Charles Dickens Quiz 15 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is an opinion about Charles Dickens?

Correct Answer: C) He was the most important novelist of the 19th century.

2. What was the writer's full name?

Correct Answer: B) Charles John Huffam Dickens.

3. What did Dickens have in common with the protagonists of many of his novels?

Correct Answer: C) He came from a poor background.

4. What was Charles Dickens' job at the blacking factory?

Correct Answer: A) Labeling bottles.

5. Which of these was a pen name occasionally used by Dickens?

Correct Answer: C) Boz.

6. True or False? Charles Dickens became very famous and wealthy in his lifetime and worked hard for the welfare of the poor.

Correct Answer: A) True.

7. Why did he leave school when he was 11?

Correct Answer: B) The life was hard.

8. People value Charles Dickens' novels for their realism, humour, their love and sympathy for people.

Correct Answer: A) True.

9. When his father went to prison?

Correct Answer: B) When he was 11.

10. He was one of the ten children, and he killed two of them.

Correct Answer: B) No, he was one of the eight children.

11. What was the name of Charles Dickens wife?

Correct Answer: B) Catherine.

12. His family was poor.

Correct Answer: A) True.

13. Oliver Twist is an unusual Dickens novel because of its happy ending.

Correct Answer: B) FALSE.

14. Based on the writer's own experiences

Correct Answer: B) Biographical.

15. On whom was the charater of Mrs. Nickelby in Nicholas Nickleby based?

Correct Answer: C) Elizabeth Dickens.

16. He wrote 15 novels

Correct Answer: B) False.

17. When and where was Charles Dickens born?

Correct Answer: C) He was born in 1812.

18. Slavery and class difference were:

Correct Answer: B) The author's preferred topics.

19. He ..... in 1836.

Correct Answer: C) Died.

20. When and where did Dickens start work?

Correct Answer: A) Aged 12, at a boot blacking factory.