The Life and Works of Charles Dickens Trivia Questions
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This novel begins with the famous line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Difficulty: Easy- A Tale of Two Cities
- Great Expectations
- Oliver Twist
- David Copperfield
This ghost appears to Scrooge first, wrapped in chains, warning him to change his ways.
Difficulty: Medium- Ghost of Christmas Past
- Ghost of Christmas Present
- Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
- Jacob Marley
This technique of interconnecting plots from different social classes, showing how disease spreads from slums to aristocracy in Bleak House.
Difficulty: Hard- Social realism
- Condition-of-England narrative
- Naturalism
- Regional fiction
This orphan boy famously asks "Please, sir, I want some more" in a Dickens workhouse scene.
Difficulty: Easy- Pip
- David Copperfield
- Oliver Twist
- Nicholas Nickleby
This brutal villain in Oliver Twist murders Nancy and is eventually killed while trying to escape an angry mob.
Difficulty: Medium- Fagin
- Bill Sikes
- Monks
- Noah Claypole
This financial speculator in Little Dorrit, whose collapse echoes real Victorian frauds, is worshipped by society until his suicide.
Difficulty: Hard- Mr. Merdle
- Montague Tigg
- Ralph Nickleby
- Mr. Dombey
This miserly character is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve and transforms into a generous man.
Difficulty: Easy- Jacob Marley
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- Bob Cratchit
- Fagin
This Dickens novel satirizes the interminable Chancery Court case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
Difficulty: Medium- Little Dorrit
- Bleak House
- Our Mutual Friend
- Martin Chuzzlewit
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