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WorksheetsA Christmas Carol - Stave 2 (Multiple Choice)
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 26mins
What time was the first spirit supposed to arrive?
11:00pm
12:00am
1:00am
2:00am
Why does the spirit carry a cap?
because it is cold
because it is young
to cover the light that glows from its head
to cover his face so Scrooge can't see his age
How is Scrooge able to fly?
The spirit sprinkles fairy dust on him.
The spirit closes Scrooge's eye.
The spirit touches Scrooge's heart.
The spirit lets Scrooge wear his cap.
In the first scene from the past, why is Ebenezer Scrooge all alone?
because everyone else left to go home for the Christmas holidays
because everyone is playing tag and he does not want to join in
because he is an orphan and doesn't have a home yet
because he got into a fight with his father who left him there
What good news does Fan bring to Ebenezer?
He is no longer an orphan, and can go home with her.
She will teach him to play tag so he can make new friends.
Father is kinder now, so he can go home with her.
Father is still angry about the fight, but he can come home for New Year's Day.
What sad news did Ebenezer share with the spirit?
Fan died young and is the mother of his nephew, Fred.
Fan wanted to be a school teacher, but their father wouldn't let her.
Fan died before she had the chance to have any children.
Fan is still angry with him for not going home with her for Christmas.
Which line BEST shows that the rising action is still taking place in Stave 2, and Scrooge is beginning to realize his mistake?
"There's a parrot!" cried Scrooge.
"There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should have given him something, that's all."
It opened; and a little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting in and putting her arms around his neck..."
"I have come to bring you home dear brother!" said the child, clapping her tiny hands and bending down to laugh."
Scrooge works as an "apprentice" for Mr. Fezziwig. What is an apprentice?
Someone who works with money; a bank position
Someone who works for low wages to learn a trade
Someone who stays after work to set up for activities
Someone who has to sleep at their place of business
What is the spirit referring to when he says, "He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three or four perhaps?"
The tuition Scrooge's father paid for his schooling.
The amount of money Scrooge has in the bank.
The amount of money it cost Fezziwig to put on the party for his employees.
The amount that Scrooge paid for Belle's engagement ring.
Why does Scrooge have a thought about his own clerk after seeing Fezziwig?
He remembers how nice it was to work for someone so kind, and realized he was pretty awful to his own clerk.
He wishes that Fezziwig wouldn't have spent so much money on such a frivolous party.
He realizes that money is best spent at Christmas time alone.
Why did Scrooge get so sad & upset when he saw the vision of Belle with her husband and family?
because children screaming gets on his nerves
because Belle promised that she would never marry another
because he realized this could have been his family, but he gave her up
because he was tired of seeing visions and just wanted to go to bed
What did Dickens mean when he said that every child in the house was "conducting itself like forty"?
Since Belle was teaching the children so much, it seemed like a classroom.
Since all the children were in high spirits and having a good time, it seemed like there were forty children in the house
Since Belle had forty children, it was pretty noisy in the house
Since the children loved their Christmas presents so much, it seemed as if they were given forty presents
"The noise in the room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count..."
angry & upset
calm & bright
rowdy & excited
restrained
What does Belle BEST symbolize?
a lost opportunity
a true friend
an intelligent person
a humorous day
Read this quote from A Christmas Carol. "The sound resounded like thunder."
What figurative language is being used here?
onomatopeia
personification
simile
alliteration
Why did Scrooge seize the spirit's cap and push it over its head?
The visions were upsetting him so much that he didn't want to see them anymore.
The glare from the spirit's head was so bright that it was giving Scrooge a headache.
Scrooge was angry because the spirit was making fun of him.
Scrooge got angry because the spirit wouldn't show him any more visions about school.
Why can't Scrooge completely block out the light?
because the spirit is too quick for him
because you can't change the past, only the future
because he fell asleep before the spirit left
because you can never tell who you are going to run into
