A Christmas Carol

Question 1

“External heat and cold…”
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Answer 1

“External heat and cold had little influence on scrooge.”
Theme: Redemption
Stave 1
Said by: Narrator

Question 2

“Darkness is…”
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Answer 2

“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”
Theme: Redemption
Stave 1
Said by: Narrator

Question 3

“If they would rather die…”
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Answer 3

“If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.”
Theme: Social Injustice
Stave 1
Said by: Scrooge

Question 4

As solitary as an…”
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Answer 4

“As solitary as an oyster.”
Theme: Redemption
Stave 1
Said by: Narrator

Question 5

“I wear the chains…”
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Answer 5

“I wear the chains I forged in life”
Theme: Responsibility
Stave 1
Said by: Jacob Marley

Question 6

“Another idol has…”
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Answer 6

“Another idol has displaced me”
Theme: Relationships, redemption
Said by: Belle

Question 7

“The boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware them both and…”
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Answer 7

“The boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware them both and all of their degree, but most of all, beware of this boy”
Theme: Social injustice, responsibility
Stave 3
Said by: Ghost of Christmas present

Question 8

“If these shadows remain unaltered…”
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Answer 8

“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
Theme: Responsibility
Stave 3
Said by: Ghost of Christmas Present about Tiny Tim

Question 9

“Overrun by…”
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Answer 9

“Overrun by grass and weeds”
Theme: Redemption
Stave 4
Said by: narrator about Scrooge’s grave

Question 10

“It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral…”
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Answer 10

“It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral, for upon my life I don’t know of anybody to go to it.”
Stave:4
Said by: Two business colleagues

Question 11

“ The Spirits of all Three…”
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Answer 11

“The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me”
Theme: Redemption, Christmas
Said by: Scrooge

Question 12

“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A…”
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Answer 12

“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”
Stave 1
Said by: narrator

Question 13

“No warmth could warm…”
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Answer 13

“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.”
Stave 1
Said by: narrator

Question 14

“My little, little child…”
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Answer 14

“My little, little child! My little child!”
Theme: family
Stave 4
Said by: Bob Cratchit

Question 15

“There is nothing more irresistibly contagious as…“

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Answer 15

“There is nothing more irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”

Said by: narrator

Question 16

“The cold within him froze his features, nipped his pointed nose…”
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Answer 16

“The cold within him froze his features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.”
Theme: Gothic
Stave 1
Said by: narrator