A Christmas Carol Quotes

Question 1

Quote describing Scrooge’s role with Marley

Answer 1

Scrooge was his sole executor,his sole administrator,his sole assign,his sole residuary legatee,his sole friend and sole mourner

Question 2

Quote describing Scrooge’s personality

Answer 2

He carried his own low temperature around with him always…and didn’t thaw it one degree at christmas

Question 3

Quote describing scrooge’s lonliness

Answer 3

Solitary as an oyster

Question 4

Quote from Fred about Christmas

Answer 4

Though it has never put a scrap of silver or gold in my pocket I believe it has done me good and I say God bless It!

Question 5

Quote from Scrooge on social duty using violent imagery

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Quote from Marley about what men should do

Answer 6

It is required of every man,that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men and travel far and wide

Question 7

Marley’s warning of what happened to him

Answer 7

I wear the chain i forged in life

Question 8

Quote from Ghost of christmas past about community

Answer 8

Fezziwig has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money…is that so much that he deserves this praise

Question 9

Quote from Belle at the end of the relationship

Answer 9

Another idol has displaced me,biblical imagery

Question 10

Quote from when Scrooge first meets the Ghost of Christmas Present and what he’s sutting on

Answer 10

Heaped up on the floow,to form a kind of throne were turkeys…,sausages…,puddings.Shows sheer abundance that could be shared,Scrooge could share this

Question 11

Quote from ghost of christmas present about what will happen to tiny tim

Answer 11

I see a vacant seat,in the poor chimney corner and a crutch without an owner…if these shadows remain unfaltered by the future,the child will die.Shows Scrooge that tim will die if he doesn’t change

Question 12

Quote from Scrooge when shown stuff in future

Answer 12

“Am I that man that lay upon the bed”, realises if he doesn’t change this is his future

Question 13

What’s a quote on redemption by scrooge

Answer 13

And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep christmas well if any man alive possesed the knowledge.Means he has fully changed

Question 14

Quote describing Scrooge at the start of the book as angry

Answer 14

Hard and sharp as flint

Question 15

Vivid description of scrooge at the start of the text

Answer 15

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone scrooge,a squeezing,wrenching,grasping,scraping,clutching,covetous old sinner!

Question 16

What is a quote about Scrooge controlling Christmas spirit

Answer 16

“The clerk’s fire was so small that it looked like one coal”

Question 17

Quote from Scrooge at the end in contrast to the start

Answer 17

“I am as happy as an angel,I am as merry as a school boy”

Question 18

Quote from Scrooge talking about his new beggining and in contrast to Stave 2 when talking to belle

Answer 18

I’m quite a baby (Jesus Christ was a baby,shows new birth in christ)

Question 19

Quote from Scrooge talking about the only thing he values and how Christmas isn’t important

Answer 19

“A time for paying bills without money;a time for finding yourself a year older,and not an hour richer,a time for balancing your books

Question 20

Funny quote from Scrooge in Stave one

Answer 20

Every idiot who goes around with ‘Merry Christmas’ on their lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a Stake of Holly through his heart

Question 21

Quote from Fred in contrast to Scrooge

Answer 21

Although it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket,I believe that it has done me good and will do me good and I say,God bless it

Question 22

Quote showing the Clerk as poorer than Scrooge but richer in Christmas spirit

Answer 22

Who,cold as he was,was warmer than Scrooge for he returned them Cordially (talking about Christmas blessings,Clerk is cold from the small fire however is warm in spirit)

Question 23

Quote showing view of Rich on poor from Scrooge

Answer 23

I can’t afford to make idle people merry

Question 24

Quote showing a personification of God but it can’t see Scrooge due to the darkness that surrounds him

Answer 24

The ancient tower of a church…was always peeping down slyly at him

Question 25

2 Quotes showing how the poor bring Christmas spirit

Answer 25

The fog and darkness thickened so that people ran about with flaring links

Labourers were repairing the gas pipes and had lighted a great fire in a Brazier

Question 26

Quote about Scrooge’s house and how he has no Christmas spirit

Answer 26

Darkness was cheap and Scrooge liked it

Question 27

Quote from the book about Scrooge trying to push down Christmas Spirit however it’s already gotten in

Answer 27

Though Scrooge pushed with all his might he could not hide the light

Question 28

What was the 1834 poor law and how does it relate to ACC

Answer 28

It was a law passed that said if you were unemployed you should work in a workhouse otherwise you would be jailed,Dickens was heavily against this and hinted at it in the quote “are there no prisons,are there no workhouses”

Question 29

Oxymoron showing the poverty of the cratchits however also the hapiness of them being together

Answer 29

“A small pudding for a large family”

Question 30

Quote from Tiny Tim with religious imagery showing how he is still grateful even through his illness,also last line in book,significant

Answer 30

“God bless us everyone”

Question 31

Quote about Ignorance and Want and their description

Answer 31

Yellow,meagre,ragged,scowling,wolfish…where graceful youth should’ve filled their features out…a stale and shrivveled hand like that of age had pinched and twisted them and pulled them into shreds

Question 32

Quote from fezziwig showing his personality

Answer 32

Yo ho my boys,no more work tonight.Christmas eve

Question 33

Quote showing Scrooge being scared of the ghost of christmas yet to come

Answer 33

Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him

Question 34

Promise from Scrooge about christmas at the end

Answer 34

I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year,I will live in the past present and future

Question 35

Positive non-sensical language at the end of the story

Answer 35

Hallo here whoop Hallo!

Question 36

Quote from marley about the treatment of him in the afterlife

Answer 36

Incessant torture