A Christmas Carol Quotes

Question 1

Doesn’t like to let go of his money

Answer 1

‘He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’

Question 2

Lots of adjectives describing scrooge

Answer 2

‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner’

Question 3

Very lonely but has a surprise that can be released

Answer 3

‘Solitary as an oyster’

Question 4

Can hurt people but can also be used as a light

Answer 4

‘Hard and sharp as flint’

Question 5

He is so evil that that darkness froze him

Answer 5

‘The cold within him froze his old features’

Question 6

He was always a cold man

Answer 6

‘He carried his own low temperature always’

Question 7

He was so cold it froze everything

Answer 7

‘He iced his office’

Question 8

A fairy tail story

Answer 8

‘Once upon a time’

Question 9

Very untrusting

Answer 9

‘He might keep am eye on his clerk’

Question 10

Scrooge was very selfish

Answer 10

‘Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fore was so very much smaller like one coal’

Question 11

Once it was gone it couldn’t come back

Answer 11

‘He couldn’t replenish it’

Question 12

He kept all his belongings to himself

Answer 12

‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’

Question 13

He seemed happy

Answer 13

‘he was all in a glow’

Question 14

His eyes were like stars

Answer 14

‘his eyes sparkled’

Question 15

The word scrooge says when someone says merry christmas

Answer 15

‘Bah!…Humbug!’

Question 16

Scrooge thinks he is a better person now

Answer 16

‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’

Question 17

Fred likes christmas

Answer 17

‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’

Question 18

Where scrooge thinks the poor people should go

Answer 18

‘Are there no prisons?’

Question 19

Scrooge meets Want

Answer 19

‘We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is
keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’

Question 20

Nothing

Answer 20

‘Nothing!’

Question 21

Scrooge hopes the poor die

Answer 21

‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the
surplus population’

Question 22

Not involved

Answer 22

‘It’s not my business’

Question 23

Bad weather

Answer 23

‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’

Question 24

The weather was cold

Answer 24

‘The cold became intense’

Question 25

There were lots of poor people in the area

Answer 25

‘Had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged
men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their
eyes before the blaze in rapture’

Question 26

Scrooge says that bob is stealing from him

Answer 26

‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’

Question 27

Bob is quite childish

Answer 27

‘The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’.

Question 28

Scrooge is a very sad man at home

Answer 28

‘Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’

Question 29

Scrooge doesn’t believe he sees Marley

Answer 29

‘Marley was dead, to begin with’.

Question 30

Scrooge is very lonely

Answer 30

sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’

Question 31

The knocker had changed

Answer 31

‘not a knocker, but Marley’s face’

Question 32

Scrooge likes to keep things cheap

Answer 32

‘Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it’.

Question 33

Marley was tied up

Answer 33

‘The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’

Question 34

Marley was tied up by the things he loved the most

Answer 34

‘It was long…made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and
heavy purses wrought in steel’.

Question 35

Scrooge and Marley were close friends

Answer 35

‘In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley’