A Christmans Carol Quotes

Question 1

This metaphor show how tight scrooge is with money

Answer 1

‘he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’

Question 2

This list of adjectives describes scrooge

Answer 2

‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!’

Question 3

This tells us that scrooge is lonely but also hints that he has some hidden Christmas spirit in him

Answer 3

‘solitary as an oyster’

Question 4

Flint is hard and cold and this foreshadows scrooges character but also shows hidden Christmas spirit as flint sparks

Answer 4

‘hard and sharp as flint’

Question 5

Cold hearted

Answer 5

‘The cold within him froze his old features’

Question 6

Scrooges cold heart is always the same and never changes

Answer 6

‘He carried his own low temperature always’

Question 7

No coal in his office

Answer 7

‘he iced his office’

Question 8

cliché start to a fairy tail

Answer 8

‘Once upon a time…’

Question 9

Scrooges Christmas spirit is very small but his clerks Christmas spirit was massive even tho his life wasn’t perfect.

Answer 9

‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked
like one coal’.

Question 10

Scrooge trusts nobody and is so stingy that he wont give any coal to his clerk

Answer 10

‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’

Question 11

Using the verb pouring makes the fog seem like its creeping in.

Answer 11

‘The fog came pouring in…’

Question 12

By using the adjective cheerful we know its fred

Answer 12

‘”A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’

Question 13

The adjective ‘glow’ and ‘sparkles’ represents warmth and the light of the Christmas spirit

Answer 13

‘he was all in a glow’

‘his eyes sparkled’

Question 14

What Scrooge says when he’s annoyed

Answer 14

‘Bah!…Humbug!’

Question 15

Scrooge hates Christmas and hates its humor

Answer 15

‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’

Question 16

The homeless have ah big fire

Answer 16

‘Had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged
men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their
eyes before the blaze in rapture’

Question 17

The cold on christmans

Answer 17

‘The cold became intense’

Question 18

It was foggy and dark

Answer 18

‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’

Question 19

Scrooge does not care. In his eyes it is mot his…

Answer 19

‘It’s not my business’

Question 20

The most evil thing scrooge says in the novella saying the homeless should jus die

Answer 20

‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the
surplus population’

Question 21

Christmas is a time to be with people and to rejoice

Answer 21

‘We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is
keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’

Question 22

Scrooge is asked to raise momey for the homeless and he responds with

Answer 22

‘Are there no prisons?’

Question 23

Scrooge thinks his clerk is stealing money (like a pick pocket) from him because he gets played on his one day off of the year

Answer 23

‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’

Question 24

The clerk was so JOLLY that it was Christmas eve and ran ho,e to his family

Answer 24

The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’

Question 25

Scrooge thinks his clerk is stealing money (like a pick pocket) from him because he gets played on his one day off of the year

Answer 25

‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’

Question 26

The clerk was so JOLLY that it was Christmas eve and ran ho,e to his family

Answer 26

The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’