A Christmas Carol Stave 1 Review

In the first paragraph, Dickens tells us no less than four times that someone is dead. What is the last name of the person who is dead? (proper spelling counts)

Why does Dickens EMPHATICALLY bring up this person's death multiple times?

• Dickens liked to use repetition as a literary device.

• This character will visit later...as a ghost!

• It's a trick--the character is not really dead. He shows up later.

• Dickens was paid by the word and trying to increase his word count.

The following quote is about which character? "No warmth could warm, no wintery weather chill him." (type this character's last name; proper spelling counts)

Why does the author compare this character to cold weather?

• to show that the character's heart is frozen

• to emphasize that the story takes place at Christmas

• Charles Dickens was born in the winter (February)

• to emphasize that the character is old

What mood (feeling in the reader) does the following passage hope to set? "It was cold, bleak, biting weather, foggy withal."

• creepy

• joyful

• curious

• sad

A character that acts as a contrast to the main character is called what?

• a foil

• an antagonist

• a protagonist

• a plot twist

Who is Scrooge's foil?

• his nephew, Fred

• his employee, Bob Cratchit

• his dead partner, Jacob Marley

• the men who ask Scrooge to donate money to help the poor

What does the following quote say about Scrooge? “If they would rather die...they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

• he is misanthropic

• he is generous

• he is benevolent

• he is destitute

When Scrooge arrives at his front door, what does he see in the door knocker?

• Marley's face

• his own reflection

• a hearse

• balustrades

What life lesson does this excerpt hope to teach?
It is required of every man…that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.  It is doomed to wander through the world...and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness.

• People should strive to help others.

• People should save as much money as possible.

• People should travel for pleasure.

• People should walk for exercise and pleasure.