A Christmas Carol Quiz staves 1-3

What is the first thing you need to know in A Christmas Carol?

• Scrooge is mean
• Marley and Scrooge were friends
• Marley is dead
• Scrooge has a nephew

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Which of these is false?

• Scrooge cried when Marley died.
• Scrooge was Marley's only friend.
• Scrooge and Marley were business partners.
• Scrooge worked on the day of Marley's funeral.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the name of Scrooge's long-suffering employee? (not his dead business partner)

• Jacob Marley

• Bob Cratchit

• Charles Dickens

• William Poorfellow

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Who comes to tell Scrooge "Merry Christmas?"

• his nephew
• a random stranger
• his clerk
• his son

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

After Fred left his uncle’s office, two gentlemen came to _______.

• Pick up some work Scrooge had done for them

• Deliver a new desk

• Collect money for the poor

• Invite Scrooge to a political meeting

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What is Scrooge's response to the 2 gentlemen?

• He hits them with a ruler

• He donates money to the poor.

• He opens a trap door and they fall into a pit full of alligators.

• He tells them to put the poor into prisons and workhouses.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Marley's ghost comes to

• warn Scrooge
• punish Scrooge
• frighten Scrooge
• none of the above

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The lesson to be learned from Marley's ghost is that

• money is evil
• money causes people to become greedy
• caring for people is more important than making money
• eating bad food will cause you to see ghosts

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Marley's ghost tells Scrooge that

• he will soon die

• he will be visited by 3 more spirits

• he should lock his doors

• Marley will be coming back soon

What is Marley carrying?

• food that he can never enjoy

• a chain made of the sins of his life

• a book listing the wrongs he committed in life

• a knife that constantly cuts and torments him