Oliver Twist: Ejercicios de Inglés con Respuestas sobre la Novela de Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist: ejercicios de inglés sobre la novela de Charles Dickens

Match a number from A with a letter from B to make complete sentences.

1 D The workhouse boys chose Oliver ... to ask for more food.

2 A Oliver ran away from the undertaker’s shop ... to find work in London.

3 B When Nancy saw Oliver ... she pretended to be his sister.

4 E Oliver went to see Mr Brownlow ... but he had moved to the West Indies.

5 C Monks wanted Oliver to die ... so he could keep all the money himself.

Who said this in the story?

‘Please, sir, I want some more.’ ... Oliver

‘Is my poor little brother Oliver here?’ ... Nancy

‘So you wanted to get away, my dear, did you?’ ... Fagin

‘Never let me hear the boy’s name again.’ ... Mr Brownlow

‘If you don’t steal it, someone else will.’ ... Artful Dodger

‘If he tries any tricks on me, I’ll kill him.’ ... Sikes

‘My brother Oliver will never see that money!’ ... Monks

‘I’ve gone too far to change my life now.’ ... Nancy

‘My blood boils with anger.’ ... Mr Brownlow

‘You’ll always be my own dear sister!’ ... Oliver

Fill in the gaps

Fagin chose Oliver for the robbery because he was small with an innocent face. Sikes took Oliver across London to a big house and put him through the window to open the door. But someone fired a gun and hit Oliver.

Characters

Match two of these characters with each description.

a The beadle ... he married. Mr Bumble and Mrs Corney

b The boy ... Sowerberrys’ Noah Claypole, Charlotte

c A violent robber and his lover Bill Sikes, Nancy

d A rich old ... housekeeper Mr Brownlow, Mrs Bedwin

e An older woman ... beautiful niece. Mrs Maylie, Rose

Setting

Choose the best answer.

1 After Oliver was born, his mother died.

2 The two people present at Oliver’s birth were an old woman and a local doctor.

3 Oliver’s mother in the workhouse for one night.

4 Oliver was sent to a ‘baby farm’ because there was no one to look after him.

5 Oliver and thirty children rolled around on the floor all day at the ‘baby farm’.

6 Mrs Mann said that she kept gin to give to the children as medicine.

7 Oliver cried when he left the ‘baby farm’ because he was leaving his friends.

8 In the workhouse, Oliver was chosen by the other boys to ask for more food.

9 Oliver stayed as a prisoner for a week before he went to work for the undertaker.

10 There was a notice on the wall ... five pounds to anyone who would take Oliver Twist for work.

Characters

Choose the best answer.

11 At the age of nine Oliver was pale, thin and short for his age.

12 Mr Bumble gave Oliver his name.

13 All the local shop-boys had insulted Noah Claypole because he wore the uniform of a charity-boy.

14 The Artful Dodger met Oliver on the road to London.

15 Oliver thought that Fagin had an ugly face.

16 Mrs Bedwin was the housekeeper for Mr Brownlow.

17 Bill Sikes had a dirty handkerchief around his neck.

18 Mr Grimwig was an old friend of Mr Brownlow’s.

19 Mr Bumble asked Mrs Corney to marry him.

20 Oliver first met Monks outside the pub.

Dialogue

Who said this?

21 ‘You’ll sleep here, among the coffins.’ Mrs Sowerberry

22 ‘I only tried to frighten you, my dear.’ Fagin

23 ‘Are they trying to murder you, Fagin?’ Bill Sikes

24 ‘But it’s a good life. What does it matter where the money comes from?’ the Dodger

25 ‘But he’s so young, too! Can you really believe this poor boy is a criminal?’ Rose

26 ‘I’d recognize him anywhere.’ Monks

27 ‘Every Sunday night, between eleven and twelve, I will walk on London Bridge if I am alive.’ Nancy

28 ‘I once thought that he was a liar and a thief.’ Mr Brownlow

29 ‘I will admit everything – in front of witnesses, if necessary.’ Monks

30 ‘I can never call you aunt. You’ll always be my own dear sister!’ Oliver

Vocabulary

Choose the best answer.

31 a person who prepares the dead for burial = undertaker

32 to take hold of something violently = seize

33 a male employer, the man in control = master

34 a small ornamental case, worn on a chain around the neck = locket

35 similarity = resemblance

36 full of violent anger = furious

37 to walk or move unsteadily as if about to fall = stagger

38 a kind of former police officer who deals with the poor people of a district = beadle

39 to damage badly or destroy = ruin

40 to steal someone away by force = kidnap

Plot

Choose the best answer.

41 Mr Sowerberry decided to train Oliver in the undertaking business because he was sad.

42 Oliver attacked Noah Claypole and knocked him to the ground when he said his mother was a bad woman.

43 Oliver was saved from going to prison for three months because the bookshop owner told the magistrate what happened.

44 Bill Sikes needed Oliver to climb through a small window so that he could steal from Mrs Maylie’s house.

45 Mrs Maylie said that Harry could not marry Rose because of her doubtful birth.

46 Mr and Mrs Bumble met Monks in a ruined old house.

47 Nancy went to see Rose to tell her Monks was Oliver’s brother.

48 Bill Sikes decided to kill his dog because he thought people would be looking for him and the dog.

49 Oliver discovered that his father died before he was born.

50 Fagin told Oliver that the papers Monks gave him were in a bag up his chimney.