A Christmas Carol Key quotes

Question 1

‘Hard and Sharp as flint’

Answer 1

Decribing Scrooge

Question 2

‘As solitary as an oyster’

Answer 2

Describing Scrooge

Question 3

‘As merry as a schoolboy’

Answer 3

Scrooge following his transformation

Question 4

‘External heat and cold had little influence’ ‘frosty rime’

Answer 4

Describing Scrooge

Question 5

‘Tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’

Answer 5

Describing Scrooge

Question 6

‘a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible’

Answer 6

Describing The Ghost of Christmas Past

Question 7

‘Another idol has displaced me’

Answer 7

Belle to Scrooge

Question 8

‘A solitary child, neglected by friends’

Answer 8

Describing a young Scrooge

Question 9

‘its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice’

Answer 9

Describing The Ghost of Christmas Present

Question 10

‘brave in ribbons’

Answer 10

Mrs Cratchit

Question 11

‘If the shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die’

Answer 11

Said by The Ghost of Christmas Present

Question 12

‘This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want’

Answer 12

Ghost of Christmas Present

Question 13

‘The phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached’

Answer 13

The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come

Question 14

He was so fluttered and so glowing with good intentions

Answer 14

Scrooge after his transformation

Question 15

‘God bless us, everyone’

Answer 15

Tiny Tim

Question 16

‘Oh tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone’

Answer 16

Scrooge

Question 17

‘The time before him was his own to make amends in’

Answer 17

Scrooge