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WorksheetsA Christmas Carol Comprehension Skills Test
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 25mins
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1.
What is the setting of “A Christmas Carol”?
a)
a. England
b)
b. 1843
c)
c. Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the morning after Christmas
d)
d. all of these
2.
How were the poor treated in time of the the story's setting?
4 lines
3.
Based on your answer from above, what effect did this have on society?
4 lines
4.
Which of these statements describes how aside is used in “A Christmas Carol”?
a)
a. Ebenezer Scrooge thinks aloud for the benefit of the audience.
b)
b. Bob Cratchit delivers a long speech that characterizes Scrooge.
c)
c. Jacob Marley speaks directly to the audience.
d)
d. none of these
5.
Which excerpt 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, including Scrooge’s Chambers and Offices; the Cratchit Home; Fred’s Home; Scrooge’s School; Fezziwig’s Offices; Old Joe’s Hide-a-Way
d)
d. PRESENT: I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me.
6.
Ebenezer Scrooge is characterized as being tightfisted and stingy. Which excerpt from the play below best supports this characterization of Scrooge?
a)
a. (MARLEY): He never painted out my name from the window. There it stands, on the window and above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley… He answers to both names. It’s all the same to him. And it’s cheaper than painting in a new sign, isn’t it?
b)
b. (MARLEY): Christmas Eve and Scrooge is busy in his counting-house. It is cold, bleak, biting weather outside: foggy withal: and, if you listen closely, you can hear the people in the court go wheezing up and down beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them…
c)
c. (NEPHEW): There are many things from which I have derived good, by which I have not profited, I daresay. Christmas among the rest. But I am sure that I always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round – as a good time: the only time I know of, when men and women seem to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
d)
d. (PORTLY MAN): At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute who suffer greatly at the present time.
7.
At the beginning of the play, Scrooge is in his counting house and is concerned with…
a)
b. signing contracts.
b)
c. collecting money from those who owe him.
c)
d. choosing Christmas presents for friends and family.
8.
Who visited Scrooge to request a donation for the poor?
a)
a. his nephew
b)
b. Cratchit
c)
c. two orphans from the workhouse
d)
d. the thin man and the portly man
9.
What did Marley do to cause Scrooge to beg for mercy?
a)
a. Marley woke Scrooge.
b)
b. Marley screamed a ghostly, fearful scream.
c)
c. Marley rang the bell without touching it.
d)
d. none of these
10.
How does Ebenezer Scrooge react to the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Past?
a)
a. Scrooge bats at him with his walking stick.
b)
b. Scrooge drops to his knees and begs for mercy.
c)
c. Scrooge hides under his bed sheet and pretends not to see the Ghost.
d)
d. Scrooge politely suggests that he would have preferred to be left alone.
11.
The Ghost of Christmas Past took Scrooge…
a)
a. to his boyhood town.
b)
b. to a warehouse where Scrooge once worked.
c)
c. both of these
d)
d. neither of these
12.
In the past, how did Scrooge know Fezziwig?
a)
a. Fezziwig was a childhood friend.
b)
b. Fezziwig was a fellow apprentice.
c)
c. Fezziwig was his boss.
d)
d. none of these
13.
What lesson does Scrooge learn from the Ghost of Christmas Past?
a)
a. Family is more important than friends.
b)
b. A good employer treats his workers with kindness and respect.
c)
c. The poor cannot be blamed for their poverty.
d)
d. Some wounds can never heal.
14.
Which of these ghosts appeared first in Act II?
a)
a. The Ghost of Christmas Past
b)
b. The Ghost of Christmas Present
c)
c. The Ghost of Christmas Future
d)
d. The Ghost of Christmas Never
15.
What did the Ghost of Christmas Present sprinkle from his torch?
a)
a. holy water
b)
b. good will
c)
c. fellow feeling
d)
d. kindness
16.
Whose family did Scrooge visit with the Ghost of Christmas Present?
a)
a. Cratchit's family
b)
b. Marley's family
c)
c. Fezziwig's family
d)
d. none of these
17.
How is the Ghost of Christmas Future different from the Ghosts of Christmas Present and Christmas Past?
a)
a. Scrooge is not allowed a look at Future’s face.
b)
b. The Ghost of Christmas Future does not speak to Scrooge.
c)
c. The Ghost of Christmas Future seems unconcerned with Scrooge’s fate.
d)
d. all of these
18.
What did the three businessmen discuss?
a)
a. Scrooge's death
b)
b. Scrooge's money
c)
c. Scrooge's funeral
d)
d. all of these
19.
What did Mrs. Dilber, the First Woman, and the First Man all have in common?
a)
a. All of them were enemies of Scrooge.
b)
b. All of them stole things from Scrooge after his death.
c)
c. All of them eventually died because of Scrooge’s negligence.
d)
d. none of these
20.
What does the ghost reveal to Scrooge about Tiny Tim’s fate?
a)
a. Tiny Tim has a long road of sickness ahead.
b)
b. Tiny Tim will die if nothing changes.
c)
c. Tiny Tim will experience a Christmas miracle.
d)
d. Tiny Tim will someday work for Scrooge.
21.
Which statement below is true about the end of the play?
a)
a. Scrooge eventually returned to his old ways.
b)
b. Scrooge gave his nephew a raise.
c)
c. Tiny Tim did not die.
d)
d. Marley was alive again.
22.
In Act II, Scene 4, Scrooge asks the Ghost of Christmas Future to show him tenderness connected to a death. How does the Ghost accomplish this request?
4 lines
23.
Explain the significance of this statement in the play: Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
Hint: This answer should include details from multiple parts of the play.
4 lines
24.
At the beginning of "A Christmas Carol," how did Ebenezer Scrooge treat others? How did Scrooge feel about life in general? What does he learn to feel for others by the end of the play?
4 lines
25.
How does our treatment of others reflect our own outlook on life?
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