Use a library facility
or the internet to find the answers to these questions:
1. Where was Charles
Dickens born?
2. When was he born?
3. What were his parents
called?
4. Name two schools that
he attended.
5. Where did the
twelve-year-old Dickens work?
6. Name two other jobs
that he had.
7. As a young writer, what
was Dickens’s pseudonym?
8. What was the name of
Dickens’s first love?
9. Which character did she
inspire and in which novel?
10. What was his wife’s
name?
11. In what year were they married?
12. Name three of Dickens’s
ten children.
13. Name three novels by
Charles Dickens.
14. In which novel do we
meet the unscrupulous Sir Mulberry Hawk?
15. Which miserable Dickens
character snarls: “Every idiot who goes
about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of
holly through his heart.”? In which novel does he appear?
16. In what year did
Dickens’s father die?
17. Name the house on
18. In what year did Dickens
separate from his wife Catherine?
19. Name the actress with
whom Dickens spent the rest of his life.
20. When and where did
Dickens die?