Round 11: Tossup 20

This character is shot in the arm while helping Toby attempt a botched robbery. For calling his mother a “regular right-down (15[1])bad ‘un”, Noah Claypole is beaten up by this character, (-5[2])leading to him being fired from an undertaker’s. (15[1])This character is briefly (-5[1])cared for by Rose Maylie, (15[1])who is told of his half-brother Monks’ plot to corrupt him by (*) Nancy. (-5[1])After being taken in by a man whose handkerchief he is framed for stealing, this character is kidnapped by Bill Sikes, (10[1])who returns him to Fagin and the gang (10[1])of pickpockets (10[1])who take him in. For 10 points, what Dickens title character asks “please sir, (10[1])I want some more” gruel? ■END■ (10[1])

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