WorksheetsAct 1 and 2: A Christmas Carol Review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
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1.
When does the ENTIRE ACTION of the play take place?
a)
a. Christmas Eve, 1843
b)
b. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, 1843
c)
c. Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the morning of the day after Christmas, 1843
2.
Which excerpt from below is an example of STAGE DIRECTIONS?
a)
a. [A PHANTOM, hooded, appears in dim light, D., opposite.]
b)
b. MARLEY: My name is Jacob Marley and I am dead.
c)
c. Various locations in and around the city of London
3.
ALL of the following locations serve as a setting of Act I EXCEPT:
a)
b. Scrooge's chambers and offices
b)
c. Scrooge’s school
c)
d. a workhouse
4.
What is the PURPOSE of Marley’s speech in the beginning of Act I?
a)
a. to present himself as the Ghost of Christmas Past
b)
b. to introduce the character of Scrooge to the audience
c)
c. to explain why he walks the earth as a spirit
5.
What does the reader learn about Scrooge’s CHARACTER from Marley in the first scene of Act I?
a)
a. He is a happy and content man.
b)
b. He often gives money to beggars.
c)
c. He is a solitary miser and a misanthrope.
6.
Why does Scrooge object to people enjoying Christmas?
a)
a. He finds Christmas sad because Marley died on Christmas Eve.
b)
b. He cares only for making money, and Christmas interrupts business.
c)
c. He only pretends to dislike Christmas by saying, “Humbug.”
7.
During the Victorian time period, what was the purpose of the Treadmill ?
a)
a. to help people lose weight
b)
b. to punish prisoners in jail
c)
c. to give prisoners in jail the chance to earn money
8.
Why are the roles of the Do-gooders, the Thin Man and the Portly Man, significant?
a)
a. They are collecting for the poor.
b)
b. They do not celebrate Christmas.
c)
c. They allow the reader to see that Scrooge is a misanthrope.
9.
What can the audience infer about Bob Cratchit when he gives a coin to the men collecting for the poor?
a)
b. He is very embarrassed by Scrooge’s behavior.
b)
c. He wants to “outshine” Scrooge.
c)
d. He does not consider himself poor.
10.
Which of the following quotes BEST demonstrates how Scrooge feels about Christmas Eve in Act 1 Scene 3?
a)
a. "No light at all...no moon...that is what is at the center of Christmas Eve: dead black: void..."
b)
b. "Humbug! I tell you: humbug!"
c)
c. "Who are you?"
11.
Which of the following statements illustrates that Fred (Nephew) feels SORRY for his uncle?
a)
a. “Well, he’s a comical old fellow, that’s the truth.”
b)
b. “Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always…”
c)
c. "What right have you to be dismal? What right have you to be morose? You're rich enough?"
12.
Scrooge and his nephew, Fred, can best be characterized as…
a)
a. dynamic characters
b)
b. motivating characters
c)
c. dramatic foils
13.
Which quotation best supports the answer to the question above?
a)
a. “Only three! And quite dark outside already: it has not been light all day this day.”
b)
b. “Nephew! You keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep it in mine.”
c)
c. “Let me hear another sound from you and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your situation.”
14.
How long has Marley been dead?
a)
b. nine years
b)
c. twelve years
c)
d. seven years
15.
What does Scrooge see in the doorknocker?
a)
a. his past
b)
b. Marley’s face
c)
c. a key
16.
How does Marley get the chain he wears as a ghost?
a)
a. He was given the chain by a wandering ghost.
b)
b. He created the chain by adding links each time he screamed.
c)
c. He made the chain with the choices he made in life and his greed.
17.
When Scrooge returns to his quarters on Christmas Eve night, he does all of the following EXCEPT
a)
b. He checks each room and looks under the sofa and table.
b)
c. He fixes his evening gruel and eats it by the small fire.
c)
d. He locks all the windows and the doors, and he goes to sleep.
18.
The Ghost of Christmas PAST takes Scrooge to all of the following settings EXCEPT:
a)
b. his old employer's office (Fezziwig)
b)
c. Scrooge's school that he attended as a little boy
c)
d. Fred (Nephew's) home
19.
