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Dickens Video

1.  T/F  Dickens was born in Ireland. False, Landport, Portsmouth, English (1812-1870)

2.  What is the house that Dickens always wanted to own:

a.  Bleak House     
b.  Fort House                        
c. Gad's Hill                 
d.  Underhill

e.  none of the above

3.  What is one way the video tells that Dickens got ideas for his characters?

a.  he walked around and visited local pubs     
b.  he learned from others' novels

c.  he simply invented them as he wrote     
d.  he imagined himself in different circumstances

4. T/F The Pickwick Papers, being his first novel, did not actually sell any copies. False, it was successful.

5.  Dickens' writings were meant to elicit  a greater ________________________________ in his readership.

a.  Hatred of the Aristocracy      
b.  Social Conscience                 
c.  Orthodox Religion

d.  Unorthodox Religion     
e.  belief in one's self                 
f.  none of the above

6.  The Cutty Sark was named after a character from _________________'s writing:

a.  Charles Dickens                 
b.  Walter Scott        
c.  Robert Burns           
d.  William Shakespeare

7.  T/F  More than 20,000 plantations were opened abroad to support Britain's tea-drinking habit. False, more than 6,000.

8.  T/F  Queen Victoria attempted to have Dickens assassinated near the end of this life. False.

9.  Which was not a product of the Victorian Era?

a.  The railroad     
b.  leisure travel for the middle class     
c.  street lighting

d. picnics             
e.  car phones
f. a police force
g.  zoo
h.  underground subways

10. T/F The Victorian period was one of unbridled greed and inhumanity leaving the modern world nothing but overcrowded cities as its heritage.  False.

11.  Dickens wished a simple, private funeral with no monuments to his fame.  True. 
hehehe: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/19/dickens-statue-portsmouth