This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens > Charles Dickens – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Charles Dickens Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was Charles' job after his dad went to prison? A) Doctor. B) Banker. C) Journalist. D) Cook. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Journalist. 2. In which year Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol appear? A) 1844. B) 1848. C) 1842. D) 1846. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1844. 3. What was the pseudonym under which Charles Dickens published several articles? A) Dickens. B) Boz. C) Charlie. D) The pen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boz. 4. Who did Charles marry? A) Elisabeth. B) Sarah. C) Catherine. D) Grace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Catherine. 5. What is the title of the first NOVEL that Charles Dickens wrote? A) The Pickwick Papers. B) Sketches by Boz. C) A Christmas Carol. D) David Copperfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Pickwick Papers. 6. The plural of "life" is ..... A) Lifes. B) Lives. C) Livez. D) Of life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lives. 7. When did he stop writing? A) When he died. B) 1870. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When he died. 8. Dickens was popular for his wit (sense of humor) A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. David Copperfield and Oliver Twist are novels about ..... A) People who steal and run away. B) Abandoned and poor children. C) Parents of Charles Dickens. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abandoned and poor children. 10. Charles Dickens didn't work before he became famous. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. They ..... ten children. A) Had. B) Haved. C) Having. D) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had. 12. He had ..... siblings. A) 6. B) 7. C) 8. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7. 13. What work of Charles Dickens is classified as Novella? A) The Pickwick Papers. B) A Christmas Carol. C) Great Expectations. D) A Christmas Carol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Christmas Carol. 14. Dickens believed that A) People were forced into the workhouse by criminals. B) People were forced into crime by rich people. C) People were forced into crime by poverty and hunger. D) People were corrupt and evil from birth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People were forced into crime by poverty and hunger. 15. Indicate the correct statement about the birth of Dickens. A) He was born in Rochester and the memories of his life there were not captured in his works. B) He was born in Rochester and the memories of his life there can be seen in the images of docks, sailboats, tides . C) He was born in London, whose industrial life is perfectly reflected in his works. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He was born in Rochester and the memories of his life there can be seen in the images of docks, sailboats, tides . 16. Which was Charles Dickens' first novel? A) David Copperfield. B) Oliver Twist. C) The Pickwick Papers. D) Nicholas Nickleby. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Pickwick Papers. 17. Where his lived? A) In London. B) In Italy. C) In America. D) In France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In London. 18. Which of the following city did he die? A) London. B) Kent. C) Liverpool. D) Bristol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kent. 19. What did Charles do for his first job? A) Worked as a dishwasher. B) Trained horses. C) Cleaned bathrooms. D) Labeled bottles for 11 hours a day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Labeled bottles for 11 hours a day. 20. His novels include characters from a wide range of social backgrounds. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 21. Which novel was not written by Dickens? A) "Oliver Twist". B) "Dawid Copperfield". C) "The Pickwick Club". D) "Captain Grant's Children". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Captain Grant's Children". 22. What did Mr. Scrooge see in his future? A) The children's reaction to seeing him sad. B) His family's reaction to his illness. C) The family's reaction at his funeral. D) Your family's reaction at Christmas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The family's reaction at his funeral. 23. Dickens father was sent to Debtor prison. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. Where is Charles Dickens buried? A) Dover Beach. B) Oxford. C) Tintern Abbey. D) Westminster Abbey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Westminster Abbey. 25. What was his first published book? A) Great Expectations. B) Oliver Twist. C) David Copperfield. D) A Christmas Carol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oliver Twist. 26. At the age of twenty-four Charles Dickens published his first book. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. For which newspaper Charles Dickens reported Parliamentary debates? A) The Times. B) The Independent. C) Mirror of Parliament. D) Guardian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mirror of Parliament. 28. Which year was his first book published? A) 1824. B) 1819. C) 1837. D) 1852. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1837. 29. "Popular" means ..... A) Unhappy. B) Unknown. C) Famous. D) Infamous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Famous. 30. This Christmas Carol was written by Charles Dickens in 1843 and had the original title: A) The christmas song. B) A christmas story. C) Carol at Christmas. D) Christmas Carol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Christmas Carol. 31. What is the setting of the novel Oliver Twist? A) Tower Bridge. B) London's slums. C) Westminster Abbey. D) London Eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) London's slums. 32. A library is a place where you can borrow ..... A) Flowers. B) Plants. C) Books. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Books. 