What does the reader learn about Scrooge’s boyhood during the visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past?
a)
a. He was alone and lonely as a child.
b)
b. He was a favorite of the schoolmaster.
c)
c. He cared only about money.
20.
How does Scrooge respond to seeing his former Master Fezziwig’s Christmas party?
a)
b. He wishes he could say a word or two to his clerk Bob Cratchit.
b)
c. He wishes he had given money to the boy singing carols.
c)
d. He realizes how much he misses his sister Fan.
21.
What does the reader learn about Scrooge’s past from the dialogue between young Scrooge and the young woman (Belle)?
a)
a. She is ending their engagement because he is too concerned with making money.
b)
b. She is ending their engagement because they became engaged when they were very young.
c)
c. She is ending their engagement because she believes he loves another woman.
22.
How does the reader know that Scrooge is evolving when the Ghost of Christmas Past takes him to his past?
a)
a. He tells Marley that he must get back to work.
b)
b. He decides to spend Christmas with his nephew, Fred.
c)
c. Scrooge tells the Spirit to remove him from one of the scenes from his past.
23.
What can the reader infer from Fan’s (Scrooge's sister) speech to young Scrooge?
a)
a. This is young Scrooge’s first Christmas away from home.
b)
b. Scrooge’s father did not believe in Christmas either.
c)
c. Scrooge’s father was unkind in the past and would not allow him to come home for Christmas.
24.
What incident shows that Scrooge has not completely EVOLVED from his visit with the Ghost of Christmas Present?
a)
a. He goes willingly with the Ghost of Christmas Present.
b)
b. He asks if the Ghost sprinkles his kindness on everyone.
c)
c. He thinks Bob Cratchit is foolish to have so many children on his salary.
25.
What lesson does Scrooge learn from the Ghost of Christmas PAST?
a)
b. A good employer (boss) treats his/her workers with kindness and respect.
b)
c. The poor cannot be blamed for their poverty.
c)
d. Childhood experiences do not impact one's future.
26.
How does Marley try to astonish Scrooge in the opening of Act II, Scene 1?
a)
b. He moves time forward.
b)
c. He shows Scrooge no one, nothing.
c)
d. All of the above.
27.
What does the Ghost of Christmas Present mean when he says he has “[m]ore than eighteen hundred brothers”?
a)
b. The Ghost of Christmas Present’s family has over eighteen hundred members.
b)
c. Each brother represents a year since a man like Marley has been visited.
c)
d. Each brother represents a year since the first Christmas.
28.
The Cratchit family celebrates Christmas in all of the following ways except
a)
a. They give each other expensive presents.
b)
b. They eat a family meal together.
c)
c. They pray and thank God for what they have.
29.
Which statement best explains why the Ghost of Christmas Present brings Scrooge to visit the Cratchit family’s Christmas celebration?
a)
b. “Their shoes are not even waterproofed by virtue of money or cleverness spent.”
b)
c. “They don’t sing very well, do they?”
c)
d. “They are happy, grateful, pleased with one another, contented with the time and how it passes.”
30.
The Ghost of Christmas Present reveals two gnarled children to Scrooge and introduces them as:
a)
a. Ignorance and Gain
b)
b. Ignorance and Want
c)
c. Pride and Prejudice
31.
What is Dickens’s intention for including the scene with Mrs. Dilber, Old Joe, and the Man and Woman?
a)
a. He wants to illustrate the greediness of the poor.
b)
b. He wants to illustrate that no one cared about Scrooge in the event of his death; they only wanted his belongings.
c)
c. He wants to illustrate the extent of Scrooge’s wealth.
32.
The setting of the scene with Mrs. Dilber, Old Joe, and the Man and Woman is
a)
a. Old Joe's Hideaway in the PAST.
b)
b. Old Joe's Hideaway in the PRESENT.
c)
c. Old Joe's Hideaway in the FUTURE.
33.
Why does Bob Cratchit make a toast to Scrooge?
a)
a. He is making fun of him.
b)
b. He is grateful for his employment.
c)
c. He knows he is watching.
34.
