"A Christmas Carol"

Question 1

How has Dickens presented change in Scrooge?

Answer 1

Scrooge says in Stave 2,” There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should have liked to have given him something that’s all”

Question 2

How has Dickens presented change in Scrooge?

Answer 2

Scrooge says in Stave 2,”Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind, and answered briefly, Yes”

Question 3

How has Dickens presented change in Scrooge?

Answer 3

Scrooge says in Stave 2,”I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now. That’s all.”

Question 4

How has Dickens presented change in Scrooge?

Answer 4

Scrooge says in Stave 3,” Tonight if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it,”

Question 5

How has Dickens presented change in Scrooge?

Answer 5

Scrooge says in Stave 3,”tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”

Question 6

How has Dickens presented change in Scrooge?

Answer 6

The narrator says in Stave 3,”Scrooge bent before the Ghost’s rebuke, and trembling, cast his eyes upon the ground.’”

Question 7

How has Dickens presented change in Scrooge?

Answer 7

The narrator says in Stave 3,”The ghost was greatly pleased to find him in this mood, and looked upon him with such favour that he begged like a boy to be allowed to stay until the guests departed.”

Question 8

How has Dickens presented the supernatural as powerful?

Answer 8

The narrator says in Stave 1,”At this the Spirit raised such as frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling sound, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair,”

Question 9

How has Dickens presented the supernatural as powerful?

Answer 9

The narrator says in Stave 1,”for the spectre’s voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones.”

Question 10

How has Dickens presented the supernatural as powerful?

Answer 10

The narrator says in Stave 1,”He became sensible of confused sounds in the air: incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret”

Question 11

How has Dickens presented the supernatural as powerful?

Answer 11

The narrator says in Stave 1,”The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went,”

Question 12

How has Dickens presented the supernatural as powerful?

Answer 12

The narrator says in Stave 2,”and what was light one instant at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness.”

Question 13

How has Dickens presented the supernatural as powerful?

Answer 13

The narrator in Stave 2,”As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall, and stood upon an open country road,”

Question 14

How has Dickens presented the supernatural as powerful?

Answer 14

The narrator says in Stave 2,” But the relentless ghost pinioned him in both his arms, and forced him to observe what happened next,”

Question 15

How has Dickens presented the supernatural as powerful?

Answer 15

The narrator says in Stave 3,”he shed a few drops of water on them from it, and their good-humour was restored directly”

Question 16

How has Dickens presented the supernatural as powerful?

Answer 16

The narrator says in Stave 3,” and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit’s dwellings with the sprinkling of his torch,”

Question 17

How has Dickens presented the mistreatment of the poor and ideas about poverty?

Answer 17

Scrooge says in Stave ,” I can’t afford to make idle people merry,”

Question 18

How has Dickens presented the mistreatment of the poor and ideas about poverty?

Answer 18

Scrooge says in Stave 1,”“If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”

Question 19

How has Dickens presented the mistreatment of the poor and ideas about poverty?

Answer 19

The narrator says in Stave 2,” brave in ribbons,” and wearing a “twice-turned down,” for Mrs Cratchits clothes.

Question 20

How has Dickens presented the mistreatment of the poor and ideas about poverty?

Answer 20

The narrator says in Stave 2,”nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family,”

Question 21

How has Dickens presented the mistreatment of the poor and ideas about poverty?

Answer 21

The narrator says in Stave 3,”two children, wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable,”

Question 22

How has Dickens presented greed for money?

Answer 22

The narrator says in Stave 1,”Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room,”

Question 23

How has Dickens presented greed for money?

Answer 23

Scrooge says in Stave 1,”I help support the establishments I have mentioned - they cost enough,”

Question 24

How has Dickens presented greed for money?

Answer 24

The narrator says in Stave 2,”His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years: but it had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice,”

Question 25

How has Dickens presented greed for money?

Answer 25

Belle says in Stave 2,”But if you were free today, tomorrow, yesterday can even I believe you would choose a dower less girl,”

Question 26

How has Dickens presented greed for money?

Answer 26

Mrs Cratchit says in Stave 3,”I’d give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he’d have a good appetite for it,”

Question 27

How has Dickens presented greed for money?

Answer 27

Fred says in Stave 3,”He hasn’t the satisfaction of thinking -that he is going to make US comfortable with it,”