A Christmas Carol Quotes

Question 1

Scrooge described as cold, unfriendly

Answer 1

• stave 1
• ‘frosty rime’
• ‘no warmth, could warm’
• ‘solitary as an oyster’
• ‘no children asked him what it was o’clock’
• ‘gruff old bell’
• ‘fog and darkness thickened’
• ‘tower[of church]’ ‘became invisible’
• ‘gruel’

Question 2

Meet fred

Answer 2

• Stave 1
• foil to Scrooge
• Scrooge’s nephew
• ‘Merry Christmas!’ - ‘Bah!’ ‘Humbug!’

Question 3

Portly Gentleman

Answer 3

• stave 1+5
• ‘decrease the surplus population’
• ‘I wish to be left alone’
• ‘not a farthing less’- stave 5

Question 4

Scrooge’s house

Answer 4

Stave 1

• ‘gloomy suite of rooms’
• ‘handful of fuel’
• ‘mournful meditation’ -weather outside of his house

Question 5

Marley’s ghost

Answer 5

-stave 1
-scrooge is scared, paranoid
-‘scrooge trembled’
-‘Lumber-room as usual’
-‘not a knocker, but Marley’s face’
-‘like a bad lobster in a dark cellar’
In denial -‘I won’t believe it’
Warning to scrooge: ‘I wear the chain I forged in life’
‘Incessant torture of remorse’

Question 6

Ghost of Christmas Past

Answer 6

Doesn’t want to face his past

• ‘begged him to be covered’
• ‘desire to see the spirit in his cap’

Question 7

Goes to visit himself as a boy at school

Answer 7

• stave 2
• ‘your lip is trembling’
• ‘I should have liked to have given him something’ -choir boy, already changing

Question 8

Belle

Answer 8

Stave 2
Relationship with ‘Golden idol’
-saw family he could’ve had

Question 9

Fezziwigs party

Answer 9

• Stave 2
• money can make people happy
• ‘dance’
• food: ‘plenty of beer’, ‘mince pies’, ‘Cold roast’
• lots of people invited: ‘housemaid’ , ‘baker’, ‘milkman!
• ‘snug warm and dry’

Question 10

Ghost of Christmas Present

Answer 10

-stave 3
Scrooge scared: ‘trembling’ ‘he obeyed’ - not resistive
-‘jolly giant’
-‘green robe’
-‘genial’
-‘throne’ of food

Question 11

Cratchit’s Christmas

Answer 11

-stave 3
-‘threadbare clothes’
-‘Eked out’
-‘Tiny Tim’
-scrooge is an ‘ogre’
-spirit echos Scrooge- ‘decrease the surplus population’
‘nobody said’

Question 12

Fred’s Christmas party

Answer 12

• stave 3
• wealthy
• clothes ‘lace tucker’, ‘silken rustlings’

Question 13

Want and abundance

Answer 13

• stave 3
• ‘man’s’ -humankinds problem
• criticises poverty and education system
• face lives of ‘Doom’
• ‘Yellow, meagre, ragged’

Question 14

Ghost of Christmas Future

Answer 14

• stave 4
• ‘solemn Phantom, draped and hooded’ -mourning, Grim reaper
• doesn’t speak- ‘ Will you not speak to me?’ - silence important, cant predict future
• Scrooge ‘fitted him with a solemn dread’ , ‘thrilled him’

Question 15

Visit people after Scrooge’s death

Answer 15

• stave 4
• not liked
• ‘straggling streets’

Question 16

Caroline

Answer 16

-stave 4
-happy after Scrooge’s death-in debt to him
-‘clasped hands’
, ‘happier house’

Question 17

Old Joe + Mrs Dilber

Answer 17

• stave 4
• scrooge is ‘wicked old screw’
• stole ‘Bed-curtains’ , ‘shirt’

Question 18

Tiny Tim’s death

Answer 18

• stave 4
• ‘he broke down all at once’ - ‘little Bob’
• ‘Thy childish essence was from God’

Question 19

Visits Scrooge’s grave

Answer 19

• ‘wretched man’

- ‘worthy place’ - ‘overrun by grass and weeds’

Question 20

Stave 4

Answer 20

• ‘I am not the man I was’
• ‘last prayer’
• ‘fate reversed’
• ‘kind hand trembled’ - ghost, shouldn’t be afraid of death if good Christian

Question 21

Change in Scrooge

Answer 21

• stave 5
• ‘I’ll give you half-a-crown’ -boy who got ‘prize turkey’
• ‘baby’ - reborn
• ‘churches ringing out’
• ‘chuckle’
• ‘A merry Christmas’
• ‘raise your salary’
• ‘no fog, no mist’
• ‘he went to church’
• ‘not a farthing less’