Hard Times Quizzes

Hard Times Quiz 1

1 What is Sissy's real name?
Cecilia

Josephine

Meredith

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

Mr. Sleary

Mr. Thomas Gradgrind

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

Parliament

The factory

Stone Lodge
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

Louisa

Jane

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

Mr. M'Choakumchild

Her mother

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

Circus Performer

Banker

Veterinary Surgeon
8 What is the name of the Public House where Sissy lives?
Pegasus's Wings

Pegasus's Arms

The Pegasus

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

Manchester

Liverpool

Birmingham
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?
The fits

A burglar

A train

French liquor
12 Why does the "mysterious old woman" come to Coketown each year?
To smell the city air

To see the fine city gentlemen

To cheer up Stephen Blackpool

To lodge at Mr. Bounderby's house
13 Dickens compares Mr. Gradgrind to which character of children's fairy tales?
The giant from "Jack and the Beanstalk"

Bluebeard

Ali Baba

King Arthur
14 Where does Mr. Bounderby say that he lived as a young man?
In the gutter

London

Overseas

In a small country town
15 Who pays Stephen an unwelcome visit in the middle of the night?
The "mysterious old woman"

Slackbridge

His drunk wife

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

Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby

Tom Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby

Mr. and Mrs. Gradgrind
17 Who does Louisa love more than anyone else?
Her brother, Tom Gradgrind

Her new husband, Mr. Bounderby

Herself

Her mother, Mrs. 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?
"Icarus"

"Whelp"

"Malthus"

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

Tom Gradgrind

Stephen Blackpool

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

United Coketown Hands

United Aggregate Tribunal

United Tribunal of Hands
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

Out of loyalty to Mr. Bounderby

Because he does not trust Mr. Slackbridge
23 When does Mrs. Sparsit move into Bounderby's bank?
After Bounderby sells his country house

After Bounderby is married

After she retires

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

Great Pyramid

Kid

Jem
25 What is Louisa's "curious reserve"?
Her spite for Mrs. Sparsit

Her insistence on attending lectures

Her resistance to Mr. Harthouse's advances.

Her hidden stash of bank-notes

The inhumanity of an employer like Bounderby and the misery of a laborer like Blackpool are portrayed clearly enough in Hard Times & Discuss?

Mr. Bounderby is one of the central characters of the novel. He is a business acquaintance of Mr. Thomas Gradgrind. He employs many of the characters in the novel and he is very wealthy. He marries Louisa Gradgrind (several decades his junior) and...

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Answered by Aslan on 6/2/2020 5:08 PM