A Christmas Carol quotes

Question 1

This describes that he does not want to let go

Answer 1

‘he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’

Question 2

This describes the behaviour of scrooge and what he wants

Answer 2

‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner’

Question 3

This describes that he is very lonely

Answer 3

‘solitary as an oyster’

Question 4

This describes that he is cold and careless

Answer 4

‘hard and sharp as flint’

Question 5

This describes that he is as cold as the cold weather and shows that he has a mean personality

Answer 5

‘The cold within him froze his old features’

Question 6

This suggests that scrooge would always be cold even in a warm place

Answer 6

‘He carried his own low temperature always’

Question 7

This describes that his room is as cold as he is

Answer 7

‘he iced his office’

Question 8

This is a fairytale beginning which suggests that the bad things can turn into the good things

Answer 8

‘Once upon a time…’

Question 9

This suggests that scrooge does not like the poor

Answer 9

‘he might keep an eye on his clerk’

Question 10

This shows that scrooge is fire is small

Answer 10

‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked
like one coal’.

Question 11

He can not change his actions

Answer 11

‘He couldn’t replenish it’

Question 12

This suggests that he can only use it for himself and no one else

Answer 12

‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’

Question 13

A thick mist

Answer 13

‘The fog came pouring in’

Question 14

His eyes ……….

Answer 14

‘His eyes sparkled’

Question 15

Scrooges words

Answer 15

‘Bah humbug’

Question 16

The first words we hear from fred

Answer 16

‘A merry christmas uncle god save you cried a cheerful voice’

Question 17

Shows that Fred is light

Answer 17

‘He was all in a glow’

Question 18

Fred thinks that christmas will benefit him

Answer 18

‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’

Question 19

Scrooge asking about prisons

Answer 19

‘Are there prisons’

Question 20

This quote talks about how christmas is not about spending money but it is about a time of joy

Answer 20

‘We chooses this time because it is a time of all others when want is keenly felt, and abundant rejoices’

Question 21

What Fred has done him good

Answer 21

I belive it has done me good and will do me good

Question 22

What Fred thinks about his christmas humour

Answer 22

Ill keep my christmas humour to the last

Question 23

…….nothing

Answer 23

‘Nothing’

Question 24

Scrooge says the shocking quote in the book

Answer 24

If they rather die… they had better do it and decrease the surplus population

Question 25

Scrooge says its not my .....

Answer 25

Its not my business

Question 26

The fog getting thicker

Answer 26

Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so

Question 27

How extreme the wether is

Answer 27

The cold became intense

Question 28

Talks about how the poor are warming their hands on a great fire

Answer 28

Had lightened a great fire in a brazier round which a party ragged men and boys were gathered warming their hands and wrinkling their eyes before the blaze in rapture

Question 29

Scrooge talking about bob having a day off

Answer 29

'A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December!’

Question 30

This talks about how happy bob is having one day off every year

Answer 30

‘The clerk...went down a slide...and then ran home to Camden Town’.