Charles Dicken MCQs [English Literature & Famous Authors]

Collection of important MCQs on Charles Dicken

Which novels is not created and written by  Dickens?

(A) Hard Times

(B) Vanity Fair

(C) Little Dorrit

(D) Our Mutual Friend

Question’s Answer: Vanity Fair


“The great humorists of the world can be counted on the fingers of a hand, and

Dickens is of that choice company.” Who says this?

(A) George Sampson

(B) Saintsbury

(C) W.H. Hudson

(D) T.S. Eliot

Question’s Answer: George Sampson


Dickens treats with the idea/theme  of “the laws’s delay” in:

(A) Little Dorrit

(B) Oliver Twist

(C) Hard Times

(D) Nicholas Nickleby

Question’s Answer: Little Dorrit


One of the following novels of Dickens is generally called ‘the most worthless’. Which?

(A) American Notes

(B) Hard Times

(C) Little Dorrit

(D) The Child’s History of England

Question’s Answer: The Child’s History of England


Dickens portrays the degradations and sufferings of the poor in English workhouses. In

Which novels does he do so?

(A) Little Dorrit

(B) Great Expectations

(C) Oliver Twist

(D) David Coppefield

Question’s Answer: Oliver Twist


Which of Dickens’s novels deals with the life of a circus child named Sissy Jupe?

(A) Martin Chuzzlewit

(B) Hard Times

(C) Little Dorrit

(D) Bleak House

Question’s Answer: Hard Times


Dickens was the first editor of one of the following newspapers. Of which?

(A) The Quarterly Review

(B) The London Magazine

(C) The Daily News

(D) Blackwood’s Magazine

Question’s Answer: The Daily News


Which was the first novel of Charles Dickens ?

(A) Christmas Carols

(B) Pickwick Papers

(C) Hard Times

(D) Oliver Twist

Question’s Answer: Pickwick Papers


Which is the most autobiographical novel of

Charles Dickens?

(A) David Copperfield

(B) Hard Times

(C) A Tale of Two Cities

(D) Dombey and Son

Question’s Answer: David Copperfield


One of the following novels is only an episodic novel. Which one?

(A) The Uncommercial Traveller

(B) American Notes

(C) Pickwick Papers

(D) Christmas Carols

Question’s Answer: Pickwick Papers


Which are the two cities dealt with in Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities?

(A) Paris and Berlin

(B) Paris and Rome

(C) London and Athens

(D) London and Paris

Question’s Answer: London and Paris


Dickens was thoroughly familiar with Parliamentary procedure. Why?

(A) His father was a member of the Parliament

(B) As a newspaper reporter he was allowed to enter the House of Commons

(C) He was the Editor of a newspaper called Daily News

(D) None of these

Question’s Answer: As a newspaper reporter he was allowed to enter the House of Commons


“His novels belong entirely to the humanitarian movement of the Victorian era.” Who

holds this view?

(A) F.R. Leavis

(B) LA. Richards

(C) W.H. Hudson

(D) George Sampson

Question’s Answer: W.H. Hudson


Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities shows an influence of Carlyle’s:

(A) Italian Revolution

(B) The Life of Schiller

(C) Sartor Resartus

(D) French Revolution

Question’s Answer: French Revolution


Dickens left one novel unfinished. Which of these?

(A) Dombey and Son

(B) Edwin Drood

(C) Our Mutual Friend

(D) Little Dorrit

Question’s Answer: Edwin Drood


Dickens said about one of the novels: “I like this the best.” Which novel was he referring to ?

(A) David Copperfield

(B) Great Expectations

(C) A Tale of Two Cities

(D) Oliver Twist

Question’s Answer: David Copperfield


Charles Dickens’s characters are generally:

(A) Humanitarian

(B) Round

(C) Humorous

(D) Flat

Question’s Answer: Flat


To which literary Age did Dickens belong?

(A) To the Augustan Age

(B) To the Victorian Age

(C) To the Romantic Age

(D) To the Pre-Romantic Age

Question’s Answer: To the Victorian Age


Where was Dickens born?

(A) Portsmouth

(B) London

(C) Derbeyfield

(D) Yorkshire

Question’s Answer: Portsmouth


In which of Dickens’s novels a memorable character named Gradgrind figures?

(A) Pickwick Papers

(B) A Tale of Two Cities

(C) Hard Times

(D) Oliver Twist

Question’s Answer: Hard Times


Who compared Dickens with Shakespeare in making “a character as real as flesh and blood”?

(A) Matthew Arnold

(B) F.R. Leavis

(C) I.A. Richards

(D) T.S. Eliot

Question’s Answer: T.S. Eliot


In which of Dickens’s novels do we find a character named Miss Pross?

(A) David Copperfield

(B) Hard Times

(C) A Tale of Two Cities

(D) Dombey and

Question’s Answer: A Tale of Two Cities


Anthony Trollope satirises Dickens in the character of which of the following?

(A) Dr. Charles Reformer

(B) Dr. Pessimist Anticant

(C) Mr. Chatting Hardwood

(D) Mr. Popular Sentiment

Question’s Answer: Mr. Popular Sentiment


Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities can be considered as a what kind of novel?

(A) Sociological Novel

(B) Historical Novel

(C) Regional Novel

(D) Picaresque Novel

Question’s Answer: Historical Novel


Who is the writer of  the best biography of Charles Dickens?

(A) Arthur A. Adrian (Dickens Circle)

(B) John Forster (The Life of Dickens)

(C) Edgar Johnson (Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph)

(D) J.B. Priestley (Charles Dickens)

Question’s Answer: Edgar Johnson (Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph)

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