A Christmas Cock

Question 1

No warmth ….

Answer 1

No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him

Question 2

What reason …

Answer 2

“What reason have you to be merry, your poor enough”

Question 3

“But though Scrooge pressed…

Answer 3

“But though Scrooge pressed it down with all his force, he could not hide the light.”

Question 4

I am the ghost …

Answer 4

“I am the ghost of Christmas present […] look upon me”

Question 5

“Who suffers …”

Answer 5

“Who suffers by his ill whims! himself, always”

Question 6

“It was a worthy place”

Answer 6

Scrooges horrible nature echoes his celebration after death. Beloved bad people shouldn’t be mounted

Question 7

People who hold onto their wealth

Answer 7

Miser

Question 8

Miser

Answer 8

People who hold onto their wealth

Question 9

“I will honour Christmas […] The Spirits of all Three …

Answer 9

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”

Question 10

“Reflect upon your …

Answer 10

“Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

Question 11

when men and women seem…

Answer 11

when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave

Question 12

though it has never…
(Fred Stave 1)

Answer 12

though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good

Question 13

Mankind…
(Marley stave 1)

Answer 13

Mankind was my business. T

Question 14

The dealings of my trade were…
(Marley stave 1)

Answer 14

The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!‘”

Question 15

excellent man of business…
(About Scrooge opening Stave1
1)

Answer 15

excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.”

Question 16

They are Man’s . . .
(GOC present stave 3)

Answer 16

They are Man’s . . . And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers

Question 17

beware this boy…
(GOC Present end of stave 3)

Answer 17

beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”

Question 18

If these shadows…
(GOC Present tiny Tim)

Answer 18

If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”

Question 19

“I’ll give you…
( Bob cratchit stave 3 )

Answer 19

“I’ll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!”

Question 20

“But if the courses…
( Scrooge stave 4)

Answer 20

“But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!”

Question 21

There’s more of…
(Scrooge Stave 1 to Marley)

Answer 21

There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”

Question 22

There is nothing on…
(Scrooge towards the end about poverty and wealth )

Answer 22

There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!”