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Question 1

Christmas spirit (2)

Answer 1

• the clerks fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal
• then ran home… as hard as he could pelt

Question 2

Family/isolation (7)

Answer 2

• home, for good and all. Home for ever and ever
• he was a second father
• it is I, your uncle scrooge. I have come to dinner
• the master passion, Gain, engrosses you
• a solitary child, neglected by his friends
• I wear the chains i forged in life
• uncle scrooge,, scrooges nephew,, scrooges niece

Question 3

Appearances

Answer 3

• yet to come: “deep-black garment” “mysterious presence” “pointed onward with its hand”

-past: “tunic of the purest white” “like a child” “like an old man” “bright clear jet of light”

• present: “jolly giant” “open hand” “glowing torch”

Question 4

Redemption (10)

Answer 4

• mankind was my business
• he did it all and infinitely more
• I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel
• squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
• no warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him
• cold, bleak, biting weather,, no fog no mist
• I should like to have given him something
• I will live in the past, the present and the future!
• every idiot who goes about with “merry Christmas” on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding
• covetous old sinner,, I’m quite a baby

Question 5

Poverty (11)

Answer 5

• Mr scrooge, the founder of the feast!
• what reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough
• they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population
• my little little child! ,, he broke down all at once
• nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family
• spirit… tell me if tiny Tim will live
• brave in ribbons
• wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable
• they are man’s,, this boy is ignorance, this girl is want
• he regarded it as the greatest success… since their marriage
• the clerks fire was so much smaller that it looked like one coal

Question 6

Generosity (9)

Answer 6

• Mr scrooge, the founder of the feast!
• shaking hands with every person individually
• a kind forgiving, charitable, pleasant time
• extraordinary kindness of scrooges nephew
• I am so sorry for him, I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried
• the happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune
• hard and sharp as flint
• I’ll send it to Bob cratchits
• I can’t afford to make idle people merry