Name: _____________
Date: ______________
Ch. 2: Life With Mr Sowerberry
1. How was Oliver’s life in the cellar?
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2. Who is Mr Sowerberry? How was he like?
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3. Why did Mr Sowerberry often come to the workhouse?
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4. How was Oliver when Mr Bumble told him the news? What was the news?
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5. Where did Oliver go?
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6. How was the coffin-maker’s shop?
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7. How was Mrs Sowerberry?
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8. How did Mrs Sowerberry treat Oliver?
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9. Where is Oliver’s new bed?
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10. How was Oliver’s first night in the coffin-maker’s shop?
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11. What do you think of Mrs Sowerberry? How did she treat Oliver?
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12. Who was kicking the door in the early morning?
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13. What did Noah Claypole ask Oliver to do?
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14. Why did Noah make Oliver’s life very difficult?
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15. Why did Noah get jealous?
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16. How did Noah try to make Oliver cry?
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17. Why did Oliver hit Noah so hard?
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18. Why did Charlotte, Mrs Sowerberry and Mr Sowerberry hit Oliver and
lock him?
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19. Where was Oliver locked?
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20. What was Oliver’s punishment because of hitting Noah?
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1. One morning, at the end of that week, Mr Bumble saw ______________ ,
the ______________ maker, outside the ______________.
2. He just pulled the cap down over his eyes to hide his tears, and followed
______________ through the streets to the ____________________________.
3. Oliver would grow on the Sowerberry’s _______ and _______! He looked
like little bag of __________.
4. Mrs Sowerberry pushed Oliver down some stairs into a dark little
______________ where a ______________ girl was working.
5. Oliver’s bed was under the ______________. He was sleeping with the
______________. He felt ______________. He was very ______________
and hardly slept all night.
6. “I am ______________________ , and you must do what I tell you. Now
take the ______________ down and hurry up.”
7. Mr Sowerberry was ______________ to Oliver. When Noah noticed
this, he got ______________. He was always ______________ to Oliver
and made his life very ______________.
8. Charlotte locked Oliver in the ______________ until Mr Sowerberry
came home.
9. Alone with the ____________ coffins, Oliver ____________ into tears.
10. Oliver tied all his things up in a big _________________.
1. “I need a boy to work in my shop.”
-Who said to whom and where? __________________________________________
- What kind of shop is it? _______________________________________________
2. “He’ll grow on our food and drink! Get downstairs, you little bag of
bones!”
- Who said to whom? ___________________________________________________
- Who did she refer to? _________________________________________________
3. “Give this boy those bits of meat the dog didn’t eat.”
- Who said to whom?__________________________________________________
- Who is that boy? Would he eat them? Why? __________________________
4. “Help! Oliver’s murdering me!”
- Who said to whom? __________________________________________________
- Why did Oliver hit the speaker? ______________________________________