This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens > Charles Dickens – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Charles Dickens Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In what year was A Christmas Carol published? A) 1843. B) 1846. C) 1847. D) 1845. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1843. 2. In what form were his novels and stories published? A) All as one book. B) Separate novels. C) Installments/Series. D) In halves (1/2). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Installments/Series. 3. He died on ..... A) June 9 1860. B) June 9 1870. C) June 9 1970. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) June 9 1870. 4. What happened to Charles's family due to the debt? A) The entire family except for Charles went to prison. B) His father went to prison. C) The entire family went to prison. D) Nothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The entire family except for Charles went to prison. 5. Why was the writer's father imprisoned? A) Long. B) Tax fraud. C) Theft. D) Murder. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long. 6. What disaster did Dickens experience? A) Tsunami. B) Attempt. C) Snow avalanche. D) Train accident. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Train accident. 7. When did Charles dickens started to write Novels A) 23. B) 13. C) 20. D) 30. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 20. 8. Charles Dickens wrote many of his work by the nickname of Pickwick Paper. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 9. The Protagonist of A Christmas Carol is ..... A) Jocab Marley. B) Bob Cratchit. C) Ebenezer Scrooge. D) Tiny Tim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ebenezer Scrooge. 10. HIs wife's name was ..... A) Ellen Ternan. B) Catherine Hogarth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catherine Hogarth. 11. Dickens wanted to A) Denounce the nobles and rich. B) Open new schools. C) Denounce the social evils of the past. D) Denounce the social evils of the time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Denounce the social evils of the time. 12. What inspired Dickens to write about the poor? A) A story he read when he was little. B) His experience of being poor. C) Homeless people on his street. D) An old friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His experience of being poor. 13. The happiest years of Charles' childhood were in ..... A) Parliament. B) London. C) Portsmouth. D) Pickwick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Portsmouth. 14. His life was terrible and he ..... his job in the ..... A) Hated, factory. B) Hate, factory. C) Hated, shoes. D) Hate, newspaper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hated, factory. 15. We're going to read ..... A) Oliver Twist. B) Haunted Down. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haunted Down. 16. Charles Dickens was A) American. B) British. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) British. 17. Charles Dickens was born in ..... A) 1812. B) 1912. C) 1813. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1812. 18. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."These are the opening lines of A) Great Expectations. B) David Copperfield. C) A Tale of Two Cities. D) Hard Times. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hard Times. 19. What is the name of the first WORK that Charles Dickens had published? A) Great Expectations. B) Sketches by Boz. C) A Christmas Carol. D) The Pickwick Papers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sketches by Boz. 20. "taught" in the Past Tense is ..... in the Present. A) Teeth. B) Teach. C) Touch. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Teach. 21. Dickens lived in the A) 19th century. B) 18th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 19th century. 22. Dickens lived in London during the ..... century. A) 19th. B) 18th. C) 20th. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 19th. 23. Charles was ..... when he was sent to school. A) Nine. B) Six. C) Seven. D) Eight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seven. 24. How did Charles pay his father's debt? A) He sold all of the family's belongings. B) He sold their home. C) He worked in a dark, rat-infested warehouse. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 25. What did Charles do for a living before and during the time he was writing novels? A) Reporter. B) Professor. C) Actor. D) Writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reporter. 26. Charles Dickens is one of the greatestAmerican writers of all times. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 27. His career as a novelist started by accident A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 28. The novel 'Oliver Twist' made Charles Dickens famous. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 29. Where did he live? A) Kent. B) London. C) Manchester. D) Liverpool. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kent. 30. One of Charles Dickens' best-known works was: A) Christmas in the mountains. B) Singing in the sea. C) Oliver Twist. D) A cold night. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oliver Twist. 31. Mrs Gamp appears in which Dickens novel? A) Martin Chuzzlewit. B) Hard Times. C) The Mystery of Edwin Drood. D) Nicholas Nickleby. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Martin Chuzzlewit. 32. Charles Dickens was a: A) 19th century artistic representative. B) Author of stylistic prose. C) 19th century romantic artist. D) 19th century narrative author. