Famous Personality GK MCQ Questions on ‘Charles Dickens’. Here we have given total 20 Quiz, very important for students.
1.) 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
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
Question’s Answer: George Sampson
3.) 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
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
Question’s Answer: The Child’s History of England
5.) 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
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
Question’s Answer: Hard Times
7.) 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
8.) 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
9.) 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
10.) 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
11.) 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
12.) 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
13.) 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
14.) 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
15.) 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
16.) 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
17.) Charles Dickens’s characters are generally:
(A) Humanitarian
(B) Round
(C) Humorous
(D) Flat
Question’s Answer: Flat
18.) 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
19.) Where was Dickens born?
(A) Portsmouth
(B) London
(C) Derbeyfield
(D) Yorkshire
Question’s Answer: Portsmouth
20.) 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