This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens > Charles Dickens – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Charles Dickens Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where did Charles Dickens Live? A) London. B) Mexico. C) Germany. D) New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) London. 2. He didn't ..... at home. He ..... in a small room. A) Live, slept. B) Live, sleep. C) Lived, slept. D) Lived, sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Live, slept. 3. What jobs did Dickens have to help support his family before he was a writer? A) Lawyer. B) Dockworker, casket maker. C) Factory worker, reporter. D) A tax collector. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Factory worker, reporter. 4. Which famous children's author was once an unwanted houseguest at Dickens' house? A) Beatrix Potter. B) Lewis Carroll. C) J.M. Barrie. D) Hans Christian Andersen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hans Christian Andersen. 5. Oliver Twist is a bildungsroman on the adventures of an orphan A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 6. What was his childhood like? A) He studied reading when he was 6. B) He learned to read at an early age and read many books in his childhood. C) He learned to read at a late age and read few books in his childhood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He learned to read at an early age and read many books in his childhood. 7. Awards By Charles dickens A) Oscar. B) Man Booker Prize. C) National Book Award. D) None he hasnt had any awards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None he hasnt had any awards. 8. How is the Ghost of Christmas Present represented? A) AS AN INVISIBLE SPECTER. B) AS A JOLLY GIANT. C) AS A SMALL, ELDERLY MAN. D) AS A SILENT PHANTOM. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AS A JOLLY GIANT. 9. The great comfort Charles Dickens found in the world of books was later described in the ..... A) Dombey and Son. B) Bleak House. C) David Copperfield. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) David Copperfield. 10. Charles ..... Catherine when he ..... 24 years old. A) Married, was. B) Marry, is. C) Married, is. D) Marry, was. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Married, was. 11. What did Charles Dickens die of? A) For a heart attack. B) The cause of his death is unknown. C) Because of age. D) For a stroke. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) For a stroke. 12. What are two of his most famous books? A) A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities. B) A Tale of Two Cities and Oliver Twist. C) Great Expectations and David Copperfield. D) Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol. 13. Dove nascque Charles Dickens? A) In London. B) A Portsmouth. C) To Edinburgh. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Portsmouth. 14. Charles died in a train crash. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. He also ..... stories. A) Writes. B) Wrote. C) Write. D) Writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wrote. 16. Dickens first stories were "serialized" which means A) Released the entire book on a specific date. B) Released excerpts of each chapter before releasing entire book. C) Released a few chapters at a time. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Released a few chapters at a time. 17. The word spectrum is defined as: A) Reflection projected under the light. B) Optical illusion. C) Unreal figure, I would imagine the fantastic. D) The reflections of an ancestral image. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unreal figure, I would imagine the fantastic. 18. What effect did "The Pickwick Papers" have on Dickens's career? A) It prevented him from writing further novels. B) It made him into a celebrity. C) It won him several prestigious awards. D) It forced him to become a journalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It made him into a celebrity. 19. To whom does Scrooge send the Christmas turkey? A) Fred. B) The Cratchits. C) Belle. D) Jacob Marley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Cratchits. 20. Where did Charles Dickens meet Katherine Hogarth? A) Paris. B) Boston. C) Westminster Abbey. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) London. 21. What was Dickens's pen name for his early pieces? A) Boz. B) Fizz. C) Baz. D) Dust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boz. 22. Dickens attacked the ideas of the philosopher John Stuart Mill. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 23. When Charles was 12 years old, where was his family sent? A) Debtor's prison. B) Spain. C) Disney World. D) Vacation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Debtor's prison. 24. Which Dickens novel is unfinished? A) The Old Curiosity Shop. B) Martin Chuzzlewit. C) Our Mutual Friend. D) The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 25. Charles Dickens wrote about the realistic picture of the life of English people. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 26. What work was Charles Dickens a fan of? A) Romeo and Juliet. B) Hamlet. C) Don Quijote of La Mancha. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Don Quijote of La Mancha. 27. Dickens' novels were ..... A) Published as autobiographies. B) Published as comics. C) Published as instalments. D) Published as complete books. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Published as instalments. 28. Author's work that is partly autobiographical: A) No work spoke of his life. B) David Copperfield. C) Christmas story. D) Oliver Twist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) David Copperfield. 29. Charles had never gone to school. