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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