Hard Times Quizzes

Hard Times Quiz 1

1 What is Sissy's real name?

Meredith

Sleary

Josephine

Cecilia
2 Who offers the "correct" definition of a horse?

Louisa

Bitzer

Mr. Thomas Gradgrind

Mr. Sleary
3 What is the model for Mr. Gradgrind's school?

Parliament

Stone Lodge

The factory

The panopticon
4 Where does Mr. Gradgrind live?

In "a banker's room"

Westminster

Stone Lodge

In his school
5 Who is not one of the Gradgrind's children?

Charles

Jane

Louisa

Adam Smith
6 At the beginning of Hard Times who is Sissy's "legal guardian"?

Mr. M'Choakumchild

Her mother

Her father

Mr. Sleary
7 What is Signor Jupe's true profession?

Veterinary Surgeon

Drunkard

Banker

Circus Performer
8 What is the name of the Public House where Sissy lives?

Pegasus's Legs

The Pegasus

Pegasus's Wings

Pegasus's Arms
9 Coketown is a literary representation of which major British city?

London

Liverpool

Birmingham

Manchester
10 What does Mr. Bounderby think that the poor want?

Turtle soup and a golden spoon

Public welfare

Venison and a golden egg

An endless supply of gin
11 What killed Mrs. Sparsit's husband?

The fits

French liquor

A burglar

A train
12 Why does the "mysterious old woman" come to Coketown each year?

To lodge at Mr. Bounderby's house

To cheer up Stephen Blackpool

To see the fine city gentlemen

To smell the city air
13 Dickens compares Mr. Gradgrind to which character of children's fairy tales?

King Arthur

Ali Baba

Bluebeard

The giant from "Jack and the Beanstalk"
14 Where does Mr. Bounderby say that he lived as a young man?

Overseas

In the gutter

In a small country town

London
15 Who pays Stephen an unwelcome visit in the middle of the night?

Slackbridge

Tom Gradgrind

The "mysterious old woman"

His drunk wife
16 Who arranges the marriage between Louisa and Mr. Bounderby?

Tom Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby

Louisa and Mr. Gradgrind

Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby

Mr. and Mrs. Gradgrind
17 Who does Louisa love more than anyone else?

Her new husband, Mr. Bounderby

Herself

Her mother, Mrs. Gradgrind

Her brother, Tom Gradgrind
18 Coketown is likened to what fallen city of the Bible?

Jerusalem

Babel

Babylon

Albion
19 What name is used to describe Tom in the second half of the novel?

"Whelp"

"Malthus"

"Icarus"

"Kid"
20 Who is not an employee of Mr. Bounderby at some point in the novel?

Mr. Harthouse

Tom Gradgrind

Bitzer

Stephen Blackpool
21 What is the name of Slackbridge's labor movement?

United Tribunal of Hands

United Coketown Hands

United Aggregate Tribunal

Coketown Hands United
22 Why does Stephen Blackpool refuse to join the labor movement?

Because he is afraid of losing his job

Because he does not trust Mr. Slackbridge

Because of a promise to Rachael

Out of loyalty to Mr. Bounderby
23 When does Mrs. Sparsit move into Bounderby's bank?

After she retires

After Bounderby sells his country house

After Bounderby is married

After the theft
24 What is Harthouse's nickname?

Hart

Kid

Great Pyramid

Jem
25 What is Louisa's "curious reserve"?

Her resistance to Mr. Harthouse's advances.

Her spite for Mrs. Sparsit

Her insistence on attending lectures

Her hidden stash of bank-notes

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Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

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