The Marshalsea
Humor in Little Dorrit
Match the famous lines with the character
Little Dorrit
potpourri
100
This is another name (preferred by Mr. Dorrit) for the inmates at the Marshalsea Prison.
What are collegians?
100
Mrs. Bangham, the "midwife" at the Marshalsea, finds herself in a series of compromising situations in large part because of this.
What is liquor or alcohol?
100
"Ill give you such a dose, I will!"
Who is Mr. Flintwinch?
100
What piece of attire does Little Dorrit wear when she visits Arthur for the first time in prison?
What is Little Dorrit's prison dress?
100
Where Mr. F's aunt parks herself at the end of LD. She refuses to leave this establishment and is seen as quite a spectacle.
What is a pie-shop?
200
This is John Chivery's occupation.
What is a turnkey
200
Mrs. Merdle's sarcastic and satirical pet.
What is a parrot?
200
"If you wish to know the complaint I make against you, it is, in so many plain words, that you rally ought not to go into Society, unless you can accommodate yourself to Society."
Who is Mrs. Merdle?
200
Little Dorrit makes a little money in what occupation?
What is a seamstress?
200
The commonality between Miss Wade as a child and Tattycoram?
What is an orphan?
300
This is how Mr. Dorrit refers to his preformed form of payment.
What are testimonials?
300
"When we lived at Henley, Barnes's gander was stolen by tinkers."
Who is Mr. F's aunt?
300
"For it was not well of the fair Gowana to make mysteries of letters from old lovers, in her bedchamber on the mountain, that he husband might not see them."
Who is Blandois?
300
The word most closely attributed to Little Dorrit, the character.
What is Duty or Dutiful or Duty-bound.
300
What Mrs. General does in order to put a "gleam" or a coating on everything she touches.
What is to varnish or to polish
400
This is the closest thing to a pub at the prison. It is also where Arthur spends the night on the evening he is locked in. It begins with an S.
What is the snuggery?
400
What young Barnacle, in an effort to look like a genteman, keeps dropping this into his soup.
What is his eye-glass.
400
"I am in general, a dry, uncomfortable, dreary Plodder and Grubber. That's your humble servant."
Who is Mr. Pancks?
400
The original title for Little Dorrit.
What is Nobody's Fault.
400
Dickens co-founded a home for the redemption of "fallen women". The women would learn domestic skills as a form of rehabilitation.
What is Urania Cottage?
500
Before John Chivery and his father, there was another warden of the prison gates who was quite fond of Amy Dorrit. He meant to leave her money in his will, but died before it was done.
Who is Bob?
500
...HE ENCOUNTERED HIS RIVAL, IN A DISTRESSED STATE, AND FELT INCLINED TO HAVE A ROUND WITH HIM; BUT FOR THE SAKE OF THE LOVED ONE, CONQUERED THOSE FEELING OF BITTERNESS, AND BECAME MAGNANIMOUS
What is John Chivery's imagined gravestone inscription.
500
'...he ogled a great ______ ______ _____ _____ with particular satisfaction.'
What is beam over his head?
500
This is is what Arthur sees upon waking from his delirium and what signals that Amy has been in his prison room.
What is a nosegay? or, flowers in a small vase?
500
Affery's euphamism for Mrs. Clennam and Mr. Flintwinch.
What are "the two clever ones."
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