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

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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Charles Dickens’s characters are generally:

(A) Humanitarian

(B) Round

(C) Humorous

(D) Flat

Question’s Answer: Flat

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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

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Where was Dickens born?

(A) Portsmouth

(B) London

(C) Derbeyfield

(D) Yorkshire

Question’s Answer: Portsmouth

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

Which is not a novel by Dickens?
(a) Barnaby Rudge
(b) Great Expectations
(c) Heart of Darkness
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Heart of Darkness

Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” was published in which year?
(a) 1843
(b) 1844
(c) 1845
(d) 1846
Question’s Answer: 1843

“Martin Chuzzlewit” by Dickens was published during:
(a) 1843-44
(b) 1843-45
(c) 1843-46
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1843-44

“David Copperfield” was published in which year?
(a) 1848-50
(b) 1849-50
(c) 1847-50
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1849-50

“A Christmas Carol” is a:
(a) Short Story
(b) Novel
(c) Poem
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Novel

6. “Nicholas Nickleby” was proudly written by:
(a) James Joyce
(b) Walter Allen
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Charles Dickens

Which is not a novel by Dickens?’
(a) A Tale of Two Cities
(b) Hard Times
(c) To the lighthouse
(d). None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: To the lighthouse

“Christmas Books” by Dickens appeared in the form of:
(a) Book
(b) Series
(c) Short Stories
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Series

Dickens’ experiences during his stay in America are recorded:
(a) American Notes
(b) Old Curiosity Shop
(c) David Copperfield
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: American Notes

American Notes was published in which year?
(a) 1840
(b) 1841
(c) 1842
(d) 1843
Question’s Answer: 1842

The sales of “The old Curiosity Shop” Reached:
(a) £50,000
(b) £60,000
(c) £100,000
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: £100,000

“Little Dorrit” by Charles Dickens was published during:
(a) 1855-57
(b) 1855-58
(c) 1855-59
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1855-57

“Bleak House” was proudly written by:
(a) Jane Austen
(b) George Eliot
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Charles Dickens

Which is not a novel by Dickens?
(a) David Copperfield
(b) Mrs. Dalloway
(c) The Million the Floss
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Question’s Answer: Both (b) and (c)

“Hard Times” is a:
(a) Novel
(b) Essay
(c) Poem
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Novel

Dickens started reading for public from own work in:
(a) 1855
(b) 1856
(c) 1858
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1858

“Our Mutual Friend” was proudly written by:
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) G.B. Shaw
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Charles Dickens

Which is not a novel by Dickens?
(a) Pride and Prejudice
(b) Pickwick Papers
(c) Domby and Son
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Pride and Prejudice

An immensely profitable but physically shattering series of readings in America in:
(a) 1867-8 speeded Dickens decline
(b) 1867-9 speeded Dickens decline
(c) 1866-9 speeded Dickens decline
Question’s Answer: 1867-8 speeded Dickens decline

Charles Dickens collapsed during a “Farewell” series in:
(a) England
(b) America
(c) Rome
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: England

Dickens set off with his wife for the United States after finishing:
(a) Barnaby Rudge
(b) Hard Times
(c) Nicholas Nickleby
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Barnaby Rudge

Who is the author of the “Hard Times”?
(a) Joseph Andrews
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Charles Dickens

Which is not a novel by Dickens?
(a) Tess
(b) Pickwick Papers
(c) Hard Times
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Tess

Dickens went to Italy in:
(a) 1844-45
(b) 1846
(c) 1847
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1844-45

Dickens went to Switzerland and Paris in:
(a) 1845
(b) 1846
(c) 1847
(d) 1848
Question’s Answer: 1846

Charles Dickens began his last novel “Edwin Drood” in:
(a) 1868
(b) 1869
(c) 1870
(d) 1871
Question’s Answer: 1870

Who gave the following remark about Dickens? “The mere record of his conviviality is exhausting”.
(a) John Ruskin
(b) Thackeray
(c) Lionel Trilling
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Lionel Trilling

