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WorksheetsA Christmas Carol Stave 1 Review
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 8mins
In the first paragraph, Dickens tells us no less than four times that someone is dead. What is the last name of the person who is dead? (proper spelling counts)
(a)
Why does Dickens EMPHATICALLY bring up this person's death multiple times?
Dickens liked to use repetition as a literary device.
This character will visit later...as a ghost!
It's a trick--the character is not really dead. He shows up later.
Dickens was paid by the word and trying to increase his word count.
The following quote is about which character? "No warmth could warm, no wintery weather chill him." (type this character's last name; proper spelling counts)
(a)
Why does the author compare this character to cold weather?
to show that the character's heart is frozen
to emphasize that the story takes place at Christmas
Charles Dickens was born in the winter (February)
to emphasize that the character is old
What mood (feeling in the reader) does the following passage hope to set? "It was cold, bleak, biting weather, foggy withal."
creepy
joyful
curious
sad
A character that acts as a contrast to the main character is called what?
a foil
an antagonist
a protagonist
a plot twist
Who is Scrooge's foil?
his nephew, Fred
his employee, Bob Cratchit
his dead partner, Jacob Marley
the men who ask Scrooge to donate money to help the poor
What does the following quote say about Scrooge? “If they would rather die...they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
he is misanthropic
he is generous
he is benevolent
he is destitute
When Scrooge arrives at his front door, what does he see in the door knocker?
Marley's face
his own reflection
a hearse
balustrades
What life lesson does this excerpt hope to teach?
It is required of every man…that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world...and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness.
People should strive to help others.
People should save as much money as possible.
People should travel for pleasure.
People should walk for exercise and pleasure.
When Scrooge says that Marley was always a good man of business, how does Marley reply?
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.
"I cannot rest, I cannot stay. I cannot linter anywhere. My spirit never walked beyond our countinghouse."
"I wear the chain I forged in life...I made it link by link, and yard by yard...Is its pattern strange to you?"
"I am here tonight to warn you that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate."
As Marley leaves, Scrooge goes to the window and sees many ghosts who are miserable because "they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever." What does "interfere for good" mean in this case?
The ghosts want to give the living people they see some money.
The ghosts want to talk with the living people because they are lonely.
The ghosts are afraid of the living people and want to get away from them.
The ghosts wish they could celebrate Christmas with the living people.
Jacob Marley and the other ghosts that Scrooge sees in Stave 1 are "fettered" with chains made of "cashboxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses." What do these things represent?
all the money the ghosts hoarded and did not share while they were alive
all the money the ghosts owed to other people when they died
all the money that the ghosts donated to charity while they were alive
all the money the ghosts wished they had while they were alive