What is the Ghost of Christmas Present’s intent when he says of the Cratchits, “Fifteen shillings a week and they do sing”?
a)
b. Singing is the only way the Cratchits can celebrate the holiday.
b)
c. The Cratchits sing at rich people’s parties to earn extra money.
c)
d. Even though the Cratchits are poor, they enjoy being together.
35.
Why does the Ghost of Christmas Present say he sprinkles kindness on the poor?
a)
b. The poor are starving.
b)
c. The rich do not like sprinkles.
c)
The poor need kindness the most.
36.
Why did Scrooge want the Ghost of Christmas Present to make him visible and audible after watching his Nephew (Fred) and his wife?
a)
a. Scrooge wanted to cook Christmas dinner for them.
b)
b. Scrooge was afraid they had forgotten him.
c)
c. Scrooge wanted to talk with them.
37.
Why does the Ghost of Christmas Present repeat the following passage to Scrooge as he fades away? (Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?)
a)
a. The Ghost thinks the poor belong in prisons or workhouses.
b)
b. The Ghost is repeating Scrooge’s words; Scrooge believes the poor belong in prisons or workhouses.
c)
c. The Ghost thinks Scrooge belongs in a prison or workhouse.
38.
How is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Future) different from Ghosts of Christmas Present and Christmas Past?
a)
b. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Future) does not speak.
b)
c. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Future) seems unconcerned with Scrooge's fate.
c)
d. All of the above
39.
Why is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Future) mute?
a)
a. The ghost does not speak because the future has not happened yet and may still be changed.
b)
b. This is the last of the ghosts; there is nothing left for him to teach Scrooge.
c)
c. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Future) is completely uninterested in Scrooge’s fate.
40.
Future shows Scrooge all of the following events except:
a)
a. Tiny Tim's passing (death)
b)
b. a gravestone with Scrooge's name on it
c)
d. Fezziwig's Christmas Eve celebration
41.
Why does Scrooge ask if Tiny Tim will live?
a)
a. He is afraid of Tiny Tim’s ghost.
b)
b. He is starting to care about the Cratchit family.
c)
c. He doesn’t want to have to pay for his doctor bills.
42.
On Christmas Day, Scrooge does all of the following except
a)
b. He gives Bob Cratchit a raise.
b)
c. He gives money to the poor.
c)
d. He goes to dinner at his nephew’s home.
43.
At the end of the play, Scrooge can be characterized as a
a)
a. a misanthrope.
b)
c. rebellious character.
c)
d. dynamic character,
44.
Which of the following statements proves that Scrooge is a dynamic character?
a)
a. “Why show me this, if I am past all hope.”
b)
b. “Oh. Good Spirit, I see by your wavering hand that your good nature intercedes for me and pities me.”
c)
c. “I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future… I will not shut out lessons that they teach.”
45.
Which statement(s) can be a theme of A Christmas Carol?
a)
b. Money doesn’t buy a person’s happiness.
b)
c. It is worthwhile and rewarding to care about other people.
c)
d. All of the above.
46.
"Tonight is you have aught teach me, let me profit by it."
a)
e. Scrooge
b)
a. Fred (nephew)
c)
b. Mrs. Dilber
d)
c. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Future)
e)
d. Ghost of Christmas Present
47.
"Thank you dear Lord, for your many gifts...our dear children; our wonderful meal; our love for one another..."
a)
Bob Cratchit
b)
b. Tiny Tim
c)
c. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Future)
d)
d. Ghost of Christmas Present
e)
e. Scrooge
48.
"My time grows short...Do you see how I've aged?"
a)
d. Ghost of Christmas Present
b)
a. Mrs. Dilber
c)
b. Tiny Tim
d)
c. First Woman
e)
e. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Future)
49.
"If he wanted to keep 'em after he was dead, the wicked old screw, why wasn't he natural in his lifetime?"
a)
c. First Woman
b)
a. Fred (nephew)
c)
b. Tiny Tim
d)
d. Ghost of Christmas Present
e)
e. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Future)
50.
"The firm of Scrooge and Marley is doubly blessed; two misers turned; one, alas in Death; but the other in Time's penultimate nick."
a)
f. Jacob Marley
b)
a. Bob Cratchit
c)
b. Tiny Tim
d)
c. First Woman
e)
d. Old Joe
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