Answer the questions.

1) How long did Oliver stay in the dark room?

2) What did the gentleman say to Oliver?

3) What did Oliver say to Mr. Bumble on their way to Mr. Sowerberry?

4) What did Oliver have for supper?

5) Where did Oliver sleep? Did he mind that?

6) Why did Oliver get into a fight with the apprentice?

7) What set Oliver’s blood on fire?

8) What did Oliver do when nobody could see or hear him?

9) What did Oliver do in the morning?

10) Whom did Oliver see in the workhouse yard?

11) What did Oliver say to his former companion?

12) What did Dick do?

13) What did Oliver never forget in his after life?

Put the sentences in the right order.

1) One day Oliver got into a fight with Mr. Sowerberry’s senior apprentice.

2) The child climbed up the low gate, and he put his little arms round Oliver’s neck.

3) They beat him cruelly and then dragged him to the dusty cellar and locked him up.

4) Oliver felt glad to see him, before he went; for, though younger than himself, the boy was his little friend and playmate.

5) Mrs. Sowerberry gave Oliver some leftovers, ignored by the dog.

6) The blessing was from a young child’s lips, but it was the first time Oliver heard such words addressed to him.

7) Oliver seized him by the throat, shook him, and collecting his whole force into one heavy blow, knocked him down.

8) With the first ray of light Oliver opened the door and went out.

Agree or disagree.

1) The gentleman informed Oliver that he would go as apprentice to a coffin-maker’s.

2) When there was nobody to see or hear him, he fell upon his knees on the floor and, hiding his face in his hands, laughed and laughed.

3) One day Oliver got into a fight with Mr. Sowerberry’s senior apprentice who said some very bad words about Mr. Bumble.

4) Oliver felt glad to see his former friend and playmate.

5) Oliver said to Dick that he was going to seek his fortune and that he knew where to go.

4. Fill in the prepositions: by, on, down, with, upon, in, into, for, at.

1) Oliver stayed in the dark room ___ a week.

2) Mr. Bumble looked ___ the poor child ___ some astonishment.

3) Oliver seized him ____ the throat, shook him, and collecting his whole force ___ one heavy blow, knocked him ___.

4) Oliver fell ____ his knees ___ the floor and, hiding his face ___ his hands, wept and wept.

Put the verbs, given in brackets, in the right tense form.

1) The child __(make) a strong effort, but it __(be) an unsuccessful one.

2) Oliver __ (cover) his face with both hands and __ (weep).

3) One day Oliver __ (get) into a fight with Mr. Sowerberry’s senior apprentice who __ (say) some very bad words about his mother.

4) “I am __ (run) away. They beat me, Dick; and I am __ (go) to seek my fortune, some long way off,” said Oliver.

5) “I___ (hear) how the doctor ___ (tell) them I was ___ (die),” ___ (reply) the child with a faint smile.

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