Charles Dickens Quiz

Question 1

______ was the foremost writter in public celebrity of the 19th century

Answer 1

Charles dickens

Question 2

Where was Dickens born

Answer 2

Portsmouth England

Question 3

When was Dickens born

Answer 3

1812

Question 4

Dickens was born during the beginning of the ________

Answer 4

Industrial revolution

Question 5

When he was young, Dickens family moved to this area of England

Answer 5

Chatham, Rochester

Question 6

John Dickens was careless with ___

Answer 6

Money

Question 7

When Dickens was 12, his father was thrown into this type of prison : ___

Answer 7

Debtor

Question 8

Dickens was forced to work in a ____ factory

Answer 8

Shoe polish

Question 9

Dickens first career was a clerk in a _______ office

Answer 9

Lawyers

Question 10

Dickens first job as a writer was as a political ________

Answer 10

Reporter

Question 11

Dickens first love was named

Answer 11

Moriah

Question 12

Dickens first book was intiled “sketches by _______”

Answer 12

Boz

Question 13

Dickens married ____In 1836

Answer 13

Catherine hogarth

Question 14

In 1836, Dickens published this novel

Answer 14

Pickwick papers

Question 15

The Pickwick papers sold_____copies a month

Answer 15

40,000

Question 16

Much of Dickens success can be attributed to the _______ format of his works

Answer 16

Serialized

Question 17

Mary Hogarth death was fictionalized by Dickens in this novel ____ by the death of this character: ____

Answer 17

The old curiously shock, little Nell

Question 18

True or false: dickens was not popular in the United States

Answer 18

False

Question 19

Dickens wrote this book in 1843 for Christmas

Answer 19

A Christmas Carol

Question 20

____Was Dickens most ambitious and autobiography novel

Answer 20

David Copperfield

Question 21

Dickens fictionalized he’s first love, Mariah, as the character of flora in this novel ____

Answer 21

Little Dorrit

Question 22

Dickens purchased this estate in Rochester that he had admired as a boy _____

Answer 22

Gad’s Hillplace

Question 23

Chewer false dickens was tormented by the demons of his past and a sense of melancholy His entire life

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Dickens separated from his wife in ____

Answer 24

1858

Question 25

By the 1860s dickens had completed the following great novels ______ and _______.

Answer 25

A tale of two cities and great expectations

Question 26

In addition to writing dickens began public ____ of his works, for which she received more sums of money

Answer 26

Readings

Question 27

Dickens died while writing this novel

Answer 27

Edwin Drood

Question 28

Dickens died in this year

Answer 28

1870

Question 29

He was buried in this church

Answer 29

Westminster Abbey

Question 30

How many novels did Charles Dickens write

Answer 30

14