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 30. Which of the following is an opinion about Charles Dickens? A) He was among the most popular authors of his day. B) His books are still widely read today. C) His childhood influenced his later writings. D) He was the most important novelist of the 19th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He was the most important novelist of the 19th century. 31. What was the writer's full name? A) Charles John Darwin Dickens. B) Charles John Huffam Dickens. C) Charles Dickens. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles John Huffam Dickens. 32. What did Dickens have in common with the protagonists of many of his novels? A) He came from a poor background. B) He was a popular author. C) He traveled frequently. D) He was extremely wealthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He came from a poor background. 33. What was Charles Dickens' job at the blacking factory? A) Operating machinery. B) Labeling bottles. C) Managing inventory. D) Cleaning floors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Labeling bottles. 34. Which of these was a pen name occasionally used by Dickens? A) Boz. B) Dickon. C) Huffman. D) Moses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boz. 35. True or False? Charles Dickens became very famous and wealthy in his lifetime and worked hard for the welfare of the poor. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 36. Why did he leave school when he was 11? A) Because he didn't want study. B) The life was hard. C) Because his mother was ill. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The life was hard. 37. People value Charles Dickens' novels for their realism, humour, their love and sympathy for people. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 38. When his father went to prison? A) When he was 10. B) When he was 7. C) When he was 12. D) When he was 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When he was 11. 39. He was one of the ten children, and he killed two of them. A) Yes, it is true. B) No, he was one of the eight children. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No, he was one of the eight children. 40. What was the name of Charles Dickens wife? A) Clara. B) Caroline. C) Charlotte. D) Catherine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Catherine. 41. His family was poor. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. Oliver Twist is an unusual Dickens novel because of its happy ending. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 43. Based on the writer's own experiences A) Childhood. B) Biographical. C) Orphans. D) Merchants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biographical. 44. On whom was the charater of Mrs. Nickelby in Nicholas Nickleby based? A) Catherine Hogarth. B) Elizabeth Dickens. C) Mary Hogarth. D) Maria Beadnell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth Dickens. 45. He wrote 15 novels A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 46. Slavery and class difference were: A) The author's preferred topics. B) The least striking theme for his writings. C) The author's most popular publications. D) Some isolated themes in the author's texts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The author's preferred topics. 47. He ..... in 1836. A) Dead. B) Died. C) Did. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Died. 48. When and where did Dickens start work? A) Aged 12, at a boot blacking factory. B) Aged 16, as a theatre stagehand. C) Aged 18, as a trainee lawyer. D) Aged 21, as a magazine writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aged 12, at a boot blacking factory. 49. What was Charles Dickens' first published piece of fiction? A) The Pickwick Papers. B) A Tale of Two Cities. C) Oliver Twist. D) Great Expectations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Pickwick Papers. 50. "During" means ..... A) During. B) In the kingdom. C) In light of the fact. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) During. 51. The time of life when you are a child A) Merchants. B) Debts. C) Childhood. D) Pickpockets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Childhood. 52. What was Dickens' full name? A) Charles John Harmon Dickens. B) Charles Oliver Nicholas Dickens. C) Charles Joseph Hughes Dickens. D) Charles John Huffam Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles John Huffam Dickens. 53. What is a common theme in most of Dickens' novels? A) Growing up is not easy. B) Overcoming odds to live another day. C) Good vs evil. D) Physical suffering of impoverished children. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Physical suffering of impoverished children. 54. Who did Charles Dickens marry? A) Ellen. B) Mary. C) Catherine. D) Elizabeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Catherine. 55. A philanthropist is different ..... A) Shower gros. B) Judge. C) Repossession man. D) Benefactor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Benefactor. 56. Dickens was fascinated by A) Life in the countryside. B) Urban architecture. C) Urban life. D) Life in France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Urban life. 57. Most of Dicken's stories took place in A) The country. B) The city. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The city. 58. In which year was Charles Dickens born? A) 1812. B) 1912. C) 1822. D) 1802. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1812. 59. Charles Dickens felt close to ..... A) Rich and famous. B) Poor and oppressed. C) Doctors and nurses. D) Teachers and students. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poor and oppressed. 60. Many of Dickens' novels focused on: A) Nature and the countryside. B) Social achievements. C) Social criticism. D) Love and marriage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social criticism. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesCharles Dickens Quiz 1Charles Dickens Quiz 2Charles Dickens Quiz 3Charles Dickens Quiz 4Charles Dickens Quiz 6 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books