Charles Dickens Exam I Practice
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- 1.Dickens believed strongly that Victorian novelists could simply imitate eighteenth-century fiction, especially because eighteenth-century novelists such as Henry Fielding tended to focus on highly moral characters and never included anything improper in their novels.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.The nasty judge's name, Fang, in Chapter 11 indicates that in Dickens' world he is most likely a minor character.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.In Chapter 10, Oliver is shocked to learn that his new "friends" are:
- A.
Thieves
- B.
Devoted cyclists
- C.
Spies for the police
- D.
Prostitutes
- 4.When Oliver meets Jack Dawkins in Chapter 8, Dawkins is described as:
- A.
A juvenile, but having the air and manners of a man
- B.
A juvenile, but having the air and manners of a girl
- C.
A boy, but having the air and manners of a girl
- D.
A man, but having the air and manners of a juvenile
- 5.In Chapter 7, Bumble's explanations for Oliver's behavior:
- A.
The Sowerberrys have fed him too much meat
- B.
He comes from a bad family, especially his mother
- C.
Too many violent video games
- D.
He's hungry and therefore not able to make rational decisions
- 6.Brownlow and Grimwig place a wager that when Oliver is sent out to return Brownlow's books, he:
- A.
Will not return to the house, but will instead rejoin the gang of thieves
- B.
Will forget to return them because he sees a shop full of tasty treats
- C.
Will return home quickly because London is super scary
- D.
Will read them all before returning them
- 7.Marks of minor characters in Oliver Twist:
- A.
They have one outstanding quality/attribute that defines them and they do not deviate from this (they're "flat")
- B.
Their names are very "on the nose," indicative of their character/personality
- C.
They tend to be fully identified with their professsions/work
- D.
They're all very nice to Oliver
- 8.NOT a difference in the 2006 Oliver Twist we watched during class:
- A.
It starts with Oliver as a young boy, not a baby
- B.
Agnes has a locket that seems significant. And a letter.
- C.
Agnes arriving at the workhouse is dramatized
- D.
We learn Oliver's mother's name, Agnes
- 9.Two major literary genres when Dickens began writing fiction:
- A.
"Newgate" novels about criminals
- B.
"Silver-fork" novels about aristocrats
- C.
"War" novels about WWII
- D.
"Gothic" novels about vampires
- 10.Dickens' and the narrator's voice view of children in Oliver Twist is best defined as:
- A.
Children are fundamentally innocent; they are corrupted by society (i.e. adults), when their innocence should be respected and protected
- B.
Children are fundamentally inclined to evil (Original Sin and all that)
- C.
Children should be put to work as chimney sweeps
- D.
Children are just little adults
- 11.Key features of Oliver Twist
- A.
It was published serially
- B.
It features a child protagonist, very unusual for the era (perhaps unprecedented)
- C.
It focuses on the lives of the poor, which some readers of the time were not thrilled about
- D.
Dickens didn't really care if it sold well; he wrote it for his own satisfaction
- 12.When Nancy tells Rose that "if there were more like you, there would be fewer like me" (Chapter 40), she seems to be blaming prostitution on:
- A.
Other women, presumably for being judgmental
- B.
Mr. Bumble
- C.
Men
- D.
Fate
- 13.What is true of Nancy's murder?
- A.
Fagin tells Sikes not to be "too violent," but it's pretty clear that he doesn't mean it.
- B.
Colonel Mustard kills her with a lead pipe in the conservatory
- C.
Sikes isn't angry when he kills her; he goes about the job calmly.
- D.
Sikes doesn't murder her; his dog does.
- 14.The transparency criterion of Realism mandates that the narrative focus on what is told in a story, not how it is told: the narrative technique should not call attention to itself.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.Based on the presentations in class, conclusions about the 2007 television adaptation of Oliver Twist:
- A.
Oliver's character is altered considerably from the novel; he's "round," a rebellious little boy who stands up to injustice.
- B.
The adaptation cleans up and simplifies the novel's often-bewildering plot
- C.
Tom Hardy is a handsome and charismatic Bill Sikes, unlike the fairly uncomplicated thuggish criminal in the novel.
- D.
The adaptation completely eliminates Fagin as a character, so as to avoid the novel's anti-Semitic portrayal.
- 16.Fagin's explanation for why he was unable to turn Oliver from goodness into a enjoying a life of crime is that:
- A.
He didn't have anything to hold over him to make him become worse
- B.
Oliver fought Fagin off with karate kicks
- C.
Oliver's sole motivation in life was to find his father and he cared about nothing else
- D.
Fagin admits that he just didn't really try to turn Oliver bad because Oliver was so darned cute
- 17.What is true about Victorian Realism
- A.
It was a response to the "decadence" of the novel in the early 19th century
- B.
1820-37 was a "down" period for the novel, with only Sir Walter Scott being of lasting repute
- C.
"Genre" fiction, which is basically novels about novels, dominated the literary scope
- D.
All of the above
- E.
None of the above
- 18.For all his faults, what is a good quality in Dickens' writing that defines his use of Realism?
- A.
His intense research
- B.
His drawing skills
- C.
His cocaine addiction
- D.
The lack of anti-Semitism
- 19.What killed the Newgate novel?
- A.
Parody
- B.
Jack Sheppard Controversy (guy "inspired" by novels to kill his boss)
- C.
CSI: Miami
- D.
It can't be killed in a way that matters
- 20.Oliver Twist is a Newgate Novel.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.Which of these are central events in Charles Dickens life that cements his works as almost autobiographical in the weirdest way.
- A.
Family relocated to London; Charles worked in a factory at age ten and met Fagin
- B.
Mary Hogarth's sudden death
- C.
He explored the sewers of Paris on a hot summer day
- D.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published
- 22.The workhouses were so terrible because it was believed that a miserable experience would mean that no one would want to endure it, so no one would take "advantage" of it.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.Dickens' narrator DOESN'T get a pass on transparency because he utilizes an overly chatty narrator.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 24.In Realism, ________ focuses on the what, not how the story is being told.
- 25.In Realism, __________ means the plot of the story should be plausible, not ridiculous.
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