A Christmas Carol

Question 1

Scrooge

Answer 1

‘Covetous old sinner’
‘hard and sharp as flint’
‘father is much kinder than he used to be’
‘solitary as an oyster’
‘have they no refuge or resources?’
‘Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses’

Question 2

contrasting pathetic fallacy

Answer 2

‘cold bleak biting weather’
‘clear, bright, jovial’
‘golden sunlight’

Question 3

Marley’s Ghost

Answer 3

‘dead as a doornail’
‘Mankind was my business’
‘long, and wound about him like a tail’
‘i wear the chains i forged in life’
‘haunted by Three Spirits’
‘terrible sensation’

Question 4

GOC Past

Answer 4

‘purest white’ tunic
‘softening influence’
‘like a child’ ‘like and old man’
‘could not hide the light’

Question 5

GOC Present

Answer 5

‘open hand’
‘jolly giant’
‘Touch my robe’
‘antique scabbard’ ‘eaten up with rust’
‘They are Man’s!’

Question 6

GOC Yet to Come

Answer 6

‘slowly, gravely, silently’
‘feared the silent shape’
‘shrouded in a deep black garment’
‘upon his needs’ ‘a last prayer’

Question 7

Bob Cratchit

Answer 7

‘the Clerk’
‘he tried to warm himself at the candle’
‘founder of the feast!’
‘Tiny Tim rode upon his shoulder’

Question 8

Mrs Cratchit

Answer 8

‘piece of my mind for him to feast upon’
‘brave in ribbons’
‘twice-turned gown’
‘good wife’

Question 9

Tiny Tim

Answer 9

‘My little, little child’
‘tell me if Tiny Tim will live’
‘God Bless us, everyone!’

Question 10

Fred

Answer 10

‘all in a glow’
‘I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried’

Question 11

Ignorance and Want

Answer 11

‘yellow, meagre, wolfish’