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Do you know your Dickens?

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Where was Charles Dickens born in 1812?

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Why is The Mystery Of Edwin Drood unique amongst Dickens’ novels?

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In Great Expectations, who defrauded Miss Havisham and jilted her at the altar, leaving her frozen in a state of mourning, forever wearing her wedding dress?

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How many children did Dickens have with his wife Catherine?

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What’s the subtitle of Oliver Twist?

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How many ghosts visit Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?

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What’s the name of the long-running legal case that forms the focus of Bleak House?

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” These are the opening words of which Dickens novel?

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Where is Dickens’ only surviving London home, now home to the Charles Dickens Museum?

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What is the nature of the titular family business in Dombey And Son?

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Charles Dickens’ middle initials are JH. What do they stand for?

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Why is Little Dorrit unique amongst Dickens’ novels?

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What’s the name of the fictional Northern town where Hard Times is set?

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Which of Dickens’ novels is considered to be the most autobiographical?

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Before he became a novelist, under what pen-name did Dickens write “Sketches of Everyday Life and Everyday People” in newspapers and magazines?

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Which of these sets of names are not characters in Dickens novels?

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Dickens had a much-loved pet called Grip, which he had stuffed when it died. What sort of animal was Grip?

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"One would have to have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without dissolving into tears... of laughter." Oscar Wilde dismissed which Dickens novel with these words?

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What, respectively, are Dickens’ shortest and longest books?