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?
Mr. Thomas Gradgrind

Louisa

Mr. Sleary

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

Stone Lodge

The panopticon

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

Westminster

In his school

In "a banker's room"
5 Who is not one of the Gradgrind's children?
Adam Smith

Louisa

Charles

Jane
6 At the beginning of Hard Times who is Sissy's "legal guardian"?
Her father

Her mother

Mr. Sleary

Mr. M'Choakumchild
7 What is Signor Jupe's true profession?
Circus Performer

Veterinary Surgeon

Banker

Drunkard
8 What is the name of the Public House where Sissy lives?
Pegasus's Legs

Pegasus's Arms

Pegasus's Wings

The Pegasus
9 Coketown is a literary representation of which major British city?
Manchester

Birmingham

London

Liverpool
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?
The fits

A train

French liquor

A burglar
12 Why does the "mysterious old woman" come to Coketown each year?
To cheer up Stephen Blackpool

To see the fine city gentlemen

To smell the city air

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"

Ali Baba

Bluebeard

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

In a small country town

London

In the gutter
15 Who pays Stephen an unwelcome visit in the middle of the night?
His drunk wife

Slackbridge

The "mysterious old woman"

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 mother, Mrs. Gradgrind

Her new husband, Mr. Bounderby

Herself

Her brother, Tom Gradgrind
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?
"Malthus"

"Kid"

"Whelp"

"Icarus"
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 Coketown Hands

United Aggregate Tribunal

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

Because he is afraid of losing his job

Because of a promise to Rachael

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

After the theft

After she retires

After Bounderby sells his country house
24 What is Harthouse's nickname?
Great Pyramid

Hart

Jem

Kid
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.

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Sissy preserved the "nine oils", believing that her father would one day return.

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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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by Charles Dickens

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