The Chimes

Charles Dickens · 1844

Ten questions on plot, characters and themes. Take it free. Pass 7 of 10 to ace it.

Question 1 of 10

What is Toby Veck's work?

A ticket-porter, waiting outside a church for errandsA bell-ringerA newspaper sellerA night watchman

Question 2 of 10

What is he nicknamed, and why?

Trotty, because of the way he runs on errandsTick, because he waits by the clockChimes, after the bellsToby Two, after his father

Question 3 of 10

What is his daughter called?

MegLilianDotAlice

Question 4 of 10

What do Alderman Cute and Mr Filer tell him about the poor?

That they deserve helpThat they are born bad and have no right to complainThat times are improvingThat the church will provide

Question 5 of 10

What does Mr Filer calculate about Meg's tripe?

That it is too expensiveThat in eating it she takes food out of other mouthsThat it is bad for her healthThat she paid too little for it

Question 6 of 10

What makes Toby despair of his own class?

A sermon he hearsA newspaper story of a woman who killed her childA quarrel with MegLosing his work

Question 7 of 10

On which night does the story turn?

Christmas EveNew Year's EveMidsummer nightTwelfth Night

Question 8 of 10

Where do the bells take him?

Up into the church towerOut of the townInto the riverTo the Alderman's house

Question 9 of 10

What do the goblins of the bells show him?

His own childhoodVisions of what becomes of Meg, Richard and the othersThe inside of the churchA map of the town

Question 10 of 10

How does it end?

Meg drowns and Toby is left aloneIt was a dream, and Meg marries Richard on New Year's DayToby dies in the towerThe bells fall silent for ever

0 of 10 answered

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