1. Which novel is not created and written by Dickens?
(A) Hard Times
(B) Vanity Fair
(C) Little Dorrit
(D) Our Mutual Friend
2. “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
3. Dickens treats with the idea/theme of “the law’s delay” in:
(A) Little Dorrit
(B) Oliver Twist
(C) Hard Times
(D) Nicholas Nickleby
4. 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
5. Dickens portrays the degradations and sufferings of the poor in English workhouses in which novel?
(A) Little Dorrit
(B) Great Expectations
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) David Copperfield
6. 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
7. Which was the first novel of Charles Dickens?
(A) Christmas Carols
(B) Pickwick Papers
(C) Hard Times
(D) Oliver Twist
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. “His novels belong entirely to the humanitarian movement of the Victorian era.” Who holds this view?
(A) F.R. Leavis
(B) I.A. Richards
(C) W.H. Hudson
(D) George Sampson
13. 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
14. Dickens left one novel unfinished. Which of these?
(A) Dombey and Son
(B) Edwin Drood
(C) Our Mutual Friend
(D) Little Dorrit
15. 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
16. Charles Dickens’s characters are generally:
(A) Humanitarian
(B) Round
(C) Humorous
(D) Flat
17. 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
18. Where was Dickens born?
(A) Portsmouth
(B) London
(C) Derbeyfield
(D) Yorkshire
19. In which of Dickens’s novels does a memorable character named Gradgrind appear?
(A) Pickwick Papers
(B) A Tale of Two Cities
(C) Hard Times
(D) Oliver Twist
20. 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
21. 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 Son
22. Anthony Trollope satirizes 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
23. Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities can be considered as what kind of novel?
(A) Sociological Novel
(B) Historical Novel
(C) Regional Novel
(D) Picaresque Novel
24. 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)
25. Which is not a novel by Dickens?
(A) Barnaby Rudge
(B) Great Expectations
(C) Heart of Darkness
(D) None of the above
26. Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was published in which year?
(A) 1843
(B) 1844
(C) 1845
(D) 1846
27. Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens was published during:
(A) 1843–44
(B) 1843–45
(C) 1843–46
(D) None of the above
28. David Copperfield was published in which years?
(A) 1848–50
(B) 1849–50
(C) 1847–50
(D) None of the above
29. A Christmas Carol is a:
(A) Short Story
(B) Novel
(C) Poem
(D) None of the above
