WorksheetsAct I Test Christmas Carol
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
1. When does the action of Act 1 take place?
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the morning of the day after Christmas
Christmas Eve and the morning of the day after Christmas
2. Who is Marley?
Scrooge's nephew
Scrooge's brother
Scrooge's partner
Scrooge's assistant
3. What do you learn about Scrooge's character from Marley in the first scene of Act 1?
He was a good friend to Marley.
He often gives money to beggars.
He is a solitary and miserable man.
Scrooge likes the dark winter days.
4. Why does Scrooge object to people enjoying Christmas?
He finds Christmas sad because Marley died on Christmas Eve.
He cares only for making money, and Christmas interrupts business.
He only pretends to dislike Christmas by saying, "Humbug".
He believes poor people should always be unhappy.
5. Which statement by Nephew best describes his own feelings about Christmas?
"Come! Dine with us tomorrow."
"Christmas 'has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket..."
"Christmas a 'humbug' Uncle? I'm sure you don't mean that."
"Christmas is when men and women seem to open their shut-up hearts freely..."
6. Cratchit says, “He’s getting on in years, and he’s alone.” What do you learn about Cratchit?
He fears Scrooge and plans to find a new job
He is poor and hopes Scrooge will pay him more
He understands Scrooge and feels sorry for him
7. According to the stage directions, what does Bob Cratchit do as the two Do-Gooders leave the offices?
He wishes them Merry Christmas
He asks them to "Shhhh"
He gets ready to go home.
He hands them a contribution to the poor.
8. When Scrooge goes to his rooms for the night, what action DOES NOT show he is uneasy?
He checks the back of the door knocker to see if Marley's pigtail is there.
He checks each room and looks under the sofa and table.
He fixes his evening gruel and eats it by the small fire.
He walks in a circle to check the pictures on the wall.
9. What does Scrooge value in life?
family and friendship
helping the poor
the environment
money
10. How did Marley get the chain he wears as a ghost?
He was given the chain by the ghost of Christmas past.
He created the chain by adding links each time he screamed.
He made the chain with his greedy choices in life.
He got the chain to scare Scrooge.
11. What do you learn about Scrooge as a boy during the visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past?
He was alone and lonely as a child.
He was a favorite of the schoolmaster
He cared only about money even then.
He was apprenticed as a young boy.
12. How does Scrooge respond to seeing his former boss Fezziwig's Christmas party?
He realizes he lavished too much praise on Fezziwig in the past.
He realizes how much he misses his sister Fan.
He wishes he had given some money to the boy singing carols.
He wishes he could say a word or two to his clerk Bob Cratchit.
13. How did Scrooge feel about his old boss Fezziwig?
He disliked him
He admired and respected him
He thought he was unfair and cruel
He missed him terribly.
14. What do you learn about why the woman left Scrooge?
He was obsessed with money
She feels they are too young to get married
He was in love with someone else
He calls her a fool and a mindless loon
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