Christmas Carol (mocks 1)

Question 1

Moments with the theme of family

Answer 1

Fred (stave 1- invite to dinner; stave 3- christmas party; stave 5- scrooge goes to party); cratchits (stave 3-christmas party; stave 4- Tiny tim’s death; stave 5- tt lives); Fanny (stave 2- visits scrooge at school); Belle (stave 2-why broke up with Scrooge; saw family he could’ve had); Miners (stave 3- celebrating Christmas)

Question 2

Moments with the,e of christmas/Christmas spirit

Answer 2

Presented throughout novella but focusing on (stave 1- Fred(invite scrooge to dinner); portly gentlemen (visit scrooge); choir boy); fezziwigs party (stave 2); stave 3 (ghost of christmas present; cratchit’s christmas party; miners; ship; lighthouse; Fred’s christmas party); stave 5 (turkey; religion; actions of scrooge, Tiny Tim)

Question 3

Moments with theme of friends

Answer 3

Marley(stave1); lighthouse(stave 3); fezziwig’s ball (stave 2); fred’s party (stave 3)

Question 4

Moments with theme of personal, moral, ethical choices

Answer 4

Fred(stave 1-invite; stave 5-scrooge comes to his dinner); Tiny Tim’s death; Scrooge (behavoir, treatment toother people, cratchits, caroline, grave, choir boy, belle); rag+ bone shop (stave 4); Jacob Marley (stave 1)

Question 5

Fred- stave1

Answer 5

‘Merry Christmas’ (‘Bah!’ ‘Humbug!’) , ‘gaily’, ‘Come! Dine with us tomorrow’ ‘a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time’

Question 6

Portly gentlemen- stave 1

Answer 6

‘make some slight provision for the poor and destitute’, ‘Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’, ‘endeavouring to raise a fund’

Question 7

Choir boy

Answer 7

“God bless you, merry gentleman!’ , ‘should like to have given him something’ ,‘siezed the ruler’, ‘singer fled in terror’

Question 8

Fred- stave 3

Answer 8

‘I am sorry for him’ (talking about scrooge), ‘Uncle Scrooge’, ‘Uncle Scro-o-o-o-oge!’ , ‘had some music’, ‘lace tucker’, ‘blind-man’s buff’ game ‘Yes and No’ ‘rather a disagreeable animal’. Scrooge ‘begged like a boy’ to stay. ‘Blessed in a laugh’

Question 9

Fred- stave 5

Answer 9

‘I have come to dinner’ , ‘Wonderful party’ (‘wonderful’ repeated) ‘won-der-ful’

Question 10

Importance of Fred

Answer 10

Used as a mouthpiece for Dicken’s messages : ‘a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time’; ‘wealth is of no use to him’, ‘consequence’-‘looses some pleasant moments’. We listen to him as he is friendly/likeable ‘gaily’; ‘I feel sorry for him’

Question 11

Fezziwig’s party

Answer 11

Stave 2

‘Mince pies’, ‘plenty of beer’, ‘dance’, ‘a positive light’-‘Fezziwig’s calves’, ‘forfeits’, ‘baker’, ‘milkmaid’

Question 12

Tiny tim

Answer 12

Stave 3(‘supported by an iron frame’, ‘little crutch’) stave 4 (died ‘he broke down all at once’, ‘little Bob’ Thy childish essence was from God’ ’) stave 5 (‘who did NOT die’, ‘God bless us. Every one’)

Question 13

Portly gentleman- stave 5

Answer 13

‘not a farthing less’, ‘pang across his heart’, ‘ a great many back-payments are included’

Question 14

Cratchit’s christmas party

Answer 14

Stave 3 ‘Eked out’, ‘threadbare clothes’, ‘nobody said’ ‘Tiny Tim’. ‘Grace was said’

Question 15

Marley

Answer 15

‘never painted out Old Marley’s name’, ‘I wear the chain I forged in life’, ‘Incessant torture of remorse’

Question 16

Lighthouse

Answer 16

Stave 3 ‘Joining their horny hands’ ‘had made a fire’ ‘wished each other a Merry Christmas’, ‘solitary lighthouse’

Question 17

Miners

Answer 17

Stave 3 ‘gaily in their holiday attire’, ‘labour in the bowels of the earth’, ‘singing’-‘vigour’

Question 18

Ship

Answer 18

Stave 3 ‘every man’ ‘hummed a Christmas tune’, ‘had a Christmas thought’

Question 19

Fanny

Answer 19

Stave 2 ‘You are quite a woman, little Fan’

Question 20

Belle

Answer 20

Stave 2 ‘golden idol’, ‘torture’(for scrooge to be reminded), ‘shouts of wonder and delight’, ‘I cannot bear it’ (Scrooge)

