Charles Dickens

When did Charles Dickens live?

• 1600s
• 1700s
• 1800s
• 1900s

What happened to cause Charles to be taking care of himself at age 12?

• His parents died.

• His father went into debt-owed money

• He ran away from home.

• All boys were on their own at age 12.

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What happened to Charles's family due to the debt?

• Nothing.
• His father went to prison.
• The entire family went to prison.
• The entire family except for Charles went to prison.

What inspired Dickens to write about the poor?

• His experience of being poor
• An old friend
• His parents
• A story he read when he was little

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When Charles was young, his father was sent where?

• America
• an insane asylum
• a debtor's prison
• to work in a boot polish factory

What jobs did Dickens have to help support his family before he was a writer?

• dockworker, casket maker

• lawyer

• factory worker, reporter

• a tax collector

How many children did Dickens have?

• 3
• 8
• 0
• 10

Dickens first serialised some of his works in order to make them more accessible to the poor. True or false?

• true
• false

What was Dickens's first published novel under the pen name `Boz' ?

• Great Expectations
• The Pickwick Papers
• David Copperfield
• A Christmas Carol

Dickens believed in the need for social change.  True or False?

• True
• False

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