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WorksheetsA Christmas Carol - Context
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which class did Dickens fall in to?
Upper class
Middle class
Lower class
Where did he have to work when he was 12?
Workhouse
Blacking Factory
Warehouse
Label factory
What did Dickens become a life long champion of?
The poor
The rich
Charity
Workhouses
What did Dickens want his middle class readers to do?
Donate more to charity
Improve conditions for the poor
Abolish workhouses
Open up homeless shelters
Other than Britain, where else did Dickens' make sure people heard his ideas?
Scotland
Australia
New Zealand
America
Before which century did the aristocracy recognize that their privilege meant they had to take care of those less fortunate than themselves?
17th
18th
19th
20th
Which class was caused by the Industrial Revolution?
Upper
Middle
Lower
Which character is symbolic of the middle-class?
Fran
Miners
Martha
Scrooge
What caused parishes to raise taxes to gather enough money to support increasing numbers of poor people?
Too many people and not enough jobs
Poor infrastructure
Greedy bosses
The Industrial Revolution
Name the law that was passed that meant only poor people who could not work would be helped.
poor law amendment
the poor law
the amendment of the poor law
poor amendment
What did Victorians think about poverty?
shameful / lazy / wicked behaviour
lazy / gambling / sinful
wicked / sinful / own fault
sinful / lazy / wicked
Where did these poor people have to go?
the workhouse
warehouse
prison
in to care
What was the treadmill?
a punishment
a job
exercise
social time
Dickens believed what was the key to ending poverty?
reading
education
story telling
listening
Name the two politicians Dickens felt many Christian middle-classes used to justify their bad behaviour towards the poor.
Johnson and Williamson
Bentham and Malthus
Malthus and Johnson
Bentham and Williamson