Question 21

Scrooge- stave 1

Answer 21

‘no warmth could warm’ ‘frosty rime’ ‘I wish to be left alone’ ‘Good Afternoon!’ (Dismissing fred), ‘seized the ruler’, ‘It’s not convenient’ (Bob asks for Christmas off)

Question 22

Cratchit’s view of scrooge

Answer 22

‘Ogre’

Question 23

Scrooge actions towards Cratchits stave 5

Answer 23

‘prize turkey’, ‘raise your salery’

Question 24

Caroline

Answer 24

Stave 4, ‘happier house’ after Scrooge’s death

Question 25

Scrooge’s grave

Answer 25

Stave 4 ‘worthy place’ ‘overrun by grass and weeds’, ‘growth of vegetation’s death’ ‘ choked up with too much burying’ ‘I am not the man I was’

Question 26

Rag + bone shop

Answer 26

Stave 4 Scrooge ‘wicked old screw’, ‘Bed-curtains’ ‘blankets’ ‘shirt’, ‘unwatched, unwept, uncared for’, themes: choices

Question 27

Turkey

Answer 27

Stave 5 ‘prize Turkey’, ‘I’ll give you half-a-crown’

Question 28

Religion stave 5

Answer 28

‘he went to church’, ‘churches ringing out’. Church stv 3 ‘the steeples called good people’

Question 29

Scrooge’s actions -stave 5

Answer 29

‘A merry Christmas’ ‘chuckle’ ‘raise your salery’ (‘strait-waistcoat’) ‘not a farthing less’ ‘I have come to dinner’. ‘I am as happy as an angel’ ‘i’m quite a baby’. ‘His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him’

Question 30

Marley’s ghost

Answer 30

- themes: friendship, choices -scares Scrooge ‘disturbed the very marrow in his bones’, ‘spectre’, ‘money-changing’, ‘Incessant torture of remorse’, ‘never painted out Old Marley’s name’, ‘I wear the chain I forged in life’

Question 31

Scrooge at start

Answer 31

- changes in novella, starts off as ‘gruff old bell’, ‘no warmth could warm’ ‘frosty rime’, ‘solitary as an oyster’, ‘fog and darkness thickened’, ‘Bah!’ ‘Humbug!’

Question 32

Scrooge’s house

Answer 32

‘Gloomy suite of rooms’, ‘handful of fuel’ weather in ‘mournful meditation’

Question 33

Themes of fred

Answer 33

-family, christmas spirit, choices (persistant), friends (fred’s party),

Question 34

Fezziwig theme

Answer 34

Chritsmas spirit, friends, choices(generosity)

Question 35

Ghost of christmas present

Answer 35

- pagan tradition, christmas spirit, ‘All of mankind’, ‘holly wreath’, ‘green robe’, ‘throne’ of food, ‘jolly giant’ ,’sprinkled incense’ (sprinkling christmas spirit). ‘Antique scabbard (case for sword)’ ‘but no sword’ (peacefullness)

Question 36

Want and Ignorance

Answer 36

Criticising poverty and education system, ‘All of mankind’ ‘Man’s’, ‘meagre, yellow,scowling’, ‘pinched and twisted’, ‘Doom’. Lying ‘prostrate’ (lying flat on ground head down)

Question 37

Ghost of christmas past

Answer 37

‘Like a child’, ‘voice was soft and gentle’, ‘from crown of its head sprung a bright clear jet of light’

Question 38

Ghost of Christmas yet to come/future

Answer 38

‘Solemn phantom’, ‘draped and hooded’ ‘kind hand trembled’(single sentence paragraph) ‘I am not the man I was’

Question 39

purpose of the novella

Answer 39

To promote social responsibilty in the 19th century, criticism of treatment of poor people(eg. Changes of marley’s ghost, created due to result of the negative attitude towards poor), importance of christianity in 19th century and throughout novella- dickens challenging notion of a good Christian promoting the idea of someone helping less fortunate

Question 40

When was christmas carol published

Answer 40

1843 - start of victorian era - hungry 40s- economic uncertainty

Question 41

What happened in same year as published

Answer 41

- first commercially produced chritmas card | - start of commercialisation of christmas

Question 42

Poor law intrdouced

Answer 42

1834 - no longer give financial support to able bodies0 forced to work - poor housed in workhouses, clothed an fed, had to work inside, families seperated

Question 43

Scrooge talking to ghost of christmas present

Answer 43

‘A tremendous family to provide for’ ‘more than eighteen hundred’

Question 44

Ultimatum given by ghost of christmas yet to come

Answer 44

‘If these shadows remain unaltered by the future the child will die

Question 45

Cratchits benefit for death of scrooge

Answer 45

Bob ‘extrardinary kindnes of Mr Scrooge’s nephew’