WorksheetsA Christmas Carol Semester Test Review
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 20mins
What is the setting of A Christmas Carol?
Christmas day 1945
Christmas Eve, early 1800s
Christmas Eve, early 2000s
7 years ago, London
What is the first fact we discover about Jacob Marley
He is dead.
He is greedy.
He is a ghost.
He is Scrooge's only friend
What does the author mean when he writes about Scrooge, "The cold within him froze his old features... he carried his own low temperature always about him; he iced his office in the dog days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas"?
He is a happy person.
He is kind to everyone and very caring.
He is a rude person and his personality is cold.
He is annoyed by everything.
How does Scrooge feel about the fact that people avoid him on the streets, beggars won't ask him for money, children won't ask of him the time, no one will ask him for directions, and even seeing-eye dogs take blind men out of his path?
This upsets him because he does care what people think.
He loves it because he doesn't like people.
He hates that no one will talk to him.
He doesn't understand why people won't greet him or ask him for money.
Why does Scrooge threaten to beat the young caroler outside his door?
He is annoyed.
It upsets him.
He loves hearing people sing.
He hates Christmas.
What "unfair" request does Scrooge's clerk make of his boss?
To have a week's vacation
Invites him over for Christmas
Get a day's pay for no work
Offers to visit him on Christmas Day
What does Scrooge see when he looks at the doorknocker on his front door?
Jacob Marley's face
Lion
Nothing
Bob Cratchit's face
What is the purpose of Marley's visit?
To scare Scrooge
To warn Scrooge
He has no purpose
To tell Scrooge about his afterlife
Who is the first of the three Christmas spirits who visits Scrooge?
Jacob Marley
Ghost of Christmas Present
Ghost of Christmas Past
Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Who is the solitary boy left at the school?
Fred
Bob
Ali Babi
Scrooge
The only member of Scrooge's family Scrooge gets along with is whom?
Father
Mother
Brother
Sister
What happened to Scrooge's sister?
She ran away
She died
She has nothing to do with Scrooge
She went missing
When Scrooge sees Belle's family, he is more disturbed and upset than at any of the rest of what he has seen in this stave. Why does he find this happy family so upsetting?
It could have all been his.
He hates everything to do with family.
He doesn't understand why the ghost brought him here.
He was not upset.
What does the light coming from the head of the Ghost of Christmas Past symbolize?
Energy
Christmas
Hope
Memory
The ghosts that visit Scrooge are regularly going to use Scrooge's own words against him. Is this an example of foreshadowing? Why or why not?
No, they don't use his words against him.
No, they do not tell what is going to happen within the first stave.
Yes, because Scrooge can't deny it if he said it and the ghosts use his words to predict where they take him.
Yes, because he dies in the end.
Why is Ebenezer Scrooge such a miserable person? Support your idea.
He is not miserable.
He is unselfish and kind.
He is greedy and blames everything on other people.
He has no feelings.
How does Scrooge know he should open the door and enter the other room?
The light coming from under the door and the voice calls to him.
He doesn't go into the other room.
He hears Christmas music coming from behind the door.
He just has a gut feeling it is what he is supposed to do.
How are all of the objects Scrooge sees in the room (holly, ivy, mistletoe, roaring fire, turkeys, meats, wreaths, desserts, bowls of punch) related?
Symbols of Christmas
They all involve money
All have to do with Scrooge
They are not related
What effect did the Ghost of Christmas Present's torch have on those he sprinkled its droppings on?
Joy
Kindness
Nothing
Money
What do the youngest Cratchits want Martha to do just after she arrives?
Eat
Read them a story
Cook
Hide
Why do the youngest Cratchits cram spoons into their mouths after they finish setting the table?
To keep from asking for goose before their turn
They didn't cram spoons in their mouths.
Because they were hungry.
They thought it was funny.
Why does the Ghost of Christmas Present say, when speaking of Tiny Tim, "If he be like to die, then he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population"?
Repeated what Scrooge said so he could remember how horrible it was.
To say he thinks Tiny Tim should die.
So Scrooge can understand Christmas.
He wants to scare Scrooge.
Why does Fred, Scrooge's nephew, pity Scrooge?
He is so rich.
Because he is a mean and selfish person and has no one.
He is a great person and is always so kind.
He doesn't pity him. He just doesn't like him.
Why does the Ghost of Christmas Present grow "older, clearly older" before Scrooge's eyes?
He is becoming invisible.
To show that time is short. Old age and death are close at hand for Scrooge.
Scrooge is slowly losing his mind and it isn't actually happening at all.
The ghost is doing this to harm Scrooge and be cruel.
What is one reason the dead man's business associates will go to his funeral?
They won't go for any reason.
Because they have too.
If lunch is provided
To see old Scrooge one last time
What does the author mean when he says, "[Scrooge] had made a point always of standing in their esteem- in a business point of view, that is, strictly in a business point of view"?
He viewed them as family.
He loved each one of them and were the best of friends.
He knew them only in business and not personally.
They were all business partners.
Why does the Spirit "attach importance to [a conversation] apparently so trivial" (that is, why is it interesting/important that the conversation is so short?)
It was hard for them to talk about because they were so upset.
Not much to talk about
He was so important to them.
The gentlemen missed Scrooge dearly.
Why do you think Scrooge refuses to recognize that the man being discussed in the future is him?
In denial, doesn't want to think that is all people think of him.
He doesn't care who he is in the future.
He is scared.
He refuses to think about the future at all.
How does the treatment of Scrooge's property and body after his death by the undertaker's man, the laundress, and the charwoman (maid) reflect how Scrooge lived his life?
Scrooge treated them with respect and kindness.
Scrooge made no effort to show and emotion or feeling toward any person.
Scrooge never thought to tell them how he felt or cared about them.
They did not touch Scrooge's property or body after his death.
What is the emotion Caroline and her family (NOT the Cratchits) feel when they learn Scrooge is dead?
Angry
Sad
Pleasure
Joy
Why do Caroline and her family feel this way about Scrooge's death?
They hated him.
He was a bad neighbor.
They are in debt and now have time to pay it off.
They are in his will and will receive money.
What event has transpired in the Cratchit house?
Bob was fired.
Tiny Tim has died.
Martha is getting married.
Their house burned down.
What are the words the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come points at which make Scrooge so afraid?
Ebenezer Scrooge
Bob Cratchit
Death
Your time is running out.
What are some possible reasons Dickens chose to have the Spirit of the Future share some features with the Grim Reaper?
To show Scrooge how close death is.
To scare Scrooge
He does not look like the Grim Reaper
No reason he just likes that character.
What about this bleak future gives Scrooge hope?
He might still have time to fix it.
There is no hope.
He loves his family.
He plans to change careers.
What suggests to Scrooge that the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come feels sorry for him?
The Ghost starts to cry.
The Ghost's hand starts to shake.
The Ghost starts to disappear.
Nothing
Why was Scrooge so surprised to find his bed curtains still on this bed? Why did Scrooge think his bed curtains had been torn down?
He tore them down before the 2nd ghost.
He didn't have bed curtains.
Marley's ghost stole them.
They disappeared before the ghost came.
Why is Scrooge so interested/in love with the doorknocker?
It is finally clean.
It is what started his journey.
He hates it.
Scrooge collects doorknockers.
What happened to Scrooge in the years to come after his experience?
He died.
He didn't change at all.
He spread Christmas cheer all throughout the years to come.
He was happy on Christmas, but was still the same old Scrooge the rest of the year.
