A Christmas Carol Key Quotes

Question 1

Describes how scrooge is (start)(2)

Answer 1

Hard and sharp as flint

Solitary as an oyster

Question 2

What scrooge thinks of christmas (start)

Answer 2

Bah humbug

Question 3

When scrooge questions what he pays for with his tax money

Answer 3

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Question 4

Scrooge explains what people should do if they want to die

Answer 4

If they would rather die then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population

Question 5

Marley explains his business

Answer 5

Mankind was my business

Question 6

What scrooge thinks marley is

Answer 6

You may be an undigested bit of beef

Question 7

What Marley’s chains are made up of

Answer 7

I wear the chain i forged in life… the chain was made up of cash boxes… ledgers… heavy purses.

Question 8

Scrooge at the end of the play showing how he will change

Answer 8

I will honour christmas in my heart. I will live in the past, the present and the future

Question 9

Tiny Tim’s most famous line, bless everyone

Answer 9

God bless us, everyone

Question 10

Describing Bob Cratchit’s fire

Answer 10

The clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like only one coal

Question 11

Talking about what scrooges priority is, belles most famous quote

Answer 11

Another idol has displaced me… a golden one

Question 12

Fred questioning scrooge for being so miserly despite his riches

Answer 12

What reason do you have to be morose? You’re rich enough

Question 13

Fred trying to calm his uncle down

Answer 13

Don’t be angry uncle, merry christmas!

Question 14

The ghost of christmas past talking about scrooge as a child

Answer 14

A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still… scrooge sobbed

Question 15

Scrooge wishing he could go back in time to the carol singer

Answer 15

I should have given him something: thats all

Question 16

Scrooge wanting to talk to Bob but he cannot

Answer 16

I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now. Thats all.

Question 17

Description of the ghost of christmas present

Answer 17

A jolly giant who bore a glowing torch with a cheery voice and a joyful air

Question 18

We are introduced to the symbol of the poor

Answer 18

They are man’s. The boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware for i see that written which is doom

Question 19

Talking about scrooges funeral

Answer 19

I don’t mind going if a lunch is provided

Question 20

Talking about scrooges death

Answer 20

Old Scratch has got his own at last hey?

Question 21

The description of the ghost of christmas yet to come

Answer 21

It was shrouded in a deep black garment which concealed its head, its face, its form and left nothing visible except one outstretched hand

Question 22

When we are introduced to Fezziwig (2)

Answer 22

Bless his heart; it’s Fezziwig alive again!

Yo ho there! Ebenezer! Dick! No more work tonight!

Question 23

Little fan telling scrooge he can come home and scrooges response

Answer 23

I have come to bring you home dear brother.. home, home, home!
You are quite a woman, little Fan