Charles Dickens has given us some of the most memorable characters in English literature. But how well do you really know the man himself? Test your knowledge of his life and works with our quiz for a chance to win £30 worth of OUP books.
To enter the competition, answer the following multiple choice questions below. To enter the quiz you don’t need to log in to the resources, just click on the links below. However to have access to the full reference works to which your library subscribes you will need to log in with your library card. The lucky winner will be drawn at random and notified by email after the closing date on 31st May 2012. Good luck!
1. Use the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to find out what Charles Dickens did at Robert Warren's London 'blacking factory'— an experience that had a big influence on his novel Oliver Twist. Was it:
2. In Dickens's Oliver Twist, Oliver famously asks for some more gruel. What sort of food is gruel? Use www.oxfordictionaries.com to find out.
3.2. Visit our Oliver Twist page to answer the following question: Which character from ‘Oliver Twist’ is shown on the book’s cover?
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