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After Jos’s letter, It became clear to every soul in the house, except poor Amelia, that Rebecca should …, and high and low agreed that, that event should take place as speedily as possible.

• marry G. Osborne
• take her departure
• marry Jos
• stay in Russell Square

«It was …, Jos», Mr. Sedley said, «to torment the poor boy so».

• quite wicked of you
• a good idea
• very funny
• unjust but necessary

Jos almost drew away the audience who were gathered round the musicians and received from hearers a …

• bottle of champagne
• great deal of mockery
• great bouquet of roses
• great deal of applause

Then, seizing Captain Dobbin’s hand and weeping in the most pitiful way, he …

• asked Dobbin to come with him to variety-show
• confided to that gentleman the secret of his loves
• invited that gentleman to join their company at the pub
• asked Dobbin to go with him to India

Osborne: « I give Miss Sharp warning, that right or wrong , I consider Amelia is the … in the world».

• best painter
• best housekeeper
• first singer
• first dancer

Miss Sedley’s papa was … in London, a man of some wealth.

• an artist
• a doctor
• a lawyer
• a merchant

Mr. Sedley said that his son Jos was …

• toiler, honest and assiduous
• modest, kind and decent
• vain, selfish and lazy
• hardworking, stubborn and ambitious

Rebecca: «I’ll do it, when I’m gone», and she dropped her voice and look so …, that everybody felt how cruel her lot was, and how sorry they would be to part with her.

• beautiful
• happy
• sad and piteous
• angry and indignant

A woman with fair opportunities , and without an absolute hump, …

• can marry only a very poor man
• may marry whom she likes
• can marry only an ugly man
• will be happy to marry any man.

How Rebecca now felt the want of … who would have managed the business in ten minutes.

• a tender-mother
• a husband
• a kind friend and protector
• a girl-friend

Cuff’s fight with …. and the unexpected issue of that contest, will long be remembered by every man.

• Osborne
• Tom
• Joe Sedley
• Dobbin

As Mr. Sedley talked on, he grew quite bold, and actually had the audacity to ask Rebecca for whom she was knitting the green silk purse. «…», replied Rebecca, looking at him.

• For Linda Martin, my friend from Miss Pinkerton’s school
• For any one who wants a purse
• For my best friend Amelia
• For you, my dear fellow

Amelia insisted upon Rebecca accepting …

• a pair of new shoes
• 2 volumes of the new novels
• a new beautiful frock
• white cornelian necklace

Before the bottle of champagne was emptied, of which Jos took …, he had agreed to take the young ladies to Vauxhall.

• only one-fifth
• two thirds
• nearly the half
• only one goblet

I don’t know on what pretext Osborne left the room, or why, presently, Amelia went away, perhaps to …

• gossip with the housekeeper
• slice the pine-apple
• talk with her father
• meet a postman

The happiness, the superior advantage of the young women round about her gave Rebecca …

• a sense of rejoicing at other persons’ wellbeing
• a bitter feeling of disappointment and despair
• inexpressible pangs of envy
• an acute desire to change the world she lived in

And presently the voices of the two speakers , Mr. and Mrs. Sedley, were hushed and replaced by the …

• beautiful ringing of the church bells
• ticking of the old clock
• gentle but unromantic music of the nose
• singing of a lark

Old Sedley was a …

• stockbroker
• artist
• banker
• rich farmer

Even Miss Pinkerton, that … , ceased scolding Amelia after the first time.

• austere and godlike woman
• kind and gentle creature
• cruel and envious person
• strict but just teacher

«My dearest Amelia», said G. Osborne, «you don’t know the world. I do. And your little friend Miss Sharp must …».

• go to India with Jos
• marry Jos as soon as possible
• learn her station
• help Jos change his life and make it better

Captain Dobbin easily conveyed Mr. Jos Sedley into a hackney-coach which deposited him safely at …

• the church
• the pub
• his club
• his lodgings

Respectable parents set their houses topsy-turvy and spend a lot of money in ball suppers and iced champagne to …

• marry their daughters
• break the monotony of everyday life
• see young people happy and dancing
• please their children

When Rebecca saw the two magnificent Cashmere shawls which Joseph Sedley had brought to his sister she said that ….

• had just the same in color and size
• he might have been more generous
• it must be delightful to have a brother
• they were too lavish gifts

«Order Mr. Joe’s elephant, Sambo», cried the father , but seeing Joe really almost to …, the old joker stopped his laughter .

• cry with vexation
• jump to his feet
• run out of the room
• faint

Miss Sharp’s eyes were so attractive that … fell in love with her.

