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The competition was won by Letizia Kutscher and Mia Sinclair (both Year 7). They collected their prizes from Miss Pattenden, as pictured below. Along with editions of Great Expectations and Bleak House, Letizia and Mia received Dickensian quill pens and specially packaged bottled ink.
Well done to all the girls who took part!
Try the quiz for yourself - questions below. Click for full list of answers at the end of the quiz.
The questions were:
1. In a recent poll asking readers who their favourite Dickensian character was, which was most popular?
(a) Miss Havisham
(b) Ebenezer Scrooge
(c) David Copperfield
2. Which of the following novels was published first?
(a) Our Mutual Friend
(b) Great Expectations
(c) The Pickwick Papers
3. The following sentences open which Dickens novel? ‘London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather…’
4. The following sentences conclude which Dickens novel? ‘O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!’
5. From which Dickens novel do the following characters come from: Jack Adams, Harriet Carker, John Chick, Captain Ned Cuttle, the Hon Mrs Skewton, Mrs Macstinger
6. In 1865, Dickens was involved in a railway accident. Where did this take place? (Staplehurst, Kent)
7. In which British city was Dickens born on 7 February 1812? (Portsmouth)
8. Dickens passed away on 9 June 1870. Where was he at the time of his death? (Gad’s Hill, Kent)