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From Pickwick Papers to Edwin Drood, the novels and short stories of Charles Dickens have delighted generations of readers, ensuring his place as one of the immortals of fiction. Here is a chance to test how much you know about this extraordinary author and the world he created.

1) How does Mr Krook meet his end in Bleak House?

He drowns in the Thames

He is murdered by his servant

He explodes

He dies of fright

2) Where was Amy Dorrit born?

On a ship on its passage to France

In prison

In the workhouse

Unknown. She was found abandoned at the door of a church

3) In his Sketches Boz meditates in Monmouth Street. What is the principal item for sale there?

Vegetables

Sheet music

Old clothes

Books

4) Dickens visited America for the first time in 1842 and wrote it up in his American Notes for General Circulation. In which novel did he draw on these experiences?

Martin Chuzzlewit

Our Mutual Friend

A Tale of Two Cities

Nicholas Nickleby

5) Jerry Cruncher has two jobs in A Tale of Two Cities. One is working in a bank, what is the other?

He dredges the Thames for valuables

He is a body snatcher

He receives stolen goods

Highwayman

6) Dickens' father spent a period of time in prison. On what charge?

Debt

Fraud

Theft

Smuggling

7) With which other successful novelist did Dickens collaborate for the play The Frozen Deep in which he performed in 1857?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Anthony Trollope

Wilkie Collins

Edward Bulwer Lytton

8) Solomon Gills is the proprietor of what kind of store?

A marine store

A curiosity shop

A shop selling nautical instruments

A taxidermist

9) When Oliver Twist first leaves the workhouse he does what job?

Chimney Sweep

Undertaker's assistant

Errand boy at a bookstore

Oyster seller

10) What is the name of Tony Weller's pub in Pickwick Papers?

The Blue Dragon

The Stump and Vulture

The Marquis of Granby

The Pipe and Poker

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