A Christmas Carol

Question 1

Whose face does Scrooge see on the door knocker?

Answer 1

Marley’s

Question 2

What does Marley warn Scrooge will happen if he doesn’t change his ways?

Answer 2

He would be wrapped in heavy chains that he ‘forged in life’

Question 3

What does the ghost of Christmas past show Scrooge?

Answer 3

-his younger self lonely at school
-his sister (fan) visiting him
-a party with fezziwig
-his fiancee belle breaking up with him
-belle and her own family

Question 4

Why did belle break of the engagement with Scrooge?

Answer 4

His obsession with money

Question 5

What does the ghost of Christmas present show Scrooge in stave 3?

Answer 5

-they visit the cart hit family and see their celebration
-visit Fred and his family -make fun of Scrooge
-2 starving children - ignorance + want

Question 6

What does Scrooge learn at the cratchits?

Answer 6

Tiny Tim is dying

Question 7

What are the 2 starving children called?

Answer 7

Ignorance and want

Question 8

What is people’s reactions to the death of the unknown man?

Answer 8

They don’t care and steal his belongings to sell

Question 9

What does the ghost of Christmas yet to come show Scrooge in stave 4?

Answer 9

-Shows Scrooge the reaction of people to his death (an unamed man)
-people stealing this belongings to sell
-a grave with scrooges’s name on it

Question 10

What does Scrooge promise at the end of stave 4?

Answer 10

He will honour Christmas and change his course of life

Question 11

What is Scrooge like in stave 5?

Answer 11

-completely changed
-celebrates Christmas
-buys the cratchits a huge turkey

Question 12

What happens to tiny Tim in the end?

Answer 12

He survives

Question 13

What does Scrooge give bob in stave 5?

Answer 13

A pay rise

Question 14

Who does Scrooge spend Christmas with in the end?

Answer 14

Fred and his family

Question 15

What does “nature was brewing on a larger scale”give an impression of?

Answer 15

That something big is about to happen

Question 16

What does the weather represent?

Answer 16

Scrooge’s personality

Question 17

What “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!” Show?

Answer 17

-Scrooge is being presented as rude and miserly
-dickens is allegorical of his past and all Victorian employers

Question 18

What does the quote “no wind that blew was bitter than he” show?

Answer 18

-Scrooge is presented as heartless and cold
-comparing him to the weather

Question 19

What does the quote “hard and sharp as flint” show?

Answer 19

-Scrooge is presented as hard headed and heartless
-Scrooge never uses his full emotional potential
-Scrooge is compared to stone

Question 20

What does the quote “solitary as an oyster” show?

Answer 20

-Scrooge doesn’t open up — hard outer shell and contains a pearl = potential
-he represents employers in industrial Britain — alone

Question 21

What language technique is “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!” ?

Answer 21

Asyndetic list

Question 22

What language technique is “solitary as an oyster”?

Answer 22

Simile

Question 23

What language technique is “hard and sharp as flint”?

Answer 23

Simile

Question 24

What language technique is “no wind that blew was bitter than he”?

Answer 24

Metaphor

Question 25

What does the quote “he was all in a glow” show?

Answer 25

-Fred is presented as the antithesis to Scrooge — he shines despite the fog -shows divide between rich and poor

Question 26

What language technique is “he was all in a glow”?

Answer 26

Metaphor

Question 27

What language technique is “darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it”?

Answer 27

Symbolism

Question 28

What does the quote “darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it” show?

Answer 28

-loneliness and isolation -Scrooge is shown as a miser who wont even spend money on his own comfort -money is the most important thing to scrooge

Question 29

What does the quote “I wear the chain I forged in life” show?

Answer 29

-the ghost of Marley is being punished for his behaviour— Marley is warning Scrooge -the chains represent marley’s guilt

Question 30

What language technique is “I wear the chain I forged in life”?

Answer 30

Metaphor

Question 31

What language technique is “mankind was his business”?

Answer 31

Metaphor

Question 32

What does the quote “mankind was his business” show?

Answer 32

-Marley expresses his guilt + regret about his treatment of people— he should of focused on people not money -dickens message— mankind is more important then money — criticising wealthy Victorian, employers of a lack of care.

Question 33

What language technique is “ like a child: yeah, not so like a child, as like an old man”?

Answer 33

Repetition Juxtaposition

Question 34

What does the quote “ like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old” show?

