Charles Dickens Quiz – The Novels of Charles Dickens

Are you ready for a Charles Dickens quiz? Okay then, how familiar are you with the work of Charles Dickens? Take this 10-question quiz to find out.

In this multiple choice game you’re given the first line to 10 of Dickens’s works.  Select the title that matches the first line from the drop down menu. Once you’re done, press Grade the Quiz to see your score!  The incorrect answers will be checked.

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1. Marley was dead, to begin with.
— Choose an answer —a) David Copperfieldb) Hard Timesc) A Christmas Carol

2. My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
— Choose an answer —a) Our Mutual Friendb) Great Expectationsc) A Tale of Two Cities

3. “NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts.”   
— Choose an answer —a) Dombey and Sonb) Hard Timesc) Our Mutual Friend

4. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .   
— Choose an answer —a) Martin Chuzzlewitb) A Tale of Two Citiesc) Hard Times

5. In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in.   
— Choose an answer —a) Our Mutual Friendb) The Mystery of Edwin Droodc) Little Dorrit

6. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.   
— Choose an answer —a) Nicholas Nicklebyb) Great Expectationsc) David Copperfield

7.  Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse . . .   
— Choose an answer —a) Great Expectationsb) Oliver Twistc) Bleak House

8. Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day.   
— Choose an answer —a) Little Dorritb) A Tale of Two Citiesc) Bleak House

9. London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth . . .   
— Choose an answer —a) Bleak Houseb) Our Mutual Friendc) The Mystery of Edwin Drood

10. Night is generally my time for walking.   
— Choose an answer —a) Dombey and Sonb) The Old Curiosity Shopc) Martin Chuzzlewit

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