33. How much was Charles Dickens paid when he worked at Warren's Blacking Factory at the age of twelve? A) One guinea a week. B) Ten shillings a week. C) Six shillings a week. D) One pound a week. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Six shillings a week. 34. Why did Dickens never finish "Edwin Drood" A) He couldn't come up with the rest of the story. B) He went to prison. C) He refused to write anymore. D) He died. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He died. 35. His novels are very popular all over the world. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 36. The years between 1844 and 1848, where did Charles Dickens travel? A) France, England, Italy. B) Italy, France, Switzerland. C) Germany, Spain, England. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italy, France, Switzerland. 37. Money that you borrowed and need to return to someone A) Pickpockets. B) Orphans. C) Merchants. D) Debts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Debts. 38. Which important act was passed in 1870 the year of Dickens's death? A) Debtor Prison Act. B) Poor Act. C) Health Act. D) Education Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Education Act. 39. In which historical-literary period do Charles Dickes' novels belong? A) In the Elizabethan Age. B) In the Victorian Age. C) At the beginning of the 20th century. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the Victorian Age. 40. In which country was a statue created of him? A) USA. B) England. C) Swiss. D) Nowhere because he didn't want a statue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) USA. 41. Who's novels are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper level of society A) Charles Dickens. B) Emily Bronte. C) William Makepeace Thackeray. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Makepeace Thackeray. 42. The first his novel was Pickwick Papers A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 43. A factory is a place where people work with machines. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 44. On whom was the charater of Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield based? A) Hablot K. Browne. B) John Dickens. C) Augustus egg. D) John Forster. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Dickens. 45. The Christmas Story is a reflection on: A) The ambition and greed of the white man. B) The imposition of capitalism in the 19th century. C) Management of power and characterization of imperialism. D) Greed and superiority complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ambition and greed of the white man. 46. What is a theme in many of Dickens' works A) Racial equality. B) The consequences of ignorance and greed. C) People can never change. D) Society is fair for everyone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The consequences of ignorance and greed. 47. Charles Dickens was the second of eight children A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 48. The Parish Boy's Progress is the alternative title for which novel? A) Hard Times. B) Oliver Twist. C) Great Expectations. D) David Copperfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oliver Twist. 49. Which of the following would be a likely subject for a Dickens novel? A) The lives of people in Ancient Rome. B) The lives of working-class Londoners. C) The lives of Britain's wealthiest people. D) The lives of soldiers during a war. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The lives of working-class Londoners. 50. What is Charles Dickens full name? A) Charles John Huffam Dickens. B) Charles Jackson Harper Dickens. C) Charles James Harvey Dickens. D) Charles John Harry Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles John Huffam Dickens. 51. For what reason did charles dickens die? A) Death from stress. B) Old age. C) Died of cerebrovascular disease. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Died of cerebrovascular disease. 52. Charles Dickens, transferred events from his personal life to a space. A) Romantic and lively. B) Realistic and fictional. C) Tragic and direct. D) Direct and simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Realistic and fictional. 53. In late Victorian novels, faith in progress starts to increase, characters are portrayed as well-integrated in the world and external reality acquires more importance than their interior world. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 54. 'Hard Times' explores the value of the ..... A) Utilitarian philosophy. B) Inhumanity of the factory system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inhumanity of the factory system. 55. In Oliver Twist, C. Dickens questions the Victorian class-based idea that the poor are naturally good. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 56. How old was Dickens when he started working? A) 12. B) 14. C) 16. D) 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 12. 57. Which word best describes Dicken's childhood? A) Rich. B) Successful. C) Exciting. D) Impoverish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Impoverish. 58. When was he born? A) 12th February, 1832. B) 17th July, 1812. C) 7th March, 1822. D) 7th February, 1812. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7th February, 1812. 59. What caused young Charles Dickens to go to work in a boot polish factory? A) He was a poor student, and he dropped out of school. B) His parents wanted to teach him the value of work. C) He had to support his family. D) His writing had been rejected by publishers, and he had no other options. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He had to support his family. 60. Dickens' characters A) Embody real-life people. B) Embody particular vices or virtues. C) Portray psychological depth. D) Are complex and difficult to understand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Embody particular vices or virtues. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesCharles Dickens Quiz 1Charles Dickens Quiz 2Charles Dickens Quiz 3Charles Dickens Quiz 5Charles Dickens Quiz 6 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books