Christmas Carol Review

1. What is the setting of “A Christmas Carol”?

• England

• 1843

• Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the morning after Christmas

• all of these

2. Which of these statements describes how aside is used in “A Christmas Carol”?

• Ebenezer Scrooge thinks aloud for the benefit of the audience.

• Bob Cratchit delivers a long speech that characterizes Scrooge.

• Jacob Marley speaks directly to the audience.

• none of these

3. Which excerpt below is an example of stage directions?

• [A PHANTOM, hooded, appears in dim light, D., opposite.]

• MARLEY: My name is Jacob Marley and I am dead.

• Various locations in and around the City of London, including Scrooge’s Chambers and Offices; the Cratchit Home; Fred’s Home; Scrooge’s School; Fezziwig’s Offices; Old Joe’s Hide-a-Way

• PRESENT: I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me.

Ebenezer Scrooge is characterized as being tightfisted and stingy. Which excerpt from the play below best supports this characterization of Scrooge?

• (MARLEY): He never painted out my name from the window. There it stands, on the window and above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley… He answers to both names. It’s all the same to him. And it’s cheaper than painting in a new sign, isn’t it?

• (MARLEY): Christmas Eve and Scrooge is busy in his counting-house. It is cold, bleak, biting weather outside: foggy withal: and, if you listen closely, you can hear the people in the court go wheezing up and down beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them…

• (NEPHEW): There are many things from which I have derived good, by which I have not profited, I daresay. Christmas among the rest. But I am sure that I always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round – as a good time: the only time I know of, when men and women seem to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

• (PORTLY MAN): At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute who suffer greatly at the present time.

5. Scrooge is disturbed by a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past. What type of conflict is this?

• man vs. nature

• man vs. himself

• man vs. society

• man vs. supernatural

7. What theme does Scrooge learn from the Ghost of Christmas Past?

• Family is more important than friends.

• A good employer treats his workers with kindness and respect.

• The poor cannot be blamed for their poverty.

• Some wounds can never heal.

8. Reread Act II, Scene 3. Which sentence below does not belong in an objective summary of the scene?

• The Ghost of Christmas Present brings Scrooge to watch the family of Bob Cratchit.

• Scrooge is touched by the genuine love shared among the Cratchits.

• Tiny Tim is a good son and does not deserve to die.

• Scrooge becomes concerned with the fate of Tiny Tim.

9. How is the Ghost of Christmas Future different from the Ghosts of Christmas Present and Christmas Past?

• Scrooge is not allowed a look at Future’s face.

• The Ghost of Christmas Future does not speak to Scrooge.

• The Ghost of Christmas Future seems unconcerned with Scrooge’s fate.

• . all of these

10. Which line from the play is spoken by Scrooge with a confident tone?

• I will live in the Past, in the Present, and in the Future! The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me!

• Spirit, this is a fearful place. In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson, trust me.

• Your hair has gone gray! Your skin, wrinkled! Are spirits’ lives so short?

• Spirit, dear Spirit, I am praying before you. Give me a sign that all is possible. Give me a sign that all hope for me is not lost.

Who is the main character of A Christmas Carol?

• Ebeneezer Scrooge
• Queen Victoria
• Tiny Tim
• Bruce Wayne

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