Hard Times Quizzes

Hard Times Quiz 1

1 What is Sissy's real name?
Sleary

Josephine

Meredith

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

Louisa

Bitzer

Mr. Thomas Gradgrind
3 What is the model for Mr. Gradgrind's school?
The factory

Parliament

Stone Lodge

The panopticon
4 Where does Mr. Gradgrind live?
In "a banker's room"

Westminster

In his school

Stone Lodge
5 Who is not one of the Gradgrind's children?
Charles

Jane

Adam Smith

Louisa
6 At the beginning of Hard Times who is Sissy's "legal guardian"?
Mr. Sleary

Her mother

Mr. M'Choakumchild

Her father
7 What is Signor Jupe's true profession?
Circus Performer

Veterinary Surgeon

Drunkard

Banker
8 What is the name of the Public House where Sissy lives?
The Pegasus

Pegasus's Arms

Pegasus's Wings

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

Liverpool

Birmingham

London
10 What does Mr. Bounderby think that the poor want?
Venison and a golden egg

An endless supply of gin

Public welfare

Turtle soup and a golden spoon
11 What killed Mrs. Sparsit's husband?
A train

The fits

French liquor

A burglar
12 Why does the "mysterious old woman" come to Coketown each year?
To lodge at Mr. Bounderby's house

To smell the city air

To cheer up Stephen Blackpool

To see the fine city gentlemen
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?
In the gutter

In a small country town

Overseas

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

The "mysterious old woman"

His drunk wife

Tom Gradgrind
16 Who arranges the marriage between Louisa and Mr. Bounderby?
Tom Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby

Louisa and Mr. Gradgrind

Mr. and Mrs. Gradgrind

Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby
17 Who does Louisa love more than anyone else?
Her new husband, Mr. Bounderby

Her brother, Tom Gradgrind

Herself

Her mother, Mrs. Gradgrind
18 Coketown is likened to what fallen city of the Bible?
Babel

Albion

Jerusalem

Babylon
19 What name is used to describe Tom in the second half of the novel?
"Kid"

"Whelp"

"Malthus"

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

Mr. Harthouse

Stephen Blackpool

Bitzer
21 What is the name of Slackbridge's labor movement?
United Tribunal of Hands

Coketown Hands United

United Coketown Hands

United Aggregate Tribunal
22 Why does Stephen Blackpool refuse to join the labor movement?
Because of a promise to Rachael

Because he is afraid of losing his job

Because he does not trust Mr. Slackbridge

Out of loyalty to Mr. Bounderby
23 When does Mrs. Sparsit move into Bounderby's bank?
After Bounderby sells his country house

After she retires

After Bounderby is married

After the theft
24 What is Harthouse's nickname?
Kid

Great Pyramid

Jem

Hart
25 What is Louisa's "curious reserve"?
Her insistence on attending lectures

Her resistance to Mr. Harthouse's advances.

Her spite for Mrs. Sparsit

Her hidden stash of bank-notes

comment on the prose satire of the age of the 18th century

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Compare and contrast the chapters entitled " The One Thing Needful and " Another thing Needful?

The novel begins with a short introduction. Inside a classroom, "the speaker" repeats the exclamation "Now, what I want is, Facts." He presents the argument that the formation of a child's mind must be rooted in the study of fact. The schoolroom...

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Mr. Gradgrind believes that students should just memorize large amounts of facts. He says the key to learning is, "facts, not fancy."

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Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

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