' Oliver Twist ' by Charles Dickens ( Macmillian Stories to Remember ) Short questions and Answers : ChaptER 1

                     Oliver Twist

                             Chapter-One

1.      When Oliver was born?

Ans: Oliver was born in 1837, in the local poorhouse of a certain English town.

2.      How Oliver’s mother died?

Ans:   As Oliver gave his first cry, his mother stirred under the thin coverlet on the iron bedstead and muttered feebly,. ‘Let me see the child’. The mother shook her head stretched out her arms for her child and. The doctor gave it to her. She kissed it desperately, then put her hands to her face and fell back dead.

3.       What the nurse said to the doctor about Oliver’s mother?

Ans: The nurse said, 'She was brought here last night. She was found lying in the street. She'd walked a long way, for her shoes were worn out, but nobody knows where she came from or where she was going.'

4.      How the doctor came to know that Oliver’s mother was unmarried?

Ans: When the doctor leaned over the body of Oliver’s mother and raised the left hand there was no wedding ring. From this the doctor came to know that Oliver’s mother was unmarried.

5.      How the nurse dressed Oliver after his birth?

Ans: The nurse dressed Oliver in the old cotton robes worn by poorhouse infants.

6.      Who was Mr Bumble?

Ans: Mr. Bumble was the town beadle.

7.      Who gave the surname Twist?

Ans: Oliver was given the surname Twist by Mr Bumble, the town beadle.

8.      How Mr Bumble gave Oliver’s name?

Ans: Mr Bumble named the nameless infants of the poorhouse in alphabetical order, and he had reached the letter ‘T’. Consequently he named the surname of Oliver as Twist.

9.      How was Mr. Bumble?

Ans: Mr Bumble was a stupid, fat and self-important man, but unfortunately he had great power over the miserable poor people of the town. He ill-treated and starved the poorhouse inhabitants and when anything went wrong or someone died, he was quite prepared to swear to whatever would keep the jury from asking any awkward questions.

10. Who took care Mr. Bumble during his childhood?

Ans: Mrs. Mann took care Mr Bumble during his childhood.

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11. What work did Mrs Mann?

Ans: Mrs Mann used to rear a large number of  destitute orphans on payment by the town authorities of seven pence halfpenny for each child for each week.

12. What did Mrs Mann with the money given by the town Authority?

Ans: The greater part of the money Mrs Mann used for herself and she did not feed or clothe the miserable children at all adequately.

13. What was the condition of Oliver at the of 9?

Ans: When Oliver was nine, he was a pale, thin child, very small for his age.

14. How Oliver passed his 9^th birthday?

Ans: Oliver was spending his 9^th birthday locked in the coal cellar with two other boys, after a sound thrashing, for the great crime of daring to be hungry.

15. How Oliver was greeted by Mrs. Mann during his 9^th birthday?

Ans: When Oliver Twist announced to Mrs. Ann that it is his 9^th birthday. Then Mrs. Mann greeted him with a great show of false pleasure. 'Bless him’, said Mrs. Mann, pretending to wipe tears from her eyes.

16. What did Mrs. Mann when Oliver became 9 years old?

Ans: When Oliver became 9 years old, Mrs. Mann said to him, 'And in spite of an offered reward of ten pounds and great efforts by the town authorities we've what was his mother's name Or family. Oliver is now too old to remain here, once.' him back to the poorhouse.

17. What was the condition of Oliver when he was taken back to the poorhouse?

Ans: When he was taken back to the poorhouse, he became sad. With the poorhouse cap on his head, Oliver was led away in tears. He wept for loneliness at parting from the only friends he had ever had-his little companions in misery in the wretched home, where no one had ever given him a kind word or look.

18. Why Oliver appeared before the board of the poorhouse?

Ans: At the poorhouse Oliver appeared before the board which administered it and was told that he had come there to be educated and taught a useful trade since he had no father or mother.

19. What the gentleman advised to Oliver?

Ans: The gentleman advised to Oliver, 'I hope you say your prayers every night and pray for the people who feed you and take care of you like a Christian’.

20. How Oliver slept in the poorhouse on his first night?

Ans: At night Oliver was hurried away to a large dormitory, where on a rough hard bed he sobbed himself to sleep.

21. Why the board of poor house slowly starved the orphans?

Ans: The board of the poorhouse had recently decided that life for the inmates must be made even more unpleasant for them than it had been before, if that were possible. They were to be slowly starved in the hope that they would leave the poorhouse and the town would no longer have to support them from public funds.

22. When the system of starvation started by the board of poor house?

Ans: The system of starvation started by the board of poor house during the first six months after Oliver’s arrival there.

23. How the boys were fed in the poorhouse?

Ans: The boys had three meals a day. At each one the master of  the poorhouse served each boy with one bowl of watery porridge.

24. What happened when Oliver asked for more food?

Ans: When Oliver asked for more food then the master aimed a. Blow at Oliver's head, seized.  him by the arms and shouted for the beadle.

25. How Oliver was punished due to asking more food?

Ans: For a week Oliver remained locked up. Every other day, he was carried to the hall where the other boys ate and publicly beaten as a warning to the others. Nobody seemed to want him, even with the reward of five pounds.

26. Who had agreed to take Oliver to work for him?

Ans: Mr. Sowerberry, the local undertaker, had agreed to take Oliver to work for him.

27. How were Mr. Sowerberry and his wife?

Ans :Mr. Sowerberry was a tall thin man, dressed always in black, as suited his trade. His wife was a short, thin, unkind-looking woman. They were both unkind to Oliver.

28. How Oliver passed his days in Mr. Sowerberry’s house?

Ans: In Mr. Sowerberry’s house Oliver was cursed, beaten, fed on scraps which the dog refused and made to sleep under the workshop bench among the coffins. He did not like his work, but he could do nothing except stay there for several months.

29. What was the full name of Noah?

Ans: Noah Claypole.

30. How Oliver left Mr. Sowerberry’s house?

Ans: Oliver was locked in a coffin. That night Oliver wept bitterly. When the first light of dawn showed through the shutters, he rose and silently unbarred the door and crept into the empty street. Thus he left Mr. Sowerberry’s house.

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