Christmas Carol

Question 1

Stave 1

What quote shows that Scrooge is mean and stingy?

Answer 1

‘as hard and sharp as flint’

Question 2

Stave 1

What quote shows that Scrooge is as cold-blooded as a dead penguin?

Answer 2

‘External heat and cold had little
influence on Scrooge.’

Question 3

Stave 1

What quote shows that the walls cannot keep out the cold?

Answer 3

‘The fog came pouring in at every
chink and keyhole.’

Question 4

Stave 1

What quote shows that Scrooge believes poverty is a crime?

Answer 4

‘”Are there no prisons?” asked Scrooge.’

Question 5

What quote shows that Scrooge does not fit into the wider society?

Answer 5

‘Solitary as an oyster.’

Question 6

What quote shows that Scrooge does not treat his employee
well?

Answer 6

‘His clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond…was
copying letters…’

Question 7

Who is this quote describing :
‘He was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and
handsome; his eyes sparkled.’ ?

Answer 7

Fred

Question 8

What quote shows that Scrooge does not celebrate Xmas?

Answer 8

‘“I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I
can’t afford to make idle people merry.”’

Question 9

What quote shows that Scrooge cares nothing for the poor, and believes they are a waste of resources?

Answer 9

‘”If they would rather die… they had
better do it, and decrease the surplus
population.’”

Question 10

What quote shows that your actions during life affect your afterlife?

Answer 10

‘”I wear the chain I forged in life.”’

Question 11

What quote shows caring for others is more important than making money?

Answer 11

‘”Mankind was my business.”’

Question 12

What quote shows Scrooge does not believe in freedom?

Answer 12

‘At the ominous word liberality’, Scrooge frowned.’

Question 13

What quote shows that Scrooge has continued the bad ways of him and Marley to this very day

Answer 13

‘”Or would know,” pursued the Ghost,
“the weight and length of the strong coil you
bear yourself? It was full as heavy and as long
as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have
laboured on it, since. It is a ponderous
chain!”’

Question 14

What quote shows that Scrooge’s transformation has began?

Answer 14

‘He tried to say, ‘Humbug!’ but stopped at the first
syllable.’

Question 15

What quote shows that the ghost does not belong in this world?

Answer 15

‘Scrooge… found himself face to face with the
unearthly visitor…’

Question 16

Which ghost visits Scrooge in stave 2?

Answer 16

Christmas Past

Question 17

What quote shows that the ghost does not belong in this world?

Answer 17

‘Scrooge… found himself face to face with the
unearthly visitor…’

Question 18

What quote shows that the past informs the future?

Answer 18

‘It was a strange figure – like a child: yet not so like a
child as like an old man.’

Question 19

What quote shows that Scrooge is feeling sad for his old self?

Answer 19

‘”Your lip is trembling,” said the Ghost. “And what is
that upon your cheek?”’

Question 20

What quote shows that Scrooge has a human side?

Answer 20

‘Scrooge… wept to see his poor forgotten self as he
used to be.’

Question 21

What quote shows that Scrooge regrets the past lack of generosity

Answer 21

‘”There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my
door last night. I should like to have given him
something: that’s all.”’

Question 22

What quote shows that Scrooge will also be able to change?

Answer 22

‘”Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that
home’s like Heaven!’

Question 23

What quote shows that Scrooge finds money more important than love?

Answer 23

‘”Another idol has displaced me.”’

Question 24

What quote shows that Scrooge wants to escape his past?

Answer 24

‘He seized the extinguisher-cap, and by sudden
action pressed it down upon its head.’

Question 25

What quote shows that it is impossible to escape his past?

Answer 25

‘He could not hide the light: which streamed from under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground

Question 26

Which ghost visits Scrooge at the start of Stave 3?

Answer 26

Christmas present

Question 27

What quotation shows that the spirit is all-powerful?

Answer 27

'A strange voice called him by his name, and bade him enter'

Question 28

What quotation shows that the sprit is kind, inviting, and the present is fleeting?

Answer 28

‘”Come in! and know me better, man!”’

Question 29

What quotation shows that the spirit prioritises peace?

Answer 29

‘Girded round its middle was an antique scabbard; but no sword was in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten up with rust.’

Question 30

What quotation shows that Tiny Tim will die?

Answer 30

“’If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.’”

Question 31

What quotation shows that the ghost repeats Scrooge's cruel words?

Answer 31

‘”What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”’

Question 32

What quotation shows that even the most poor celebrate Christmas?

Answer 32

‘”A place where Miners live, who labour in the bowels of the earth,” returned the Spirit. “But, they know me. See!”’

Question 33

What quotation shows 2 children representing children in poverty?

Answer 33

‘They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish: but prostrate, too, in their humility.’

Question 34

Which spirit visits Scrooge at the start of Stave 4?

Answer 34

Christmas Yet to Come

Question 35

Which quote shows that the Spirit represents death and fear?

Answer 35

‘The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached.’

Question 36

Which quote shows that the spirit is a physical embodiment of death?

Answer 36

‘It seemed to scatter gloom and mystery.’

Question 37

Which quote shows that the spirit inspires fear in Scrooge?

Answer 37

‘There were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him.’

Question 38

Which quote shows that Scrooge is tight with his money?

Answer 38

‘”It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral.”’

Question 39

Which quote shows that Scrooge is realising the consequences of his actions?

Answer 39

‘”Spirit!” said Scrooge, shuddering from head to foot. “I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own.”’

Question 40

Which quote shows a metaphor for Scrooge's personality?

Answer 40

‘Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here.’

Question 41

Which quote shows Scrooge wants someone to care about his death

Answer 41

‘”Let me see some tenderness connected with a death.”’

Question 42

Which quote shows that Scrooge is desperate to change.

Answer 42

“’I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone.”’

Question 43

Which quote shows that Scrooge is overwhelmed by the change he has gone through?

Answer 43

‘He was so fluttered and so glowing with his good intentions, that his broken voice would scarcely answer to his call.’

Question 44

Which quote shows that Scrooge has been reborn with a happy, merry soul?

Answer 44

‘”I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy.”’

Question 45

Which quote reminds the reader of the Scrooge in Stave 1?

Answer 45

No fog, not mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold.’

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