A Christmas Carol - Stave 1 Flashcards
1
Q
Dickens describes Scrooge
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“Hard and sharp as flint”
“Solitary as an oyster”
“A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!”
2
Q
Fred comes to visit scrooge and invite him to the Christmas dinner that scrooge declines. Fred describes christmas as:
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“A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time”
3
Q
Charity collectors visit
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“Are there no prisons?… Workhouses?”
“Decrease the surplus population”
4
Q
Scrooge is cruel to Bob seen through the work conditions
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“one coal”
“dismal litte cell
5
Q
Scrooge sees Marley’s face, and his house is…
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“Darkness is cheap and scrooge liked it”
6
Q
Marley tells him that he will have 3 visitors
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“Mankind was my business”
“I wear the chain I forged in life”
“Yours is a ponderous one”
