A Christmas Carol

Question 1

Responsibility - Malthusianism

Answer 1

They had better [die] and decrease the surplus population

Question 2

Responsibility - Marley

Answer 2

I wear the chain I forged in life

Question 3

Responsibility - Fezziwig’s use

Answer 3

power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil

Question 4

Responsibility - Tiny Tim’s future

Answer 4

If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die

Question 5

Responsibility - writing metaphor

Answer 5

written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased

Question 6

Responsibility - Scrooge and Tiny Tim

Answer 6

To Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father

Question 7

Responsibility - Marley’s business

Answer 7

Mankind was my business

Question 8

Responsibility - Question about poor

Answer 8

Are there no prison?

Question 9

Poverty - clerk’s fire

Answer 9

clerk’s fire […] looked like one coal, But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his room

Question 10

Poverty - Scrooge selfish

Answer 10

I can’t afford to make idle people merry

Question 11

Poverty - blaming Spirit

Answer 11

You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day

Question 12

Poverty - Mrs Cratchit

Answer 12

dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for six pence

Question 13

Poverty - personification of food

Answer 13

chestnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked nosily

Question 14

Poverty - Ignorance and Want

Answer 14

Yellow, meagre, ragged, scrowling, wolfish

Question 15

Poverty - obscure part…

Answer 15

obscure part of the town […] Scrooge had never penetrated before

Question 16

Isolation - simile at the start

Answer 16

as solitary as an oyster

Question 17

Isolation - childhood

Answer 17

A solitary child, neglected by his friends

Question 18

Isolation - Fred on about Scrooge’s rejection

Answer 18

He loses some pleasant memories

Question 19

Isolation - who …?

Answer 19

who suffers by his ill whims?

Question 20

Greed - simile at the start

Answer 20

Hard and sharp as flint

Question 21

Greed - Scrooge on about Christmas

Answer 21

poor excuse of picking a man’s pocket

Question 22

Greed - Belle argued with Scrooge

Answer 22

What Idol has displaced you? […] A golden one

Question 23

Greed - funeral

Answer 23

I don’t mind going if lunch is provided

Question 24

Transformation - Scrooge willing to learn

Answer 24

if you aught to teach me, let me profit by it

Question 25

Transformation - similes at the end

Answer 25

I am as light as a feather. I am as happy as an angel. I am as merry as a schoolboy.

Question 26

Transformation - cyclical contrast of weather

Answer 26

foggy, withal vs No fog, no mist; clear, bright

Question 27

Christmas - Fred's speech

Answer 27

a kind, forgiving, charitable time

Question 28

Christmas Spirit - Fezziwig

Answer 28

The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it costs a fortune

Question 29

Poverty - Cratchits' dinner

Answer 29

Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family

Question 30

Christmas Spirit - Tiny Tim

Answer 30

God bless us

Question 31

Christmas Spirit - Ghost of Christmas Present

Answer 31

a jolly Giant, glorious to see, who bore a glowing torch

Question 32

Poverty - poor going to bakery

Answer 32

innumerable people emerged from bye-streets, lanes, nameless turnings

Question 33

When was it set?

Answer 33

1843, after Industrial Revolution

Question 34

Transformation - Scrooge's laugh

Answer 34

for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh

Question 35

Transformation - cyclical attitude to Christmas

Answer 35

Bah... Humburg! vs Merry Christmas!

Question 36

Fred - against winter

Answer 36

He has so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost

Question 37

Fred - not greedy

Answer 37

though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has me done good

Question 38

Fred - not angry about Scrooge

Answer 38

left the room without an angry word, notwithstanding

Question 39

Fred - welcome Scrooge

Answer 39

Why bless my soul! [...] It's a mercy he didn't shake his arm off.

Question 40

Transformation - Scrooge treating Bob kindly

Answer 40

I'll raise your salary [...] Make up the fires and buy another coal-scuttle

Question 41

Change - not believe in Marley's Ghost

Answer 41

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato

Question 42

Change - changed by Marley

Answer 42

tried to say 'Humburg' but stopped at the first syllabe

Question 43

Change - want to escape his past

Answer 43

seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head

Question 44

Change - leave but learn lesson

Answer 44

In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson, trust me

Question 45

Change - doesn't know the purpose of the Spirit

Answer 45

Why do you delight to torture me?

Question 46

Change - remember all lessons

Answer 46

I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The spirits of All Three shall strive within me.

Question 47

Change - city know his change

Answer 47

as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, borough, in the good old world

Question 48

Family - Scrooge wants Fred to go away

Answer 48

I want nothing from you; I ask nothing from you; why cannot we be friends?

Question 49

Family - Little Fan

Answer 49

Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home's like Heaven

Question 50

Family - Cratchits struggling but still happy

Answer 50

They were not a handsome family; they were not well-dressed; thier shoes were far from being water-proof [...] But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another

Question 51

Family - Bob crying

Answer 51

My little, little child!

Question 52

Family - Scrooge engaged in family

Answer 52

Wonderful party, wonder games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness

Question 53

Family - Scrooge not in family

Answer 53

in the dark empty house, with not a man, a woman, or a child, to say that he was kind