Marley’s Ghost Quiz - A Christmas Carol

What does this quote mean: “Marley was dead: to begin with”

• Dickens makes absolutely sure that the reader realises there is something of the supernatural, as the Victorians were scared of it, and Dickens wanted to scare them into reform.

• Everything is fine

• Scrooge doesn’t care about Marley

Who was Marley to Scrooge?

“[Scrooge's chain] was full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have laboured on it since. It is a ponderous chain.“ What does this mean?

• Scrooge is a sinner

• Scrooge is kind

• Scrooge is greedy

• Marley has been helping Scrooge ever since he died

“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?” What does this symbolise?

• His kindness in life

• His sins in life

• His will in life

• His love in life

“How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day.” It was not an agreeable idea. Scrooge shivered, and wiped the perspiration from his brow. “That is no light part of my penance,” pursued the Ghost. “I am here to-night to warn you that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my __________, Ebenezer.”