Charles Dickens
Dickens was a leading Victorian writer. This topic is part of Literature within Literature. This page currently draws on 11 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Charles Dickens trivia questions
Charles Dickens was a novelist from which country?
Answer: England
Bonus fact: Dickens was a leading Victorian writer.
Which Dickens character famously asks, 'Please, sir, I want some more'?
Answer: Oliver Twist
Bonus fact: Oliver makes the request in the workhouse.
Which Dickens novel features Pip and Miss Havisham?
Answer: Great Expectations
Bonus fact: Great Expectations follows Pip's growth and ambitions.
Charles Dickens was a famous what?
Answer: Novelist
Bonus fact: Dickens was one of the best-known writers of Victorian England.
In Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit, Amy Dorrit grows up in which London debtors' prison?
Answer: Marshalsea Prison
Bonus fact: Little Dorrit was published in serial form between 1855 and 1857.
What nickname is used by the protagonist of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations?
Answer: Pip
Bonus fact: Pip is an orphan whose life changes after he receives support from a mysterious benefactor.
Which novel features the character Oliver Twist?
Answer: Oliver Twist
Bonus fact: Charles Dickens published Oliver Twist in serial form.
Who wrote The Pickwick Papers?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Bonus fact: The novel was serialized from March 1836 to November 1837.
Who wrote the novel Oliver Twist?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Bonus fact: Oliver Twist was originally published serially in the late 1830s.
Who wrote A Christmas Carol?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Bonus fact: Ebenezer Scrooge is the central character of A Christmas Carol.
Who wrote the supernatural short story "The Signal-Man"?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Bonus fact: Dickens published the story in 1866.