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 19th century narrative author. 33. In C. Dickens' Hard Times, Mr Gradgrind stimulates his pupils' imagination which he considers good for education, since he believes that education should be based only on creativity. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 34. Which of these novels did Dickens NOT write? A) The Handmaid's Tale. B) A Tale of Two Cities. C) A Christmas Carol. D) Oliver Twist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Handmaid's Tale. 35. At what age did Charles Dickens die? A) 48. B) 58. C) 68. D) 88. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 58. 36. On what day did charles dickens die? A) July 15, 1957. B) June 9, 1870. C) February 7, 1812. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) June 9, 1870. 37. Dickens writes "A Christmas Carol" to ..... against the bad conditions that people live in. A) Protest. B) Admire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protest. 38. Oliver Twist was the third Dickens' novel A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 39. His mother ..... him to read and write. A) Teaches. B) Teach. C) Teached. D) Taught. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taught. 40. Why did Dickens's father go to prison when Dickens was 12? A) False accusation. B) Fraud. C) Debt. D) Theft. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Debt. 41. Which of these Dickens heroes recieves a large fortune from a mysterious benefactor? A) Eugene Wrayburn. B) Nicholas Nickleby. C) Philip Pirrip "Pip". D) Arthur Clennam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Philip Pirrip "Pip". 42. Charles had to work at ..... A) Blacking factory. B) Prison factory. C) Portsmouth factory. D) Automobile factory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blacking factory. 43. The elements present in the author's texts are: A) Satirical humor and criticism of bureaucracy. B) Tragic humor and a neutral stance on slavery. C) Constant criticism of the consolidation of the arts. D) He adopted realism in the artistic view of painting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satirical humor and criticism of bureaucracy. 44. He had worked as a reporter since fifteen. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 45. Where had Charles worked before he became famous? A) He had worked as a speech therapist before he became famous. B) He had worked as a news reporter before he became famous. C) He had worked as a TV reporter before he became famous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He had worked as a news reporter before he became famous. 46. At what age did Charles Dickens start school? A) 7. B) 9. C) 8. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9. 47. Why did Charles Dickens' father go to jail. A) His father was a thief. B) His father was in debt and he had to work in a shoe dye factory. C) Charles Dickens committed crime. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His father was in debt and he had to work in a shoe dye factory. 48. What happened to cause Charles to be taking care of himself at age 12? A) His parents died. B) His father went into debt-owed money. C) He ran away from home. D) All boys were on their own at age 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His father went into debt-owed money. 49. Which novel is more of a biography of Dickens' life than a work of fiction? A) Great Expectations. B) Where the Red Fern Grows. C) A Christmas Carol. D) David Copperfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) David Copperfield. 50. What was Charles Dickens's pen name? A) Dickens. B) Boz. C) Pickwick. D) Charles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boz. 51. Dickens was writing in what era? A) The Victorian era. B) The Edwardian era. C) The Elizabethan era. D) The Middle Ages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Victorian era. 52. Dickens wrote several Gothic novels. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 53. How old was Charles when he had to start working? A) 6. B) 27. C) 19. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12. 54. What happened when Charles landed in America? A) He was made fun of and mocked. B) Everyone loved him. C) No one knew who he was. D) People were angry at him. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was made fun of and mocked. 55. What is Scrooge's typical response to "Merry Christmas" ? A) "Bah! Humbug!". B) "Pah! Life's too short!". C) Bah! Nonsense!". D) "Oh, fiddlesticks!". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Bah! Humbug!". 56. What novel made Dickens famous? A) The Pushkin Papers. B) The Pickwick Papers. C) Oliver Twist. D) Nicholas Nickleby. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Pickwick Papers. 57. Which is the odd one out? A) Children. B) Kids. C) Boys and girls. D) Adults. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adults. 58. What do the protagonists of "Oliver Twist" and "Great Expectations" have in common? A) They're orphans. B) They marry rich women. C) They spend time in prison. D) They're forced to work in factories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They're orphans. 59. How many years did Dickens live? A) 54. B) 58. C) 71. D) 78. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 58. 60. He was fond of journalism A) False. B) True. 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