The Charlie or Jim Quiz: Identify these Characters as Dickens or Joyce Creations!

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1. I GOT 9 OUT OF 15
   Great post!

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   • Thank you, LaJenna 🙂  

2. Okay. I got 9/15. Good quiz. I got better guesses here.??

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   • You did, indeed, Cassy! Well done and thanks for playing 🙂

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3. I got 9 correct…I mostly guessed though since I haven’t read from these authors. Great quiz!

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   • Well that makes you a good guesser, Mom, and that’s an important life skill 🙂 Thanks for playing!

4. 9 of 15…I’ve read a lot more Dickens than Joyce. I fear tonight I’ll be visited by the Ghost of Literature Teachers Past!

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   • LOL Paul, let’s hope the ghost teacher isn’t too harsh! Thanks for playing 🙂

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5. Got 10/15…nice quiz.. 🙂

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   • Hey you did well, Traf! There’s nothing easy about this one, so thanks for playing 🙂

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     • Yeah..but i had fun a lot Norman…keep it up 🙂

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6. Fun quiz! I like your words – “chalk and cheese.” Well done, Norman!

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   • Thank you for the appreciation, Jackie 🙂 And I’m glad you enjoyed the quiz!

7. You got 12 out of 15 right!
   Great
   Incidentally they are my childhood friend, kite companion.

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   • Kite companion 🙂 Lovely phrase. You are a true wordsmith, Albert! And you did well in the quiz, too 🙂

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     • Given the English is not the mother tongue, often I just write. Right or wrong, I don’t know. So, to be honest, I also do not know, it’s a genuine compliment ?r a true mockery.

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       • You wrote very expressively, Albert. It is in a wordsmith’s licence to be inventive with language and I am genuinely commending you for it 🙂

8. You got 12 out of 15 right!

   Great

   Haven’;t read much of James Joyce but used to enjoy Charles Dickens a lot. Reading classics nowadays require a lot of time and concentration. i wonder if children of future generation will bother reading classics fr pleasure.

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   • You did very nicely, Dawnwriter 🙂 I wonder, or rather, fear, the same. Of my four children, though all started out as good readers, only the eldest reads constantly, and each one down, reads less. There are so many distractions now!

9. I got 12 out of 15 which was a lot better than I thought I would. Literature is not my strong suite. I’ve only read three of Dicken’s books and none of Joyce’s.

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   • 12 is a very good result, Gary, as some of these are minor characters. I suspect anyone under 30 who had read 3 of Dickens’s books would be claiming literature as a strong suite 😉

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10. 11/15 because I haven’t read as much victorian literature as I should’ve…

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    • Plenty of time to turn that around, man! Hey you did well though 🙂

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      • How kind of you to say. My problem with victorian literature is the pacing seems painfully slow to me. But I love their chapter titling convention, even if it is a little spoilerific…

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        • aha – yes, a bit spoilerific! I find Dickens hard to read too, though I’ve enjoyed many of the film and telly dramatisations of his work. Joyce is a different matter altogether – he’s much more of this era, and of course the fact that he hails from Dublin, as do I, helps me get inside his work.

11. I got 10 correct, great quiz Norman!

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    • Oh you didn’t do bad at all! Thanks for playing, Carol 🙂

12. got 8 out of 15 right!

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    • Not bad, Edith! Thanks for playing 🙂