Oliver Twist Quiz
1. Who runs the home for young
orphans where Oliver lives for nine
years?
(A) Mr. Bumble
(B) Mrs. Mann
(C) Agnes Fleming
(D) Miss Hannigan
3. What is Mr. Gamfield’s profession?
(A) Undertaker
(B) Chef
(C) Butler
(D) Chimney sweep
2. How does Oliver violate the rules
of the workhouse?
(A) By asking for more gruel
(B) By taking the Lord’s name in vain
(C) By running a pickpocketing ring
(D) By spreading revolutionary
ideology among the paupers
4. What is Mr. Sowerberry’s
profession?
(A) Undertaker
(B) Chef
(C) Butler
(D) Chimney sweep
5. How does Noah Claypole incur
Oliver’s wrath?
(A) By insulting his mother
(B) By insulting his clothes
(C) By mistreating Charlotte
6. What is Jack Dawkins’s nickname?
(A) Toby Crackit
(B) The Artful Dodger
(C) Loopy
(D) The Jackal
(D) By stealing food from the
larder
7. Of what ethnicity is Fagin?
8. Mr. Brownlow notices that Oliver
bears a close resemblance to whom?
(A) Irish
(A) Mrs. Bedwin
(B) Italian
(B) The woman in the portrait on his wall
(C) Mixed race
(C) Queen Victoria
(D) Jewish
(D) The Christ child
9. What does Nancy pretend to be in
order to drag Oliver back to Fagin?
10. Who comes to Oliver’s defense
after Fagin recaptures him?
(A) A truant officer
(A) Jack Dawkins
(B) Oliver’s sister
(B) Charley Bates
(C) A workhouse official
(C) Nancy
(D) Oliver’s mother
(D) Mr. Brownlow
11. Who is shot in the attempted
burglary of the Maylie house?
12. Which character falls deathly ill in
the countryside?
(A) Oliver
(A) Oliver
(B) Bill Sikes
(B) Mrs. Maylie
(C) Bull’s-eye
(C) Mr. Bumble
(D) Toby Crackit
(D) Rose Maylie
13. Why does Mr. Bumble propose to
Mrs. Corney?
(A) He wants to take revenge on Oliver
(B) She reminds him of his late
wife
(C) He wants children
(D) He wants her money
15. Why does Rose refuse to marry
Harry Maylie?
(A) Because they are related
(B) Because she does not want to
stand in the way of his ambition
(C) Because she wants to marry
someone who would be a better
provider
(D) Because she is in love with Bill Sikes
14. What did Old Sally steal from
Agnes Fleming?
(A) A will
(B) A marriage certificate
(C) An engraved watch
(D) A gold locket
16. To whom does the dog Bull’s-eye
belong?
(A) Bill Sikes
(B) Oliver
(C) Monks
(D) Mr. Brownlow
17. What is Nancy’s profession?
(A) Flower-seller
18. Where does Nancy meet Rose and
Brownlow?
(A) London Bridge
(B) Nurse
(B) The Three Cripples
(C) Prostitute
(C) The Old Victoria Theater
(D) Con artist
(D) A blacking factory
19. What image haunts Bill Sikes after
he commits murder?
(A) Oliver’s face
(B) A bloody club
(C) The gallows
(D) Nancy’s eyes
20. Which three characters are all
related to Oliver?
(A) Harry Maylie, Mrs. Maylie, Rose
Maylie
(B) Rose Maylie, Monks, Agnes Fleming
(C) Agnes Fleming, Old Sally, Mr.
Losberne
(D) Monks, Bill Sikes, Agnes Fleming
21. Where does Oliver last see Fagin?
(A) In a courtroom
22. Which character’s real name is
Edward Leeford?
(A) Jack Dawkins
(B) In the West Indies
(B) Monks
(C) Underneath London Bridge
(C) Oliver
(D) In a jail cell
(D) Noah Claypole
23. Which character is subject to
violent spasmodic fits?
24. Which of the following novels did
Dickens not write?
(A) Monks
(A) Bleak House
(B) Fagin
(B) The Mill on the Floss
(C) Bull’s-eye
(C) The Pickwick Papers
(D) Mr. Grimwig
(D) Great Expectations
25. Dickens wrote Oliver Twist in response to what piece of legislation?
(A) The Law of Estates and Inheritance
(B) The Poor Law of 1834
(C) The institution of the death penalty
(D) The Decency Act