WorksheetsA Christmas Carol Stave 1
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 27mins
Multiple Answer: Who is Jacob Marley?
Scrooge's business partner
Scrooge's poor clerk
Scrooge's nephew
Scrooge's first ghostly visitor
Scrooge's visitor asking for donations for the poor
The London cold and fog
The smoke
The rain
The wind
Multiple Answer: Which of the following best describes the purpose of Scrooge's nephew's visit?
He has come to give his uncle the season's greeting.
He has come to invite Scrooge to Christmas dinner.
He has come to ask Scrooge for money.
He has come to pay a visit to Bob Crachit.
He has come to argue with Scrooge about Christmas.
When the narrator interacts with the reader throughout a piece of literature it is called an __________ _______________
pathetic fallacy
allusion narrator
intrusive narrator
omniscient narrator
One of the reasons Dickens wrote the novella is to show __________ which means being saved from sin.
remorse
forgiveness
redemption
allusion
What is the connotation of the following words/quote- "...a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner" (Dickens 2).
positive
redemptive
negative
neutral
When Dickens describes Scrooge through elements of weather, this literary device is called __________________.
metaphor
Pathetic Fallacy
personification
allusion
A common tradition in England in this time period was to do what on Christmas Eve?
Tell jokes
Read bible stories
Tell Ghost stories
Sing Christmas Carols
Scrooge equates wealth with happiness. Which quote shows this best?
"Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine" (Dickens 3).
"Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! (Dickens 2).
"What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough" (Dickens 3).
"And therefore, uncle,
though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe
that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!" (Dickens 4).
When Scrooge threatens the clerk's "situation" he means that he will
get a raise
give him no additional coal
not give him Christmas day off
lose his job
What is the "Bedlam" that Scrooge mentions in the quote, "I'll retire to Bedlam!" (Dickens 5).
an town on the outskirts of the city
a figurative locations that means chaos
a psychiatric hospital
the poor house
Which of the following quotes indicate that Scrooge believed the poor were to blame for their situation?
“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease
the surplus population."
“Much good may it do you!
Much good it has ever done you!”
"What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough."
"I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry."
Who says the following quote: ‘A merry Christmas, Uncle! God save you!’
Bob
Tiny Tim
Fred
Marley
Multiple Answer: Which characters are seen as the antithesis (the opposite) of Scrooge in Stave 1?
Jacob Marley
Fred
Bob Cratchit
Fran
The men asking for a donation
Complete the quote: "A poor excuse for ________ a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December! "
taking
stealing
plucking
picking
What device is the following phrase "as solitary as an oyster"
personification
metaphor
simile
juxtaposition
Identify the technique: the houses opposite were mere phantoms
Alliteration
Repetition
Metaphor
Sibilance
Identify the technique: All these boys were in great spirits, and shouted to each other, until the broad fields were so full of merry music, that the crisp air laughed to hear it.
Repetition
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Identify the technique: The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge
Repetition
Anaphora
Simile
Personification
Multiple Answers: Which of the following best describes how people react to Scrooge?
No one would stop to ask him how he was doing.
The blind men's dogs would beg him for food.
No one would ever ask him for directions.
People would be nice to him but generally not speak to him.
For how many years had Marley been dead at the start of the story?
Seven years
Four years
Twelve months
Three weeks
Who describes Christmas as 'a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time'?
Bob Cratchit, Scrooge's clerk
Belle, Scrooge's former fiance
Fred, Scrooge's nephew
Tiny Tim, Bob's son
Which 'establishments' to help the poor does Scrooge mention? Select two answers
Work houses
Food banks
Schools
Prisons
Which are two component of Marley's chain? Select two answers
Wills
Purses wrought in steel
Cash-boxes
Brief cases
What does Marley drop when he unwraps his bandage?
His arm
His leg
His shoulder
His jaw
What does Marley say Scrooge still has a chance of?
Making even more money
Enjoying Christmas Day
Reuniting with Belle
Escaping his fate
What, according to Marley, should have been his business in life? Select two answers
The common welfare
Redeeming himself
Charity
Looking after his family
When Marley appears to Scrooge he is wearing a (a) around his middle.
What does Marley have to carry through eternity?
a bag of his clothing and food
the weight of all of the destitute people
all of the things that were important to him in life
bricks and mortar which are incredibly heavy
Why has Marley come to visit Scrooge
To haunt him
To bring him Christmas cheer
To warn him
To tell him to sell his business
Which of the following quotes give the indication of a small change in Scrooge?
It was not angry or ferocious, but
looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look: with ghostly specta-
cles turned up on its ghostly forehead.
There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever
you are!
Scrooge’s countenance fell almost as low as the Ghost’s had done
He tried to say
“Humbug!” but stopped at the first syllable.
