Test your Charles Dickens knowledge

How much do you really know about the father of the modern Christmas?

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On Jun 12, 2018

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Test your Charles Dickens knowledge

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What was the original name of the road in Portsmouth where Charles Dickens was born in 1812?

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Charles Dickens' father, John, worked in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard from 1807 to 1815 - what was his job?

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Charles Dickens only wrote about the city of Portsmouth in one of his novels.

Name that novel.

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Which of the ships at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard did Charles Dickens describe as, 'a black vicious ugly customer as ever I saw, whale-like in size, and with as terrible a row of incisor teeth as ever closed on a French frigate'.

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What is the name of the theatre in Portsmouth that inspired the theatre in the novel Nicholas Nickleby?

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