A Christmas Carol

Question 1

Scrooge, Stave 3

Answer 1

“If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.”

Question 2

Marley’s ghost, Stave 1

Answer 2

“I wear the chain I forged in life”

Question 3

Fred, Stave 3

Answer 3

“His wealth is of no use to him. He don’t do any good with it.”

Question 4

Ghost of Christmas Present, Stave 3

Answer 4

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.”

Question 5

Dickens

Answer 5

“Hard and sharp as flint.”

Question 6

Scrooge, Stave 5

Answer 6

“I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am giddy as a drunken man.”

Question 7

Dickens, Stave 3

Answer 7

“Mrs Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce.”

Question 8

Scrooge, Stave 4

Answer 8

“A churchyard, overrun by weeds, the growth of vegetation’s death not life - a worthy place!”

Question 9

Dickens

Answer 9

“Scrooge was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys long long forgotten.”

Question 10

Dickens

Answer 10

“The house-fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground.”

Question 11

Dickens

Answer 11

“As solitary as an oyster”