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appetites : natural craving for food

council : meeting
poorhouse : building where poor people/children are
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maintained at public expense
hardly known : almost not known

excitement : feeling strongly
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horror : feeling of extreme fear
miserable : very unhappy, wretched

invented : [here] coined

starved : to go without food
Read and Write :

c3 Read and discuss your responses with your partner. Then write.
1. Briefly explain the circumstances under which Oliver Twist

was born.

2. How can you say that Oliver’s mother was a poor woman?

3. What kind of a man was Mr. Bumble?

4. Why were the boys always hungry?

5. How did the children plan to satisfy their hunger?

6. What was the result of Oliver’s request for more food?
7. Why did Mr. Bumble get a notice pasted outside the gate?

Explain.

8. Sum up Oliver’s birth and his life in the Poorhouse.

9. Briefly narrate the events that led to Oliver being locked up in
a room.

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