A Christmas Carol Characters

1. On the Christmas Eve that Scrooge’s story began, the city was covered by

• a heavy snow that kept people home

• a dense fog that brought on early darkness

• a warm sun that brought a sense of merriment.

Which of the following was not true of Ebenezer Scrooge in the beginning? He...

• was well-respected as a businessman, but he had not made a lot of money

• was tight- fisted, solitary, and always carried his own low temperature about with him

• was happy with the fact that people did not speak to him and went out of their way to avoid him.

Jacob Marley had been

• the merchant who had occupied the shop next to Scrooge’s office

• Scrooge’s partner and his only friend

• a happy man who enjoyed people and the celebration of Christmas.

Jacob Marley had died

• the previous year while dining at a tavern with Scrooge

• two months before, following a long illness

• seven years ago on Christmas Eve.

Scrooge’s clerk Bob Cratchit didn’t have a warm fire because

• there was no stove in his area of the office

• Scrooge threatened to fire him if he put more coal on it

• there was no coal left and none could be bought on Christmas Eve.

What was Scrooge’s response when his nephew wished him a merry Christmas? He said,

• “Bah! Humbug!”

• “The day is not merry when one does not work,”

• “Wish your merriness upon someone who wants it!”

Scrooge said people who celebrated Christmas were fools because

• it didn’t make them any richer, they were a year older, and it did them no good

• it was much like the way they behaved when they fell in love

• Christmas was for children, not adults.

Scrooge

• asked his nephew to leave his office and stop his talk about Christmas,

• said Bob Cratchit would go home without pay for agreeing with his nephew’s notions of Christmas

• refused his nephew’s invitation to Christmas dinner.

When the gentlemen came into his office collecting for the needy, Scrooge said

• he supported the prisons and workhouses where they could go, or they could die to decrease the population

• his money prevented him from living in poverty because he didn’t give it away

• the poor and needy had never done anything for him.

Scrooge’s first encounter with Marley’s ghost was

• Marley’s voice whispering to him as he walked home from his solitary meal

• the appearance of Marley’s face in his door knocker

• a likeness of Marley’s face that appeared in the tower clock as it chimed the hour.