A Christmas Carol Final Exam (2)

"If they would rather die ... they had better do it, and _________." - Scrooge

• clean up the streets

• stop wasting my time

• decrease the surplus population

• save me some money

What do Marley's chains symbolize?

• How much money he made when he was alive

• How many people he wronged with his bad business practices

• How many businesses he owned when he was alive

• His materialism and greed

What is the one condition Scrooge gave Cratchit in order to let him have Christmas Day off?

• Cratchit had to show up early for work the day after Christmas

• Cratchit had to come into work Christmas night

• Cratchit had to work the day after Christmas for free

• Cratchit had to find a replacement to work for him on Christmas

Why does the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come not have any visible physical features?

• The ghost represent death and death looks different to every person

• The lack of features symbols the lack of love in Scrooge's life

• It is symbolic of what is yet to come

• The future had not happened yet, so it is not possible to know what the future looks like

The Gentleman Visitor who comes to Scrooge's office wants Scrooge to

• remember his childhood
• go into business with him
• close his office for Christmas
• help the poor by donating money

What do we know about Scrooge's childhood?

• he was lonely
• he wasn't a very good reader
• he attended a very small school
• he had a bad relationship with his sister

Scrooge's main conflict throughout the play is an example of

• man versus man
• man versus self
• man versus nature
• man versus society

The main purpose of the first four paragraphs of Stave 1 is to make sure that we understand that...

• it was a very cold Christmas.

• Marley was absolutely, positively dead.

• Scrooge was a good businessman.

• Scrooge was cheap and stingy.

How does Scrooge's nephew feel about Christmas?

• “Don’t be cross, Uncle.”
• [Christmas is] a good time… when men and women seem to open their shut-up hearts freely.”
• “Don’t be angry, Uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow.”
• “I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”

Scrooge does not believe that the vision he sees is really Marley. How does he explain the vision?

• He says that he is seeing not Marley but a picture on the wall.

• He says that someone is trying to frighten him or fool him.

• He says that an undigested bit of food (bad food; food poisoning) has affected his senses.

• He says that someone who is dead could not appear before him.