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Charles Dickens – One Liner

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  1. To which literary Age did Dickens belong? Victorian Age.
  2. Where was Dickens born? Portsmouth. 
  3. Dickens was the first editor of which newspaper? The Daily News.
  4. Which was Charles Dickens’s first novel? Pickwick Papers.
  5. Which is the most autobiographical novel of Charles Dickens? David Copperfield.
  6. Episodic novels of Dickens: American Notes, The Uncommercial Traveller, Christmas Carol.
  7. Dickens deals with the theme of “the law’s delay” in: Little Dorrit.
  8. One of Dickens’s novels is generally called “the most worthless”. Which one? The Child’s History of England.
  9. Dickens portrays the degenerations and sufferings of the poor in England workhouses. In which novel does he do so? Oliver Twist.
  10. Which of Dickens’s novels deals with the life of a circus child named Sissy Jupe? Hard Times.
  11. Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities can be considered as a: historical novel.
  12. Which are the two cities: London and paris.
  13. Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities shows an influence of Carlyle’s: French Revolution
  14. Dickens left one novel unfinished. Which of these? Edwin Drood.
  15. Dickens said about one of the novel: “I like this the best.” Which novel was he referring to? David Copperfield.
  16. Charles Dickens’s characters are generally: Flat.
  17. In which of Dickens novels is a memorable character named Gradgrind figures? Hard Times.
  18. Who compared Dickens with Shakespeare in making “a character as real as flesh and blood”? T.S. Eliot
  19. In which of Dickens novels do we find a character named Miss Pross: A Tale of Two Cities.
  20. Anthony Trollpe satirises Dickens in the character of: Mr. Popular Sentiment.
  21. Which novels were written by Dickens? David Copperfield, Hard Times, Dombey and Sons, A Tale of Two Cities.
  22. “The great humorists of the world can be counted on the fingers of a hand, and Dickens is of that choice company” said: George Sampson.
  23. Who has written the best biography of Charles Dickens? Edgar Johnson (Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph.)
  24. Dickens was thoroughly familiar with Parliamentary procedure. Why? As a newspaper reporter he was allowed to enter the House of Commons.
  25. “His novels belong entirely to the humanitarian movement of the Victorian era.” said: W.H. Hudson.
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Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
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