Hard Times Quizzes

Hard Times Quiz 1

1 What is Sissy's real name?
Sleary

Meredith

Josephine

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

Louisa

Mr. Thomas Gradgrind

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

Stone Lodge

The factory

Parliament
4 Where does Mr. Gradgrind live?
In his school

In "a banker's room"

Stone Lodge

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

Adam Smith

Jane

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

Her father

Mr. Sleary

Her mother
7 What is Signor Jupe's true profession?
Banker

Drunkard

Circus Performer

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

Pegasus's Wings

Pegasus's Arms

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

London

Manchester

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

Public welfare

An endless supply of gin

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

French liquor

A train

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

To see the fine city gentlemen

To cheer up Stephen Blackpool

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?
In the gutter

London

In a small country town

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

The "mysterious old woman"

Tom Gradgrind

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

Tom Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby

Louisa and Mr. Gradgrind

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

Her new husband, Mr. Bounderby

Her brother, Tom Gradgrind

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

Albion

Babylon

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

"Kid"

"Malthus"

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

Bitzer

Stephen Blackpool

Tom Gradgrind
21 What is the name of Slackbridge's labor movement?
Coketown Hands United

United Tribunal of Hands

United Aggregate Tribunal

United Coketown Hands
22 Why does Stephen Blackpool refuse to join the labor movement?
Because he does not trust Mr. Slackbridge

Out of loyalty to Mr. Bounderby

Because of a promise to Rachael

Because he is afraid of losing his job
23 When does Mrs. Sparsit move into Bounderby's bank?
After Bounderby is married

After she retires

After Bounderby sells his country house

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

Hart

Kid

Great Pyramid
25 What is Louisa's "curious reserve"?
Her hidden stash of bank-notes

Her insistence on attending lectures

Her spite for Mrs. Sparsit

Her resistance to Mr. Harthouse's advances.

What is the name of Slack Bridge labor movement?

I believe the movement is called the "Brotherhood"

Asked by Tumasang Ngum T #601967

Answered by jill d #170087 on 11/15/2023 12:38 PM

Slackbridge is the dishonorable and deceitful leader of the labor movement: The United Aggregate Tribunal. He takes the legitimate concerns of the laborers and exploits them for his own power.

Asked by Roop K #1050217

Answered by jill d #170087 on 9/11/2023 9:34 AM

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The Circus in Hard Times

Some would say that the circus symbolizes amusement, or the need people have for amusement and entertainment. But although this is true, the circus also represents something..... something more simple, and that is a contradiction to Gradgrind's...

Asked by Agnes T #586481

Answered by jill d #170087 on 3/29/2017 12:04 PM

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Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

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