WorksheetsA Christmas Carol - Stave 1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Dickens wrote and published A Christmas Carol in
1840 – the year Prince Albert imported several Christmas Trees from Coburg
1843 - the year the first commercially produced Christmas Cards were sent
1846 – the year the Christmas Cracker was invented
1848 – the year Once in Royal David’s City was composed
Where did Charles Dickens work when he was 12 years old?
In school where he tutored younger children
In a match factory where he dipped matches into dangerous white phosphorus
In a blacking factory where he stuck labels onto jars of shoe polish
On a street near Covent Garden where he sold vegetables from a cart
Marley was “as dead as”
A doormat
A coffin-nail
A toenail
A doornail
Who was Marley?
Scrooge’s father
Scrooge’s best friend
Scrooge’s business partner
Scrooge’s brother-in-law
Dickens describes Scrooge as a
A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
A coughing, wheezing, gasping, scratching, old invalid!
A greedy, malicious, jealous, acquisitive old wretch!
A usurious, penny-pinching, venal, niggardly old miser!
The weather that Christmas-Eve was
Cold and rainy
Cold and snowy
Cold but clear
Cold and foggy
Scrooge’s clerk, Bob Cratchit warms himself with
A warm fire
A hot water bottle
A candle
A great-coat
Why does Scrooge’s nephew, Fred, visit the office?
To wish Scrooge “Merry Christmas” and invite him to dinner
To annoy Scrooge while he’s working
To give Scrooge and Bob Cratchit Christmas presents
To announce his engagement
Workhouses were
Another name for factories
A euphemism for (a nice way of saying) prison
Places desperately poor people went to work in exchange for food and shelter
Family homes where the whole family worked together to produce homemade goods
The 1834 Poor Law Scrooge mentions was criticised because it was
Too lenient and encouraged people to be lazy
Too harsh and punished people for being poor
Too expensive and caused taxes to be raised too high
Too vague to be taken seriously
Thomas Malthus was
A philanthropist (charitable person) who raised lots of money for the poor
A politician who led a committee to amend the Poor Law
An economist who predicted the human population will increase at an unsustainable rate
A priest/ philosopher who wrote about the importance of charity at Christmas
Where does Scrooge first see Marley’s ghost?
Sitting in his old chair in the office
In the door knocker
On the wide staircase
In his bedroom
Scrooge’s first name is spelled
Ebinizer
Ebinezer
Ebenesar
Ebenezer
What is on the chain Marley carries
A heavy anchor
Cashboxes, keys, padlocks, legers, deeds and heavy purses
Treasure chests, gold coins, rings, rubies and pearls
Mementoes of all the people he wronged
What hilarious joke does Scrooge crack?
“Marley! I’ve been dying to see you”
“There’s more of gravy than the grave about you”
“Ha! You look as if you’ve seen a ghost”
“you’re more soupy than spooky to tell truth”
