Charles Dickens MCQ Questions and Answers for Practice

1. When was Charles Dickens born?

1. 1810
2. 1812
3. 1815
4. 1820

2. What is the name of the artful pickpocket in Oliver Twist?

1. Fagin
2. Dodger
3. Bill Sikes
4. Nancy

3. Which Dickens novel is set during the French Revolution?

1. Bleak House
2. A Tale of Two Cities
3. Oliver Twist
4. Hard Times

4. How many children did Charles Dickens have?

1. 8
2. 9
3. 10
4. 11

5. What pen name did Dickens use in his early career?

1. Boz
2. Pip
3. Oliver
4. Copperfield

6. Which novel is partly based on Dickens’s own childhood?

1. David Copperfield
2. Great Expectations
3. Hard Times
4. Oliver Twist

7. What is the name of the miserly character in A Christmas Carol?

1. Bob Cratchit
2. Ebenezer Scrooge
3. Jacob Marley
4. Tiny Tim

8. In which year did Charles Dickens die?

1. 1868
2. 1870
3. 1872
4. 1874

9. Which unfinished novel was Dickens writing when he died?

1. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2. Our Mutual Friend
3. Little Dorrit
4. Barnaby Rudge

10. Which of Dickens’s novels is set in the workhouse system?

1. Oliver Twist
2. Great Expectations
3. Nicholas Nickleby
4. Hard Times

11. What is the name of the schoolmaster in Hard Times?

1. Mr. Gradgrind
2. Mr. Squeers
3. Mr. Bumble
4. Mr. Pickwick

12. Which novel was Charles Dickens’s first published work?

1. Oliver Twist
2. Great Expectations
3. The Pickwick Papers
4. A Tale of Two Cities

13. Dickens’s childhood home was located near which famous landmark?

1. Big Ben
2. The Royal Dockyards
3. Tower of London
4. Buckingham Palace

14. What is the name of the villainous character in Bleak House?

1. Mr. Tulkinghorn
2. Uriah Heep
3. Bill Sikes
4. Daniel Quilp

15. Which Dickens novel features the character Uriah Heep?

1. Bleak House
2. David Copperfield
3. Oliver Twist
4. Great Expectations