A Dickens of a Celebration atKinson f. KathY n honor of the bicentennial of Charles dickens’ birth, we hereby Take the challenge! challenge your literary mettle with a quiz about the great Victorian Iwriter. Will this be your best of times, or worst of times? Good luck!

This novel was Dickens and his wife, This famous writer the first of Dickens’ Catherine, had this was a good friend 1 romances. 5 many children; 8 of Dickens and some were named after his dedicated a book to him. (a) David Copperfield favorite authors. (b) Martin Chuzzlewit (a) Mark twain (c) Nicholas Nickleby (a) ten (b) emily Bronte (b) five (c) hans christian andersen (c) nine Many of Dickens’ books were cliffhangers, Where was 2 published in monthly The conditions of the Dickens buried? installments. In 1841, readers in working class are a Britain and the U.S. anxiously 9 common theme in awaited news of the fate of the 6 (a) Portsmouth, england Dickens’ books. Why? pretty protagonist in this novel. (where he was born) (a) he had to work in a (b) Poet’s corner, westminster (a) Little Dorrit warehouse as a boy to abbey, London (b) A Tale of Two Cities help get his family out of (c) isles of scilly (c) The Old Curiosity Shop debtor’s prison. (b) his father worked in a livery and was This amusement This was an early mistreated there. park in Chatham, pseudonym used (c) his mother worked as England, is 3 by Dickens. a maid as a teenager and named10 after Dickens. (a) o. henry told him stories about the hard life. (a) Great expectations (b) oliver twist (b) Dickens world (c) Boz (c) old curiosity Park This is Dickens’ final Dickens is said to novel, which was have suffered from 7 not completed before he died.

4 this disease. Check out the answers!

B — 9 a — 6 c

(a) epilepsy (a) The Mystery of Edwin Drood — 3

c 8— a — 5 c

(b) Polio (b) Our Mutual Friend — 2

B — 10 a — 7 a — 4 c

(c) Rickets (c) Barnaby Rudge — 1

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