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The Ultimate Charles Dickens Quiz



Quiz Questions


  1. In which city was Charles Dickens born?
  2. Which Dickens novel was inspired by his time working at Warren's Blacking Factory as a child?
  3. What is the pen name Charles Dickens used when he first began his writing career?
  4. What is the name of the escaped convict befriended by Pip in Great Expectations?
  5. Which unfinished novel by Charles Dickens was published posthumously?
  6. Which prison was his father sent to in 1824 for a debt to a baker?
  7. On the 12 March 1851, Charles Dickens was introduced to which young author who would become one of his greatest friends?
  8. Can you name the former business partner of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, in the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol?
  9. Which Charles Dickens novel begins with the line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?
  10. What was the name of the first novel Charles Dickens published?
  11. Which humorous Cockney bootblack is said to be the character that made Dickens famous?
  12. Which novel, the only one set entirely outside of London, was Charles Dicken's shortest and arguably the most political?
  13. Miss Havisham is a character in which 1861 novel?
  14. Which author stayed with Charles Dickens for 5 weeks as an unwelcome guest?
  15. True or false. Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine, had no children?
  16. Dickens's grave can be found where?
  17. By what pen nane is illustrator Hablot Knight Browne better known?
  18. Which novel, combining psychological insight with social analysis, was the last novel completed by Charles Dickens?
  19. Which term has come to describe situations reminiscent of the harsh conditions depicted in his novels?
  20. On 8 June 1870, Dickens had another stroke at his home and never regained consciousness. How old was he?
  21. Charles Dickens had wished to be buried in the churchyard of which cathedral?


Answers



  1. Portsmouth, England
  2. David Copperfield
  3. Boz
  4. Magwitch
  5. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  6. Marshalsea
  7. Wilkie Collins
  8. Jacob Marley
  9. A Tale of Two Cities
  10. The Pickwick Papers (also known as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club)
  11. Sam Weller
  12. Hard Times
  13. Great Expectations
  14. Danish author Hans Christian Andersen
  15. False. They had 10 children
  16. Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey
  17. Phiz (he illustrated books by Charles Darkins)
  18. Our Mutual Friend
  19. Dickensian
  20. 58
  21. Rochester Cathedral