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  1. IN WHICH YEAR WAS CHARLES DICKENS BORN?
  2. WHERE WAS HE BORN? WAS IT: a) LONDON b) PORTSMOUTH c) CHATHAM
  3. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF CHARLES DICKENS’ FATHER?
  4. WAS CHARLES DICKENS EVER EMPLOYED BY A FIRM OF SOLICITORS? YES / NO
  5. COMPLETE THE TITLES OF THESE DICKENS’ NOVELS:
    • PICKWICK
    • NICHOLAS
    • BLEAK
    • GREAT
    • OUR MUTUAL
  6. IN WHICH NOVELS DO THE FOLLOWING APPEAR?
    • Bumble the Beadle
    • The Artful Dodger
    • Uriah Heap

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    • Mr. Micawber
    • Wachford Squeers
  7. Dickens’ brother was an engineer, who was involved in the construction of railway lines in the Malton area. WHAT WAS HIS NAME?
  8. WHICH COUNTRY DID DICKENS VISIT IN 1842?
  9. WHICH OF THE HOGARTH SISTERS DID DICKENS MARRY? WAS IT: A) CATHERINE B) MARY C) GEORGINA
  10. WHO WAS SCROOGE’S LATE PARTNER IN ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’?
  11. WHO SAID ‘ PLEASE SIR, I WANT SOME MORE’ ?
  12. IN WHICH NOVEL DOES DOTHEBOYS HALL APPEAR?
  13. IN WHICH NOVEL DOES SAIREY GAMP FEATURE?
  14. WHEN VISITING MALTON, AT WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DID HE STAY? –
    A) EASTHORPE HALL, YORK HOUSE, MALTON, THE ABBEY HOUSE, OLD MALTON
  15. IN WHICH YEAR DID CHARLES DICKENS COME TO MALTON FOR THE FUNERAL OF HIS FRIEND CHARLES SMITHSON?
  16. IN WHICH YEAR DID CHARLES DICKENS DIE?
  17. WHERE DID CHARLES DICKENS DIE? WAS IT: A) DOUGHTY STREET B) RAMSGATE C) GADS HILL, KENT
  18. WHICH NOVEL DID CHARLES DICKENS LEAVE UNFINISHED?
  19. WHERE IS CHARLES DICKENS BURIED?


Author:Malcolm Chalk (WWSM)
Date:06/09/2008