S U M M I N G - U P AC T I V I T I E S WORKING ON THE TEXT 1 Complete the following sentences with the appropriate character s name. a. ............................................................... wanted to control both David and his mother. b. ............................................................... told David he should never spend more than he earned, but he himself was always heavily in debt. c. ............................................................... always said that he was very humble. d. ............................................................... was David s best friend during the years he spent in Canterbury. e. ............................................................... was a lawyer who agreed to teach David if his aunt paid a fee of one thousand pounds. f. ............................................................... was a very proud lady who did not want her son to marry Emily. g. ............................................................... was too young when she married and wasn t able to be an efficient wife to David. h. ............................................................... became a successful writer. 2 Decide whether the following statements are true or false, then correct the false ones. T F a. David s mother married Mr Murdstone because she was poor and needed a man to help her and her son. b. David was sent to work in London just before his mother s death. c. When he was a boy, David admired Steerforth so much that he did not mind the bad things he did. d. Emily ran away with Steerforth because he had promised to marry her. e. David fell in love with Dora because he thought her very clever. f. Mr Wickfield thought Uriah Heep so indispensable that he was willing to let him marry Agnes. g. Miss Trotwood offered the Micawbers the possibility to start a new life in a new country. h. In the end, David finally found happiness with Agnes. 116