A Christmas Carol

Question 1

5 quotes for Scrooge

Answer 1

.” Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses.”
.” I will honour christmas.”
. “Bah! Humbug”
. “decrease the surplus population.”
. “Spirit, tell me if Tiny Tim will live!”

Question 2

2 quotes for tiny Tim

Answer 2

.” God bless everyone.”
. “How did LITTLE Tim behave”

Question 3

2 quotes for jacob marley

Answer 3

.” I wear this chain I forged in life.”
.” Mankind was my business.”

Question 4

2 quotes for the ghost of christmas past

Answer 4

.” A solitary child.”
. “put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?” - Suggests Scrooge is rejecting the truth because of his materialism and focus on money. Rhetorical question.

Question 5

2 quotes for the ghost of christmas present

Answer 5

.”This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both.” ignorance = lack of knowledge want = extreme poverty or need. Beware them both suggests a rebellion.

.”Come in! and know me better, man!”

Question 6

2 quotes for the ghost of christmas yet to come

Answer 6

.”It is a fearful thing to see the future.”

. “The ghost pointed with an unmoved finger.”- suggests death is certain unless Scrooge changes his ways. Personification “pointed”. It is personification because the spirit isn’t actually human.

Question 7

2 quotes for Bob Cratchit

Answer 7

.”Mr. Scrooge, the founder of the feast!”( says this twice)
.”God bless us, every one!”

Question 8

1 quote mrs cratchit says

Answer 8

. “piece of my mind to feast upon”

Question 9

2 quotes Fred says

Answer 9

.”for I pity him.” - suggests Fred is feeling sympathy for Scrooge and wants to help him by inviting him over for dinner every year.
. “Merry Christmas, Uncle!” - almost ironic his mother also helped Scrooge like Fred is doing now. The writer uses the repetition of this to show how joyful Fred is

Question 10

2 quotes fan says

Answer 10

. “I have come to bring you home, dear brother!… Home, home, home!”
. “Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven!”
(This reveals a moment of hope and love in Scrooge’s otherwise lonely childhood.)

Question 11

One quote belle says to scrooge (Scrooge’s ex fiance)

Answer 11

. “Another idol has displaced me” “A golden one.”
( Money is more important to scrooge than she is)

Question 12

2 quotes for fezziwig

Answer 12

.” He has the power to render us happy or unhappy.”
. “The happiness…as if it cost a fortune.” - simile

Question 13

Extra quotes are…

Answer 13

“Solitary as an oyster.” - simile. Scrooge is emotionally shut like a shell