Quiz test:

1. Who was Charles Dickens?

a. a painter

b. a writer

c. a poet

2. Where was he from?

a. Scotland

b. England

c. Wales

3. Where did Charles Dickens work as a

young boy?

a. at the grocery store

b. in a mill

c. in a shoe-dye factory

clerk in the navy pay offi

4. Why did Charles Dickens work as a child?

a. he wanted some pocket money

b. his father was in debts

c. he preferred working to learning

at school

5. Who was Charles Dickens’s father?

a. a clerk in an office

b. a lawyer

c. a factory worker

6. What was Dickens’s first real job?

a. a clerk in a law firm

b. a shop assistant

c. a newspaper reporter

What do you know

about Charles

Dickens?

7. Where did Charles Dickens travel?

a. Europe and America

b. Africa and Asia

c. Scotland and Wales

8. Which novel Charles Dickens didn’t write?

a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer b. David Copperfield c. The Pickwick Papers

9. What kind of books did he write?

a. novels, shorts stories, theatrical

plays and non-fiction books

b. non-fiction books and humorous

sketches

c. short stories and satires

10. What was Dickens’s popular nickname?

a. ‘Pickwick’

b. ‘Boz’

c. ‘Cooper’

11. How many children did Dickens have?

a. 3

b. 7

c. 10

12. When did he die?

a. in 1870

b. in 1850

c. in 1900