Key Quotes

Question 1

“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge… a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”

Answer 1

Stave 1

Question 2

“Hard as sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret and self-contained, and as solitary as an oyster”

Answer 2

Stave 1, similies

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Stave 1

Scrooge says this to the charity men about ‘the poor’

Question 4

“Mankind was my business.”

Answer 4

Stave 1, Marleys ghost to scrooge

Question 5

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both…”

Answer 5

Stave 3, Ghost of Christmas Present to Scrooge

Question 6

“Merry Christmas Uncle”

Answer 6

Fred talking to scrooge, Stave 1… Shows the contrast of scrooge and him at this point, reflects what scrooge is going to turn into

Question 7

“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice. . . “Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”

Answer 7

Stave 1

Oxymoron

Question 8

“Bah, Humbug”

Answer 8

Stave 1, shows scrooge resentment to others

Question 9

“The founder of the feat” (toasting to scrooge)

Answer 9

Stave 1

He is a good-natured man… shows the kindness of the poor

Question 10

I wear the chain i forged in life”

Answer 10

Stave 1

Question 11

“Marley was dead: to begin with”

Answer 11

Stave 1

Suspense

Question 12

“Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, “My dear Scrooge, how are you.”

Answer 12

Stave 1

Shows what scrooge was like, creating a resentment

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Stave 2

Start of the transformation, shows his care for others