“Edgar Johnson’s Charles Dickens:His Tragedy and Triumph” was published in which year?
(a) 1950
(b) 1953
(c) 1954
(d) 1955
Question’s Answer: 1953

“Martin Chuzzlewit” was proudly written by:
(a) Virginia Woolf
(b) James Joyce
(c) Charles Dicken
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: James Joyce

Which is not a novel by Dickens?
(a) Twilight in Delhi
(b) Hard Times
(c) A Tale of Two Cities
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A Tale of Two Cities

“John Butt’s and Kathleen Tillotson’s Dickens at work was published” in:
(a) 1955
(b) 1957
(c) 1958
(d) 1959
Question’s Answer: 1957

A Tale of Two Cities is a:
(a) Novel
(b) Poem
(c) Drama
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Novel

“Barnaby Rudge” is written by:
(a) George Eliot
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Thackeray
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Charles Dickens

Which is not a work by Charles Dickens?
(a) Pickwick Papers
(b) Tess of the D’urberville
(c) A Christmas Carol
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Tess of the D’urberville

John Forster’s “The Life of Charles Dickens” was published in which year?
(a) 1872-74
(b) 1872-75
(c) 1872-76
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1872-74

Dickens projected a paper “The Daily News” from:
(a) Paris
(b) Switzerland
(c) London
(d) England
Question’s Answer: England

“Hard Times” was published in which year?
(a) 1850
(b) 1854
(c) 1855
(d) 1856
Question’s Answer: 1854

Charles Dickens was separated from his wife in:
(a) 1855
(b) 1858
(c) 1859
(d) 1860
Question’s Answer: 1858

“A Tale of Two Cities” was published in which year?
(a) 1857
(b) 1858
(c) 1859
(d) 1860
Question’s Answer: 1859

Dickens’s health was failing by the:
(a) Early 1860s
(b) Mid 1860s
(c) Late 1860s
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Mid 1860s

Dickens’s “Bleak House” was published in which year?
(a) 1852
(b) 1853
(c) 1854
(d) 1855
Question’s Answer: 1853

Dickens pass away in:
(a) 1870
(b) 1871
(c) 1872
(d) 1873
Question’s Answer: 1870

“Great Expectation” was proudly written by:
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) George Eliot
(c) Paul Mark Scott
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was a:
(a) Poet
(b) Essayist
(c) Novelist
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Novelist

“Our Mutual Friend” was proudly written by:
(a) Thackeray
(b) George Eliot
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Charles Dickens

“The Mystry of Edwin Drood” was Dickens:
(a) First Novel
(b) Third Novel
(c) Last Novel
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Last Novel

“The Mystery of Edwin Drood” by Dickens was:
(a) Not Completed
(b) Completed
(c) Not published
(d) Rejected
Question’s Answer: Not Completed

The newspaper “The Daily News” projected by Dickens first appeared in:
(a) 1845
(b) 1846
(c) 1847
(d) 1848
Question’s Answer: 1846

After how many days, Dickens resigned as an editor from the “The Daily News”?
(a) Fifteen
(b) Seventeen
(c) Twenty
(d) Thirty
Question’s Answer: Seventeen

Dickens increased his already intense interest in public affairs in:
(a) 1850s
(b) 1860s
(c) 1870s
(d) 1871s
Question’s Answer: 1850s

Dickens founded a weekly magazine named:
(a) Household Words
(b) Mag
(c) Weekly Words
(d) Daily Times
Question’s Answer: Household Words

A weekly magazine “Household Words” founded by Dickens was succeeded in:
(a) 1856
(b) 1857
(c) 1859
(d) 1860
Question’s Answer: 1859

How many copies were sold by Household Words during 1859?
(a) 200,000
(b) 300,000
(c) 400,000
(d) 500,000
Question’s Answer: 300,000

