Charles Dickens Quiz Flashcards
(30 cards)
______ was the foremost writter in public celebrity of the 19th century
Charles dickens
Where was Dickens born
Portsmouth England
When was Dickens born
1812
Dickens was born during the beginning of the ________
Industrial revolution
When he was young, Dickens family moved to this area of England
Chatham, Rochester
John Dickens was careless with ___
Money
When Dickens was 12, his father was thrown into this type of prison : ___
Debtor
Dickens was forced to work in a ____ factory
Shoe polish
Dickens first career was a clerk in a _______ office
Lawyers
Dickens first job as a writer was as a political ________
Reporter
Dickens first love was named
Moriah
Dickens first book was intiled “sketches by _______”
Boz
Dickens married ____In 1836
Catherine hogarth
In 1836, Dickens published this novel
Pickwick papers
The Pickwick papers sold_____copies a month
40,000
Much of Dickens success can be attributed to the _______ format of his works
Serialized
Mary Hogarth death was fictionalized by Dickens in this novel ____ by the death of this character: ____
The old curiously shock, little Nell
True or false: dickens was not popular in the United States
False
Dickens wrote this book in 1843 for Christmas
A Christmas Carol
____Was Dickens most ambitious and autobiography novel
David Copperfield
Dickens fictionalized he’s first love, Mariah, as the character of flora in this novel ____
Little Dorrit
Dickens purchased this estate in Rochester that he had admired as a boy _____
Gad’s Hillplace
Chewer false dickens was tormented by the demons of his past and a sense of melancholy His entire life
True
Dickens separated from his wife in ____
1858
