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Grade 10 · World literature

World literature quiz for grade 10: Charles Dickens

This quiz helps revise “Charles Dickens” in World literature for grade 10. It has 25 questions in five categories: Life of Dickens, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Career & Legacy. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 15–16
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Charles Dickens

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Life of Dickens

  1. 100Picture for the question

    In which English port city was Charles Dickens born in 1812?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    At age twelve, where did Dickens paste labels onto jars of shoe polish?

  3. 300

    Which London debtors' prison…

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  4. 400

    What job did Dickens…

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  5. 500

    Under what pen name…

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Oliver Twist

  1. 100Picture for the question

    In what institution, shown in the illustration, does Oliver ask for more of his meagre gruel?

  2. 200

    Who leads the London gang that trains boys to pick pockets?

  3. 300

    Which woman secretly helps…

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  4. 400

    Who murders Nancy after…

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  5. 500

    Which kindly gentleman takes…

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A Christmas Carol

  1. 100

    Which miserly businessman begins the story hating Christmas and refusing charity?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Whose ghost first visits Scrooge and warns him about the consequences of selfishness?

  3. 300

    What is the name…

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  4. 400

    What is the name…

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  5. 500

    What is the name…

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Great Expectations

  1. 100

    What short name does the narrator Philip Pirrip give himself?

  2. 200

    What is the name of the blacksmith who is Pip's brother-in-law and most loyal friend?

  3. 300

    Which wealthy recluse lives…

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  4. 400

    What is the name…

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  5. 500

    Which convict is eventually…

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Career & Legacy

  1. 100

    Which 1836–1837 serial novel became Dickens's first major success?

  2. 200

    What paid stage performances of his own works did Dickens begin giving in 1858?

  3. 300

    Which weekly journal did…

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  4. 400

    In which London abbey…

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  5. 500

    Which 1864–1865 novel was…

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