Charles Dickens Quiz

1. Which supernatural visitor shows Scrooge ominous scenes of a possible future?

2. A class is discussing Dickens’s criticism of an education system built around utility, calculation, and memorized facts. Which novel should be central to the discussion?

3. Which character in David Copperfield repeatedly presents himself as “umble” while scheming against others?

4. In which novel does the reclusive Miss Havisham live among the decaying remains of her abandoned wedding celebration?

5. Which character makes the famous request, “Please, sir, I want some more”?

6. Which pen name did Dickens use for his early journalistic sketches?

7. Which character-and-novel pairing is correct?

8. Which Dickens novel is set partly in revolutionary France and follows characters including Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton?

9. A reader wants a Dickens novel narrated in the first person by its title character as he looks back on his life. Which is the best choice?

10. Which Dickens novel opens with the contrast “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”?

11. A government department is mocked for obstructing action through endless paperwork and procedure. What is its satirical name in Little Dorrit?

12. Dickens died before completing which novel, leaving its central mystery unresolved in the surviving text?

13. A legal dispute called Jarndyce and Jarndyce consumes an inheritance through years of Chancery proceedings. Which novel is being described?

14. A workhouse orphan shocks the officials by asking for another serving of food. In which novel does this scene occur?

15. Who is Ebenezer Scrooge’s underpaid clerk in A Christmas Carol?

16. A teacher insists that children should learn only facts and suppress imagination. Which Dickens character most clearly fits this description?