A Christmas Carol - Scrooge

What period was 'A Christmas Carol' written and set?

• Edwardian

• Elizabethan

• Victorian

• Tudor

Who wrote 'A Christmas Carol'?

• William Shakespeare

• Charles Dickens

• Charles Dickens and Lord Byron

• Lord Byron

What are some of the main themes of 'A Christmas Carol'? Select all that you think apply.

• Poverty

• Isolation

• Social Inequality

• Injustice

• Love and romance

Scrooge is a miser who chooses to live a lonely existence. His self-inflicted loneliness is illustrated through what examples? Select all you think apply.

• Scrooge is left alone at school when he is a child

• Scrooge will not heat his office sufficiently, and rations the coal he allows Bob Cratchit

• Scrooge never married, and neglected his fiancé who felt he loved gold more

• Fred attempts to have a friendship with his uncle, but Scrooge rebuffs his kindness

Scrooge’s visit from the first spirit shows him the Christmases that have past. Select the more accurate description of the visit.

• The Spirit shows Scrooge his old school and Scrooge recalls happy memories of the books he read as a child. This reveals a more imaginative time in his childhood, and foreshadows his late conversion, as it demonstrates an ability to be a kinder and more imaginative person who enjoys life.

• The Spirit shows Scrooge his old school and Scrooge recalls his terrible memories of stories he read as a child. These stories made him most unhappy, and remind him of the sad times he spent reading books as no one liked him and it was the only company he had.

Scrooge’s visit from the second Spirit he is shown images of Christmas present. Match the correct structural feature to the definition.

• The voice of an all seeing and all knowing story teller who gives opinions

• Dialogue

• A series of little scenes

• Vignette

• When different people speak

• Intrusive narrator

The final Spirit visits Scrooge. What Quotation best exemplifies Scrooge's fear that he will not be able to have a chance to redeem himself?

• Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life!

• No, Spirit! Oh no, no!

• Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?

• For the first time the hand appeared to shake.

On Christmas morning Scrooge awakes to find what has happened to his room?

• His bedroom has been changed- it is now covered in holly and berries

• His bedroom was exactly the same as before he went to bed.

Dickens includes the following aspects of the Victorian Gothic Ghost Story?

• The ghosts all have horrifying aspects to their appearance

• Scrooge is himself revealed to be a ghost at the end

• It mixes a modern setting with supernatural events

• There are four ghosts in total that visit Scrooge.

Select the following historical events that influenced Charles Dickens to write his novel:

• The Poor Law

• Abolition of workhouses

• Charles Dickens own childhood experience of poverty

• Corporal punishment for school children