Hard Times Quizzes

Hard Times Quiz 1

1 What is Sissy's real name?
Josephine

Meredith

Cecilia

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

Mr. Sleary

Bitzer

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

Stone Lodge

Parliament

The panopticon
4 Where does Mr. Gradgrind live?
Stone Lodge

In "a banker's room"

In his school

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

Charles

Louisa

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

Mr. M'Choakumchild

Mr. Sleary

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

Banker

Drunkard

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

Pegasus's Legs

Pegasus's Arms

Pegasus's Wings
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?
An endless supply of gin

Public welfare

Venison and a golden egg

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

The fits

A burglar

French liquor
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 smell the city air

To see the fine city gentlemen
13 Dickens compares Mr. Gradgrind to which character of children's fairy tales?
Ali Baba

King Arthur

The giant from "Jack and the Beanstalk"

Bluebeard
14 Where does Mr. Bounderby say that he lived as a young man?
Overseas

In the gutter

London

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

Slackbridge

Tom Gradgrind

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

Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby

Mr. and Mrs. Gradgrind

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

Her brother, Tom Gradgrind

Herself

Her new husband, Mr. Bounderby
18 Coketown is likened to what fallen city of the Bible?
Jerusalem

Babylon

Babel

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

"Icarus"

"Kid"

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

Stephen Blackpool

Mr. Harthouse

Bitzer
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 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 is married

After Bounderby sells his country house

After she retires

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

Jem

Great Pyramid

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

Her resistance to Mr. Harthouse's advances.

Her insistence on attending lectures

Her spite for Mrs. Sparsit

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