1.LadCy Dedlock is a character in Dickens’s
(1) Bleak House
(2) Great Expectations
(3) David Copperfield
(4) Hard Times
ANSWER:1
2. Which of Dickens’ novels opens with the words “It was the best of times,
it was the
worst of times …. “.
(A) A Tale of Two Cities
(B) Oliver Twist
(C) Pickwick Papers
(D) Hard Times
ANSWER:A
3. Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence
(A) It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
(B) It was the brightest of times; it was the darkest of times.
(C) It was the richest of times; it was the poorest of times.
(D) It was the happiest of times; it was the saddest of times.
ANSWER:A
4. Charles Dickens’s visit to the United States produced _________.
(A) Hard Times
(B) Nicholas Nickleby
(C) Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Oliver Twist
ANSWER:C
5. . Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up”?
(1) Barkis
(2) Micawber
(3) Uriah Heep
(4) Miss Havisham
ANSWER:2
6. Which Dickens novel attacks the New Poor Law of 1834 in the opening chapters ?
(A) Great Expectations
(B) Hard Times
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) Dombey and Son
ANSWER:C
7. The Court of Chancery is a setting in Dickens’
(A) Little Dorrit
(B) Hard Times
(C) Dombey and Son
(D) Bleak House
ANSWER:D
8. Little Nell is a character in Dickens’s
(A) Hard Times
(B) Great Expectations
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop
ANSWER:D
9. Put the following novels by Charles Dickens in a sequential order with the help of the code :
1. Great Expectations
2. Hard Times
3. Bleak House
4. A Tale of Two Cities
Code :
(A) 3, 2, 4, 1
(B) 2, 4, 3, 1
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) 4, 2, 1, 3
ANSWER:A
10. Who among the following English artists illustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott?
(A) Richard Hogarth
(B) Joshua Reynolds
(C) George Cruishank
(D) John Tennial
ANSWER:C
11. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House is pointedly critical of England’s :
(1) Privy Council
(2) Court of Appeal
(3) Court of Chancery
(4) military courts
ANSWER:3
12. . Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling directness in his portrayal of
(A) Paul Dombey
(B) Thomas Gradgrind
(C) Philip Pirrip
(D) Harold Skimpole
ANSWER:B
13. Charles Dickens opined that “no man ever before had the art of making himself mentally so like a woman since the world began.” He was acknowledging the quality of the work of which writer?
(1) Walter Scott
(2) William Mackpeace Thackeray
(3) George Meredith
(4) George Eliot
ANSWER:4
14. Who among Charles Dickens’s characters is ‘humble’ and who ‘willing’?
(A) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp
(B) Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby
(C) Martin, Little Nell
(D) Uriah Heep, Barkis
ANSWER:D
15. While writing or printing, scholarly use prefers titles in italics. Which of the following is the correct way of writing/printing?
(A) Charles Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities
(B) Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities
(C) Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
(D) Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities
ANSWER:C
16. Peter Ackroyd’s first novel, The Great Fire of London, picks up the historical echoes and artfully deploys a Dickens novel as an intertext. Identify the source Dickens text.
(1) Great Expectations
(2) Little Dorrit
(3) Martin Chuzzlewit
(4) Old Curiosity Shop
ANSWER:2
17. . Which of the following is not true of the novels of Charles Dickens?
(1) They deal with the problems of the discontents of an urban civilization.
(2) The plots are strikingly tight-knit.
(3) They share a sense of fun and determining optimism.
(4) They incorporate elements of popular contemporary culture.
ANSWER:2
18. A close friend of Dickens objected to the original ending of Great Expectations in which Estella remarries and Pip remains single. Dickens accordingly revised to a more conventional ending which suggests that Pip and Estella will marry. Who was the friend?
(A) Willkie Collins
(B) Thomas Beard
(C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) Richard Bentley
ANSWER:A
19. Which 19th century novelist expressed a wish to “exterminate the race” of Indians following the 1857 Mutiny in India ?
(1) William Makepeace Thackeray
(2) Charles Dickens
(3) George Eliot
(4) Anthony Trollope
ANSWER:2
20. Which of the following set of characters in Charles Dickens’ novels is in the right chronological order?
[1]Bounderby – David Copperfield- Mrs. Mann- Nathaniel Winkle
[2]David Copperfield- Mr. Bounderby- Nathaniel Winkle- Mrs. Mann
[3]Nathaniel winkle- Mrs. Mann- David Copperfield- Mr. Bounderby
[4]Mann- David Copperfield- Nathaniel winkle- Mr. Bounderby
ANSWER:3
21. Who among the following Dickens characters appears as a ghost?
A. Daniel Quilp
B. Dora Spenlow
C. Esther Summerson
D. Jacob Marley
ANSWER:D
22. Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations without altering the original title?
A- Angela Carter
B- Kathy Acker
C- Peter Carey
D- Shirley Jackson
ANSWER:B
23.The two ‘mother-Figures’ in Dickens’s Great Expectations are Code:
I. Estella
II. Miss Havisham
III. Mrs Joe
IV. Georgiana
The right combination according to the code is:
(A) II and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
ANSWER:A