How children Dickens had from his wife?
(a) Five
(b) Eight
(c) Ten
(d) Eleven
Question’s Answer: Ten

“Hard Times” by Charles Dickens appeared in 1854 in:
(a) Weekly Instalments
(b) Monthly Instalments
(c) The Form of Book
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Weekly Instalments

Who described “Hard Times” by Dickens as a work of genius?
(a) G.B. Shaw
(b) John Ruskin
(c) F.R. Leavis
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: F.R. Leavis

Who expressed the view about “Hard Times” by Dickens it should’ especially be stupass away with close and earnest care by persons interested in social questions?
(a) John Ruskin
(b) Thackeray
(c) Carlyle
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: John Ruskin

“Hard Times” generally means a period of:
(a) Progress
(b) Slump or depression
(c) Boom
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Slump or depression

“Nicholas Nickleby” by Dickens was published during:
(a) 1838-39
(b) 1838-42
(c) 1839-40
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1838-39

Dombey and Son was proudly written by:
(a) Virginia Woolf
(b) Joseph Conrad
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in:
(a) 1812
(b) 1813
(c) 1814
(d) 1815
Question’s Answer: 1812

Who was the Charles Dickens?
(a) Second son of John Dickens
(b) Third son of John Dickens
(c) Fourth son of John Dickens
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Second son of John Dickens

Dickens father was a:
(a) Author
(b) Clerk
(c) Doctor
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Clerk

Dickens was born at:
(a) Warwickshire
(b) Portsmouth
(c) Glasgow
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Portsmouth

Dickens spent his early childhood in:
(a) Germany
(b) Portsmouth London and Chatham
(c) Portsmouth
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Portsmouth

Charles Dickens’s family moved to London in:
(a) 1822
(b) 1823
(c) 1824
(d) 1825
Question’s Answer: 1823

Dickens began work in a factory at Hungerford Stairs two days before his:
(a) Twelfth Birthday
(b) Thirteenth Birthday
(c) Fifteenth Birthday
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Twelfth Birthday

Dickens’ father was arrested for:
(a) Committing Murder
(b) Debt
(c) Fraud
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Debt

John Dickens remained in prison for.
(a) Two months
(b) Three months
(c) Four months
(d) Five months
Question’s Answer: Four months

Charles Dickens began to work in the office of a firm of Gray’s Inn attorneys at the age of:
(a) Fifteen
(b) Sixteen
(c) Twenty
(d) Thirteen
Question’s Answer: Fifteen

Dickens began to work as a freelance reporter in the court of Doctor’s commons after:
(a) Fifteen Months
(b) Eighteen Months
(c) Two Years
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Eighteen Months

Dickens fell in love with Maria Beadnell in:
(a) 1828
(b) 1829 or 1830
(c) 1831
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1829 or 1830

Dickens’s first sketches by Boz appeared in magazines soon after he was:
(a) Twenty
(b) Twenty-one
(c) Twenty-two
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Twenty-one

Dickens joined the reporting staff of the “Morning Chronicle” in:
(a) 1834
(b) 1835
(c) 1836
(d) 1837
Question’s Answer: 1834

A volume of Dickens’s sketches appeared on his:
(a) Twenty-third birthday
(b) Twenty-four birthday
(c) Twenty-fifth birthday
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Twenty-four birthday

“Pickwick Papers” was proudly written by:
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) George Eliot
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Charles Dickens

Pickwick Papers was published in which year?
(a) 1835-37
(b) 1836-37
(c) 1836-38
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1836-37

Dickens began writing his novel “Oliver Twist” in:
(a) 1835
(b) 1836
(c) 1837
(d) 1838
Question’s Answer: 1837

How many days after the first number of “Pickwick Papers” appeared,Dickens married?
(a) Two days
(b) Three days
(c) Four days
(d) Five days
Question’s Answer: Two days

Sales of “The Old Curiosity Shop” by Dickens reached:
(a) £50,000
(b) £60,000
(c) £100,000
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: £100,000

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