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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This river begins in the Swiss Alps, passes through Lake Constance, flows west along the German-Swiss border, then turns north to form part of the German-French border. The river then flows north and joins with the Meuse and Scheldt to enter the North Sea | Rhine |
| Though only the second-longest river in France (behind the Loire), this river is of key importance, as it flows through Paris. Starting on the Plateau de Langres near Dijon, this river weaves northwest for 485 miles to enter the English Channel near Le H | Seine |
| This river is the principal river of the Iberian Peninsula. Rising in east-central Spain, it flows west for roughly 645 miles to the Atlantic, passing through Lisbon, Portugal on the way. The cities of Toledo and Santarém are on this river, and hydroelect | Tagus |
| One of Europe’s few major rivers to flow directly into the Mediterranean (via the Gulf of Lion), this river originates in the Swiss Alps and flows into Lake Geneva. It emerges from Geneva and flows south, passes through Lyon, Avignon, and Arles, and enter | Rhone |
| Most of this river is in Eastern Europe, but it begins in Germany’s Black Forest (Schwarzwald) near Freiburg, crossing Bavaria before it enters Austria. In all, it passes through (or touches the borders of) 10 nations on its 1,785-mile course ending at th | Danube |
| Italy’s longest river at 405 miles, it passes through Piedmont and Lombardy before entering the Adriatic 30 miles south of Venice. It flows through Turin and Cremona, and it passes near Milan, Padua, Pavia, and Mantua. The river has a long history of floo | Po |
| The London gentleman , the president of his namesake “club,” sets out with fellow members Nathaniel Winkle, Tracy Tupman, and Augustus Snodgrass on a series of coach journeys to sites in provincial England. While on their travels, the they foil the attem | The Pickwick Papers |
| The orphan is brought up in a workhouse, where he horrifies the beadle Mr. Bumble by asking for more food. The title character is then apprenticed to the undertaker Mr. Sowerberry. After fighting with the bully Noah Claypole, They run away to London. On t | Oliver Twist |
| After his father dies, the title character is sent to work at Dotheboys Hall by his cruel uncle Ralph. With the help of the disabled Smike, he beats the foul schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, and escapes to London. his sister Kate works with the milliner Mad | Nicholas Nickleby |
| hirteen-year-old Nell Trent goes to live with her grandfather, a gambling addict who owns a London shop filled with mysterious and horrible objects. His gambling causes him to lose the shop to the evil dwarfish moneylender Daniel Quilp. Nell’s older broth | The Curiosity Shop |
| The cold-hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley. Marley’s ghost, who wears heavy chains made of cash boxes and other symbols of greed, tells Scrooge to expect the arrival of thr | A Christmas Carol |
| Dickens’s favorite of his own books, and the most autobiographical. After the title character's father dies, his mother marries the cruel Mr. Murdstone. he is sent to a school where he is tormented by the headmaster Creakle, but finds comfort in his frie |
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