WHO SAID IT?

Question 1

“My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?”

Answer 1

Nobody

Question 2

“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!”

Answer 2

Fred

Question 3

“Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough.”

Answer 3

Scrooge

Question 4

“I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”

Answer 4

Fred

Question 5

“The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?”

Answer 5

Scrooge

Question 6

“We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner,”

Answer 6

The charitable gentlemen

Question 7

“If quite convenient, sir.”

Answer 7

Bob Cratchit

Question 8

“Ask me who I was.”

Answer 8

Marley’s ghost

Question 9

“Without their visits, you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first to-morrow, when the bell tolls One.”

Answer 9

Marley’s ghost

Question 10

“Your lip is trembling and what is that upon your cheek?”

Answer 10

Ghost of Christmas Past

Question 11

“A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.”

Answer 11

Ghost of Christmas Past

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Scrooge

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Fran

Question 14

“He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.”

Answer 14

Scrooge

Question 15

“Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!”

Answer 15

Scrooge

Question 16

“You have never seen the like of me before!”

Answer 16

The Ghost of Christmas Present

Question 17

“To-night, if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.”

Answer 17

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Question 18

“God bless us every one!”

Answer 18

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Question 19

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

Answer 19

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Question 20

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

Answer 20

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Question 21

“Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”

Answer 21

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Question 22

“He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live!”

Answer 22

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Question 23

“Marley was dead to begin with.”

Answer 23

Narrator
Stave One
Ideas about: intrigue and the unexpected

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Narrator
Stave One
Ideas about: a biased narrator
Technique: hyperbole

Question 25

"Hard and sharp as flint"

Answer 25

Narrator Stave One Ideas about: Scrooge Technique: simile

Question 26

"Solitary as an oyster"

Answer 26

Narrator Stave One Ideas about Scrooge Technique: simile

Question 27

"I can't afford to make idle people merry"

Answer 27

Scrooge Stave One Ideas about: attitudes to the poor

Question 28

"Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"

Answer 28

Scrooge Stave One Ideas about: Cold logic/ attitudes to the poor

Question 29

"I wear the chain I forged in life"

Answer 29

Jacob Marley Stave One Ideas about: Consequences and fate

Question 30

"From the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light."

Answer 30

Stave Two | Ideas about: symbols (truth)

Question 31

"Your reclamation, then. Take heed!"

Answer 31

Ghost of Christmas Past Stave Two Ideas about: Redemption/ Transformation

Question 32

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

Answer 32

The Ghost of Christmas Past Stave Two Ideas about: Redemption/Transformation and emotion

Question 33

"A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."

Answer 33

The Ghost of Christmas Past Stave Two Ideas about: Childhood and determinism

Question 34

"He has the power to render us happy or unhappy [...] The happiness he gives is quite as much as if it cost a fortune."

Answer 34

Scrooge Stave Two Ideas about: Generosity and leadership

Question 35

"I have seen your nobler aspirations fall of one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you."

Answer 35

Belle Stave Two Ideas about: Obsession and avarice (extreme greed)

Question 36

"Remove me!" Scrooge exclaimed. "I cannot bear it!"

Answer 36

Scrooge Stave Two Ideas about: Truth and reflection

Question 37

"these young Cratchits danced about the table."

Answer 37

Stave Three | Ideas about: Childhood and determinism

Question 38

'With an interest he had never felt before..."No, no...Oh no, kind Spirit! Say he will be spared" '

Answer 38

Scrooge Stave Three Ideas about: Redemption/Transformation and empathy

Question 39

"If he die, he better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

Answer 39

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Question 40

"I am sorry for him [...] Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always."

Answer 40

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Question 41

"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both [...] They are Man's"

Answer 41

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Question 42

"Plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man"

Answer 42

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Question 43

"Avarice, hard dealing, griping cares? They have brought him to a rich end, truly!"

Answer 43

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Question 44

"The kind hand trembled."

Answer 44

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Question 45

"No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial...heavenly sky, sweet fresh air."

Answer 45

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Question 46

"I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy...I am as giddy as a drunken man"

Answer 46

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Question 47

"I don't know how long I have been among the Spirits. I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby."

Answer 47

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Question 48

Scrooge regarded everyone with a delighted smile."

Answer 48

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Question 49

"His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him."

Answer 49

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Question 50

"No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him."

Answer 50

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Question 51

"Open our shut up hearts freely"

Answer 51

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