Answer 34

Ghost of Christmas past is the embodiment of memory. Scrooge (an old man) views himself as a child. Supernatural

Question 35

What does the quote” a solitary child neglected by” show?

Answer 35

Scrooge, as observing himself at Christmas time alone at school. Scrooge rejects society now because he was rejected as a child

Question 36

What does the quote” another idol has displace me… A golden one” show?

Answer 36

Bell releases Scrooge due to his love of money. Scrooge loves money above all else. Scrooge is a prisoner to a misely attitude

Question 37

What language language” another idol has displaced me… A golden one”?

Answer 37

Metaphor Colour symbolism

Question 38

What does the quote” laughed all over himself to his organ of benevolence” show?

Answer 38

Fuzzy wig is the antithesis of Scrooge. Joyful, character – linked to Fred. He’s a role model to Scrooge

Question 39

What language technique is” laugh all over himself to his organ of benevolence.”?

Answer 39

Metaphor

Question 40

What does the quote “a jolly giant, glorious to see” show?

Answer 40

-the ghost of Christmas present was portrayed as a solid figure embodying Christmas celebrations -dickens wants people to be more kind and open hearted

Question 41

What language technique is “good as gold”?

Answer 41

Simile

Question 42

What does the quote “good as gold” show?

Answer 42

-bob describes tiny Tim’s behaviour in church—positive -contrast to Scrooge’s behaviour -Scrooge + reader sympathise with Scrooge

Question 43

What language technique does “it might be a claw, for there flesh there is upon it” use?

Answer 43

Metaphor Allegory

Question 44

What does the quote “it might be a claw, for the flesh there is upon it” show?

Answer 44

-Scrooge is asking about ignorance and want -contrast to ghost of Christmas present -children described as animals — unhumanised

Question 45

What does the quote “the phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached” show?

Answer 45

-the spirit of Christmas yet to come continues the serious tone set by ignorance and want -contrast to ghost of Christmas present -supernatural

Question 46

What language technique is “the phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached”?

Answer 46

Asyndetic list

Question 47

What does the quote “yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish” show?

Answer 47

-ignorance and want are described as thin, undernourished, poor, dirty -children and dehumanised

Question 48

What language technique is used in “yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling,wolfish”?

Answer 48

Asyndetic list

Question 49

What language technique is used in “Scrooge was the ogre of the family”?

Answer 49

Metaphor

Question 50

What does the quote “Scrooge was the ogre of the family show”?

Answer 50

-mrs cratchit + children refuse to toast Scrooge -contrast— Scrooge will become tiny Tim’s father figure -Scrooge is unloved and seen as a monster

Question 51

What happened to dickens father when he was younger?

Answer 51

He was imprisoned for debt

Question 52

Where did dickens’ work and how old was he?

Answer 52

-a blacking factory -12

Question 53

What does the quote “i will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all year”?

Answer 53

-Scrooge has learnt his lesson -he is fully changed -contrast to “bah humbug”

Question 54

What is apathy?

Answer 54

Lacking care and empathy

Question 55

What is an antithesis?

Answer 55

The direct opposite

Question 56

What is a miser?

Answer 56

Someone who hoards money and never uses it

Question 57

What is an omniscient narrator?

Answer 57

Third person narrator who knows all the thought and feelings of the characters

Question 58

What is an omniscient intrusive narrator?

Answer 58

A narrator who reports on events in story and comments on characters

Question 59

What is the meaning of empathy?

Answer 59

Ability to understand an share in someone else’s feelings

Question 60

What does it mean to emphasise?

Answer 60

Share the feelings of another person

Question 61

What does benevolence mean?

Answer 61

Being well, kindness

Question 62

What does solitude mean?

Answer 62

The state of being alone

Question 63

What does avarice mean?

Answer 63

Greed

Question 64

What does the quote”father is much nicer than he used to be” show?

Answer 64

-suggests Scrooge’s father was abusive -Scrooge didn’t have a good childhood

Question 65

What does the quote “and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall” show?

Answer 65

Scrooge is the way he is because of his upbringing

Question 66

What does scarcity mean?

Answer 66

Opposite of plenty

Question 67

What is allegory?

Answer 67

A story with a deeper or hidden meaning

Question 68

What is a redemptive arc?

Answer 68

Development of a character in a story from a faulty character to an enlightened one