Year 8

Oliver is Taken by the Maylies

Year 8

Oliver is Taken by the Maylies

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will learn about empathy and discover what happens to Oliver when he is taken in by the Maylies.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What place is Bill attempting to burgle in this extract?
Correct answer: A house
A prison
The Sowerberry's house
The workhouse
Q2.
What must Oliver climb through in this burglary?
A chimney
A doorway
Correct answer: A window
Q3.
How is Oliver wounded during in this extract?
Oliver is punched.
Correct answer: Oliver is shot.
Oliver runs into a wall.
Q4.
What does Fagin attempt to train Oliver for?
Becoming a miser
Burgling houses
Correct answer: Pickpocketing
Q5.
Who locked Oliver in a cellar?
Fagin
Jack Dawkins
Mr Bumble
Correct answer: Mrs Sowerberry

5 Questions

Q1.
What is the name of the 17 year old orphan in Mrs Maylie's house?
Jack Dawkins
Noah
Correct answer: Rose
Q2.
What does Rose persuade Mrs Maylie NOT to do with Oliver?
Look after him.
Send him to court.
Correct answer: Send him to prison.
Send him to the workhouse.
Q3.
What does Rose persuade Mrs Maylie to do with Oliver?
Correct answer: Look after him.
Send him to court.
Send him to prison.
Send him to the workhouse.
Q4.
What does Mr Bumble blame for Oliver's attack on Noah?
Noah's bullying
Oliver's diet of gruel
Correct answer: The meat in Oliver's diet
Q5.
What prediction did the workhouse board member make about Oliver at the beginning of the story?
Correct answer: He will be hung.
He will become rich and respectable.
He will live and die in the workhouse.