike thinks that Niholas is going to hurt him a Ralph Nikleby b Newman Noggs Wakford Squeers d Smike e Kate Nikleby f Niholas Nikleby 2 tall, thin and afraid D rih and selfish A strange-looking but kind B ugly and ruel C 3 emotional 3 He is upset beause Ralph is rude about his father. grateful 7 He is not grateful for Ralph s help. lonely 3 He is lonely when he arrives at Dotheboys Hall. proud 3 He is proud, so he wants to refuse Ralph s help expression 2 rudeness 3 omplaint 4 hunger 5 anger 6 treatment 2.4 Open answers C 2 F 3 B 4 A 5 E 6 D Fanny Squeers 2 John Browdie 3 Smike 4 Newman Noggs 5 Miss La Creevy 6 Ralph Nikleby 7 Kate Nikleby 8 Mrs Nikleby if he ould lend her a pen. 2 when she ould meet the luky young man. 3 if he had anything to say. 4 what he was doing there. 5 if he had run away with Smike. 3.4 Open answers a Kate: H (This man is very rude.) b Sir Mulberry: F (She s unfriendly but attrative.) 2 a Kate: A (She s jealous of me.) b Mrs Wititterly: G (Sir Mulberry omes to see her a lot.) 3 a Mrs Nikleby: C (He s rih and very important.) b Sir Mulberry: D (She s easy to ontrol.) 4 a Niholas: E (He s a lying oward.) b Sir Mulberry: B (He s unimportant.) A 2 E 3 D 4 B 5 H 6 G 7 C 8 F had met 2 had sat 3 had embarrassed 4 had felt 5 had left 6 had told 4.4 Open answers Squeers omes to London to find more pupils for Dotheboys Hall. 2 Smike works in the garden. 3 The rent is low and they offer to lend him money for the furniture. 4 True. 5 John Browdie pretends to feel ill Niholas / Charles Cheeryble 2 Charles Cheeryble / Niholas 3 Kate / Smike 4 Wakford Squeers / Smike 5 Smike / John Browdie 6 Wakford Squeers / Smike Ralph Nikleby was visit by Squeers. 2 The old gentleman was not offended by Niholas. 3 Niholas was taken aross London by the old gentleman. 4 You will be paid 120 pounds a year (by the brothers) 5 The garden has been made a plae of great beauty. 6 My wife s ring was stolen by this boy. 5.4 Open answers Kate (the others do not know) 2 Mr Bray, Arthur Gride, Ralph Nikleby a Brooker b he knows an interesting seret 2 a Mr Snawley b he says that he is his father Pearson Eduation Limited 2007 Niholas Nikleby - Answer keys of 3

8 Teaher Support Programme B1333 Answer keys LEVEL 4 Niholas Nikleby 3 a Madeleine b she refuses his help 4 a Charles Cheeryble b his wife loved him 5 a Arthur Gride b he wants to marry her 6 a Peg Sliderskew b she has stolen his business papers publily 2 aidentally 3 eventually 4 nervously 5 sornfully 6 Finally 6.4 Open answers Talk about it Open answers Write about it Open answers Projet Open answers Disussion ativities key 1 18 Open answers Ativity worksheets key 1 a 3 b? 3 d 7 e 7 f 3 2 a Smike b Newman Noggs Mrs Nikleby d Ralph Nikleby e Miss La Creevy f Wakford Squeers 3 a evil b persuade ageny d lodgings e hugged f relieved 4 a Fanny Squeers when she meets Niholas. b Tilda while she is having tea with Fanny, John and Niholas. Niholas when Fanny and Tilda fight for him. d Smike when Niholas allows him to go home with him. e Newman Noggs when he sees Niholas and Smike at the door of his house. f Kate when Ralph says that Niholas is a thief. 5 Open answers 6 a restaurant: hotel b mother: sister Niholas: the waiter d where he worked: his name and address e on horsebak: in a arriage f sorry: that they didn t need his help any more 7 a Wakford Squeers ame in. b didn t have a job. how muh he would be paid and that he ould move to the Cheeryble s ottage with his family. d was very happy and started working hard in the garden. e they pushed him inside a oah and took him to an ugly house. f he helped Smike esape. 8 a Madeline: Niholas and Mr Gride b John Browdie: Tilda Himself: Ralph d Madeline s mother: Charles e Kate: Sir Mulberry Hawk f Tilda: John Browdie 9 a Brooker 1 He wants money from Ralph 2 Brooker wants to tell Ralph something. b Ralph 1 He wants them to help him with his plans. 2 Ralph wants to take revenge on Niholas. Charles Cheeryble 1 He wants Niholas to visit Madeline and pay for her paintings. 2 He wants to help Madeline. d Mr Bray 1 He wants the money Niholas brought. 2 He wants a newspaper, fruit and wine. e Arthur Gride 1 He wants Ralph to talk to Mr Bray. 2 He wants to marry Madeline and have her little house to himself. f Niholas 1 He wants Newman to tell him everything about Madeline s marriage. 2 He wants to tell Madeline his true feelings for her. 10 a Peg Sliderskew b Frank Cheeryble Snawley d Squeers e Tim Linkinwater f Ralph Nikleby 11 a 2 b 5 1 d 3 e 4 f Open answers Progess test key 1 a begged b owed sighed d lerk 2 a 7 b 3 3 d 3 3 a Fanny Squeers had sent a letter to Ralph telling him that Niholas had attaked them and stolen a ring. b he was not a thief. that Niholas was a dangerous riminal. d beause of what he said about his brother. 4 a ompanion b shyness of love good for his business d rude unpleasant man e small theatre ompany Pearson Eduation Limited 2007 Niholas Nikleby - Answer keys 2 of 3

9 Teaher Support Programme B1333 Answer keys LEVEL 4 Niholas Nikleby 5 a 1 b 3 2 d 5 e 4 6 a being rude to his mother and sister: kidnapping Smike. b the man told him she was the Cheerybles niee: he pretend not to hear him. asked Ralph for help to take revenge: ran away to London feeling very embarrassed. 7 a 1 b a will b defeated grave d killed himself 9 a b d Pearson Eduation Limited 2007 Niholas Nikleby - Answer keys 3 of 3