• lexicographer Johnson
• all the teachers
• the Reverend Mr. Crisp
• all the girls on Chiswick Mall

… used to come for Cuff to ride home on Saturdays.

• Perambulator
• Ponies
• The car
• The carriage

Amelia received the reply through Jos’s man that his master was …

• going to visit them at 5 o’clock
• willing to come to his friends
• ill in bed and had the doctor with him
• safe and sound and was going to meet his friends at the station.

«The curry was capital, indeed it was», said Joe, quite gravely. «Perhaps, there was not enough … in it; no there was not»

• vinegar
• salt
• sugar
• citron juice

William Dobbin retreated to …. , where he passed a half holiday in the bitterest sadness and woe.

• the stable
• the church
• a remote out house in the playground
• the garden

When Rebecca was at the Mall she …

• was consumed with grief for her lost friends
• was glad to have got rid of her unhappy life in the family
• was quite indifferent both to her old life and to her new position
• looked back to the freedom and the beggary of the old studio in Soho

If a dear girl has no dear mamma to … , she must do it for herself.

• walk with her
• help her with her lessons
• settle matters with the young men
• choose stylish clothes

«O heavenly, heavenly …. !» — exclaimed Miss Sharp and held them to her bosom and cast up her eyes to the ceiling, in an ecstasy of admiration.

• necklace
• flowers
• perfume
• sweets

Figs, alone in the schoolroom was …, when Cuff, entering, bade him go upon some message which tarts were probably the subject.

• reading the Bible
• reading the fairy tales
• writing a letter to his mother
• praying

Rebecca lived among young girls at the Mall for two years and …

• Miss Pinkerton could not help attaching to her
• she made friends with some of them
• not one was sorry that she went away
• only servants were crying when she was leaving

Miss Pinkerton was known to write personally to the parents of her pupils only when her pupils …

• had poor marks
• fell ill
• quitted the establishment
• behaved in a bad way

Amelia: «You know, mamma, Rebecca’s father was our … at Chiswick».

• teacher of Latin
• stable-man
• cook
• drawing-master

Miss Pinkerton’s academy was for …

• girls from rich but unhappy families
• young ladies
• girls wishing to become governess and teachers
• orphaned and handicapped children

«By Gad, Miss Rebecca, I wouldn’t hurt you again.» «No», she said, «I know you wouldn’t», and then she ….

• gave him ever so gentle a pressure with her little hand
• showed him her back
• stood up and went to her room
• gave him a kiss

Rebecca interested Mrs. Blenkinshop, the housekeeper, be evincing the deepest sympathy in …, which operation was then going in the kitchen.

• the fish peeling
• sauerkraut soup cooking
• the tart making
• the raspberry-jam preserving

Figs, being a …., brought his arm into action and hit at Cuff’s left eye.

• blind in one-eye man
• deaf man
• madman
• left-hand man

It was … who won the love of everybody in the Mall.

• Miss Amelia Sedley
• Miss Pinkerton
• Miss Jemima
• Miss Rebecca Sharp

Rebecca kissed Mr. Sedley’s hand when he …

• said she was the naivest girl in the world.
• said she must marry his son
• presented her with the purse
• proposed to her

Dobbin burst out laughing at himself, for the truth is, he could sing no better than …

• a crow
• a goat
• an owl
• a bear

As for the girls, Amelia and Rebecca, they …

• loved each other like sisters
• were indifferent to each other
• ignored each other
• hated each other like sworn enemies

Mr. Sedley could not endure his son’s …

• manner of munching noisily
• smoking in the room
• habit of sniffing at table
• airs as a man of fashion

Dobbin had for once forgotten the world and was away with Sindbad the Sailor in the Valley of Diamonds, when … woke up his pleasant reverie.

• singing of a little girl
• shrill cries, as of a little weeping fellow
• rumble of the wheels
• the singing of the bird

Rebecca kissed the … as she put it on and woved she would never part with it.

• an old brooch in the form of a crocodile
• pearl necklace
• white coarnelian necklace
• mother’s diamond ring

As the coach drove off, Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and flung the … into the garden.

• sandwiches
• book
• flower
• letter

Speaking about her life in Miss Pinkerton’s academy Rebecca said that she

• would like to run a house of that kind herself
• had been treated worse than any servant in the kitchen by Miss Pinkerton
• would like to come back some day to see her friends there
• could say nothing particular about that period in her life

Amelia determined in her heart to ask her mother’s permission to present … to her friend Rebecca.

• some money
• white cashmere shawl
• a diamond ring
• several Indian souvenirs