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A Christmas Carol - Context

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which class did Dickens fall in to?

a)

Upper class

b)

Middle class

c)

Lower class

2.

Where did he have to work when he was 12?

a)

Workhouse

b)

Blacking Factory

c)

Warehouse

d)

Label factory

3.

What did Dickens become a life long champion of?

a)

The poor

b)

The rich

c)

Charity

d)

Workhouses

4.

What did Dickens want his middle class readers to do?

a)

Donate more to charity

b)

Improve conditions for the poor

c)

Abolish workhouses

d)

Open up homeless shelters

5.

Other than Britain, where else did Dickens' make sure people heard his ideas?

a)

Scotland

b)

Australia

c)

New Zealand

d)

America

6.

Before which century did the aristocracy recognize that their privilege meant they had to take care of those less fortunate than themselves?

a)

17th

b)

18th

c)

19th

d)

20th

7.

Which class was caused by the Industrial Revolution?

a)

Upper

b)

Middle

c)

Lower

8.

Which character is symbolic of the middle-class?

a)

Fran

b)

Miners

c)

Martha

d)

Scrooge

9.

What caused parishes to raise taxes to gather enough money to support increasing numbers of poor people?

a)

Too many people and not enough jobs

b)

Poor infrastructure

c)

Greedy bosses

d)

The Industrial Revolution

10.

Name the law that was passed that meant only poor people who could not work would be helped.

a)

poor law amendment

b)

the poor law

c)

the amendment of the poor law

d)

poor amendment

11.

What did Victorians think about poverty?

a)

shameful / lazy / wicked behaviour

b)

lazy / gambling / sinful

c)

wicked / sinful / own fault

d)

sinful / lazy / wicked

12.

Where did these poor people have to go?

a)

the workhouse

b)

warehouse

c)

prison

d)

in to care

13.

What was the treadmill?

a)

a punishment

b)

a job

c)

exercise

d)

social time

14.

Dickens believed what was the key to ending poverty?

a)

reading

b)

education

c)

story telling

d)

listening

15.

Name the two politicians Dickens felt many Christian middle-classes used to justify their bad behaviour towards the poor.

a)

Johnson and Williamson

b)

Bentham and Malthus

c)

Malthus and Johnson

d)

Bentham and Williamson