ACC quotes

Question 1

Scrooge talking about it being near impossible to provide for your family and have a good christmas at the same time.

Answer 1

“15 shillings a week and a wife and family talking about a merry christmas. I’ll retire to bedlam”

Question 2

scrooge is hard and cold on the outside but when he opens up he is warm and love filled inside.

Answer 2

“As solitary as an oyster”

Question 3

What did the narrator say about Scrooge that described his personality in the first stave

Answer 3

“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone.”

Question 4

Scrooge says this to the charity men about the poor

Answer 4

“If they had rather die…they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.”

Question 5

What did Marley’s ghost say to Scrooge about his business

Answer 5

“Mankind was my business.”

Question 6

What did the ghost of christmas past say to Scrooge about his former self.

Answer 6

“A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.”

Question 7

Ghost of christmas past to Scrooge about fezziwigs party.

Answer 7

“A small matter…to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.”

Question 8

Belle to Scrooge’s former self.

Answer 8

“I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.”

Question 9

What did the Ghost of christmas present to Scrooge about Tiny tim

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What did the ghost of Christmas present say to Scrooge about decisions on others’ lives.

Answer 10

“Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?”

Question 11

What did Fred say to Scrooge’s niece and guests about Scrooge

Answer 11

“His offences carry their own punishment.”

Question 12

What personification did the ghost of Christmas future use when showing Scrooge the children beneath his robe.

Answer 12

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both…”

Question 13

What did the Charwoman say to Joe about the future ‘dead’ Scrooge.

Answer 13

“He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead!”

Question 14

Telling reader the one emotion Scrooge felt during the event.

Answer 14

“The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.”

Question 15

What did Scrooge say to the ghost of Christmas future convincing him that he has changed.

Answer 15

“I am not the man I was.”

Question 16

What did the narrator say what Scrooge was like to Tiny Tim

Answer 16

“To Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.”

Question 17

Marley talking about his punishment

Answer 17

“I wear the chain I forged in life”

Question 18

What did Scrooge say to Fred about how much he hates Christmas

Answer 18

“Any idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding”

Question 19

Scrooge’s cold personality ‘froze’ his face

Answer 19

“The cold within him froze his old features”

Question 20

What did Scrooge say about Fezziwig’s generosity

Answer 20

“He has the power to render us happy or unhappy…the happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune”

Question 21

What did Scrooge say before apologising to Bob Cratchit.

Answer 21

“I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now, that’s all”

Question 22

What was the description of the Cratchit’s family

Answer 22

“They were not a handsome family, they were not well-dressed…but they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time”

Question 23

What were Scrooge’s promises to Bob Cratchit

Answer 23

“I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family”

Question 24

What was Scrooge described like at the end of a Christmas Carol

Answer 24

“He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew”

Question 25

What did Scrooge tell the ghost of Christmas future about changing and what he will do differently.

Answer 25

“I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, Present, and the Future.”

Question 26

Bob’s wife to Bob, regarding not cheering to Scrooge

Answer 26

‘I’ll drink his health for your sake and the Day’s, not for his.’

Question 27

Asked by Old Joe to the house keeper about taking the curtains as Scrooge lay dead

Answer 27

“You don’t mean to say you took’em down, rings and all, with him lying there?”

Question 28

2 charity men asking donations from Scrooge for the poor

Answer 28

“We chose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?”

Question 29

Scrooge using imagery to describe his hatred towards people who enjoy Christmas

Answer 29

“…every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart”

Question 30

Marley warning Scrooge about ghosts

Answer 30

“You will be visited by three spirits.”

Question 31

Ghost of Christmas future to Scrooge saying that if his actions don’t change then Tiny Tim will not love.

Answer 31

“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race will find him Tiny Tim here.”