Christmas Carol

Question 1

Stave 1 describes Scrooge grindstone… sinner…

Answer 1

Ohh! But he was a tight fisted hand to the grindstone,Scrooge! a squeezing grasping clutching covetous old sinner!

Question 2

Stave 1 Scrooge is selfish the poor are lazy AFFORD

Answer 2

I don’t make merry at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merrry

Question 3

stave 3 prisons workhouses

Answer 3

“Are there no prisons”said the spirit turning on him for the last time with his own words.”are there no workhouses?”

Question 4

Stave 3 Malthus’s theory ghost repeats Scrooges words

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Stave 2 bell leaving Scrooge

Answer 5

Another idol has displaced me…a golden one

Question 6

Stave 2 the reason for scrooges greed and mistreatment

Answer 6

Father is so much kinder than he used to be, home is like heaven

Question 7

Stave 3 Scrooge cares for tiny Tim interested with his fate

Answer 7

“Spirit,” said Scrooge with an interest he had never felt before,”tell me if tiny Tim will live.”

Question 8

Stave 3 ignorance and want will lead to the collapse of society and violence

Answer 8

This boy is ignorance.this girl is want.Beware them both…but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is doom

Question 9

Stave 5 Scrooge has redeemed himself and has become a father to tiny Tim

Answer 9

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die he was a second father

Question 10

Stave 1 oxymoron oyster

Answer 10

Solitary as an oyster