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' Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens ( Macmillian Stories to Remember ) Short questions and Answers: Chapter -2 and 3

                    Oliver Twist
                     Chapter-two

1.     When did Oliver reach Barnet?
Ans: Early on the seventh morning after he started out from Mr. Sowerberry's, Oliver limped wearily into the little town of Barnet, near London.
2.     What did Oliver think about going to London?
Ans: Oliver had decided in the early stage of his terrible journey to go to London, which he knew to be a large place and where he thought he would be safe from Mr. Bumble.
3.     According to Oliver, How was the little boy?
Ans: In Barnet, Oliver saw a little boy and he stared at that boy. According to Oliver, he saw a small, dirty boy with sharp, ugly eyes and bow legs, dressed in a man’s clothes which were much too big for him.
4.     What Oliver said to that boy?
Ans: When the boy wanted to know if Oliver was in trouble. On reply Oliver said, ‘I'm very hungry and tired .I have walked along way. I’ve been walking for seven days.'
5.     How the boy helped Oliver?
Ans: After hearing Oliver’s sorrowful story, the boy said, ‘You need food and you shall have it.' Up you comet' Helping Oliver to his feet, he led him to a nearby shop and brought him and bread.
6.     What was the boy’s name who helped Oliver?
Ans: Jack Dawkins.

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7.     By which name the boy’s friends call him?
Ans: Artful Dodger.
8.     How the boy informed Oliver about Fagin?
Ans: The boy said, ‘I know a respectable old gentleman in London, called Fagin, who'll give you lodgings for nothing, if. I introduce you.'



9.     How the Dodger led Oliver to the London?
Ans: Dodger led Oliver through a maze of dirty, evil smelling streets, full of screaming children and drunken men and women. Oliver, terrified at what he saw.
10.                        Where Oliver and the Dodger did go up?
Ans: Oliver and the Dodger went up a dark, broken staircase which the Dodger evidently knew well, and entered a back room.
11.                        How was the room that Oliver and the Dodger entered?
Ans: According to Oliver the walls and ceiling of the room were black with age and dirt. There was an old table before the fire. On the table were a candle stuck in a bottle, a few pots and a loaf of bread.
12.                        At the first sight of Oliver, How was the Jew?
Ans: The Jew was shriveled and villainous-looking. His horrible face was nearly hidden by a quantity of matted red hair and he wore a greasy flannel gown.
13.                        What was the condition around the Jew?
Ans: Behind the Jew there was was a rack covered with a great number of silk handkerchiefs. On the floor were several rough sacking beds. Round the table sat four or five boys, all of about Oliver's age, drinking spirits and smoking pipes with the air of middle-aged men.
14.                        What was the name of the Jew?
Ans: Fagin
15.                        How Fagin welcomed Oliver?
Ans: Fagin welcome Oliver by saying, ‘We are very glad to see you’
16.                        How the Jew beat the boys?
Ans: The Jew beat the boys off with the toasting-fork.

                          Chapter –Three

17.                        Who entered in the room in early morning?
Ans: The Dodger and Charley Bates entered in the room in early morning.
18.                        Who said, ‘they are very good ones’?
Ans: When Charley produced four large silk pocket-handkerchiefs, the Jew said, ‘they’re very good ones’.
19.                        Who taught Oliver how to mark anything on the pocket-handkerchiefs?
Ans: Charley
20.                        Who are the two young ladies?
Ans: The two young ladies are Bet and Nancy.
21.                        Who taught Oliver how to play the game?
Ans: Fagin taught Oliver how to play the game.
22.                        What was the game that Oliver was taught by Fagin?
Ans: Snatching something from somebody.
23.                        With whom Oliver went out from the Fagin’s room?
Ans: Oliver went out under the guardianship of the Dodger and Charley Bates.
24.                        What the Dodger and Charley doing at the time of walking?
Ans: At the time of walking, the Dodger teasing small children and Charley lifting the odd apple or onion from the traders' stalls at the roadside.
25.                        How was the man at the bookstall?
Ans: The old gentleman was smartly dressed and quite absorbed with the book he had picked up from the stall.
26.                        What did the dodger snatch from the gentleman?
Ans: The Dodger put his hand into the old gentleman's pocket, pull out his handkerchief and run off at full speed, followed by Charley.
27.                        How Oliver was taken to the police station?
Ans: Oliver was weak and shaken and dragged off to the police station with the old gentleman walking beside him and a large crowd staring and shouting.
28.                        Who was Mr. Fang?
Ans: Mr. Fang was the magistrate.
29.                        How was Mr. Fang?
Ans: Mr. Fang was a very bad-tempered man.
30.                        Who was named after as Mr. Brownlow by Mr. Fang?
Ans: The old gentleman
31.                        Who said that, ‘I knew he was pretending. Let him lie there’?
Ans: MR. Fang
32.                        How it is proved that Oliver was not a thief?
Ans: When Mr. Fang said to Brownlow that he would give Oliver 3 months punishment and after that an old man came and said, ' Stop! Stop!' he cried. ' I saw it all—I keep the bookstall. There were three boys. This one was not the thief. I saw that he was amazed at what he had seen.'
33.                        Where Oliver was taken from the police station?
Ans: Oliver was taken to the Mr. Brownlow’s house from the police station.
34.                        Where was Mr. Brownlow’s house?
Ans: Mr. Brownlow’s house was near the Penton Ville.

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