ACC - All important quotes

Question 1

S1 Quotes for Scrooge’s inital introduction, including the introduction of Bob’s working conditions.

Answer 1

1. ‘Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up’ by Marleys Death
2. ‘Covetous old sinner’
3. ‘hard and sharp as flint’
4. ‘Soldier as an oyster’
5. ‘carried his low temperature about with him’
6. ‘Scrooge never did’

Question 2

S1 The introduction of Bob’s bleak working conditions.

Answer 2

7. ‘dismal little cell’
8. ‘clerks fire was so very smaller’

Question 3

S1 Quotes from Fred initally visiting Scrooge.

Answer 3

9. ‘all in a glow, his face was ruddy and handsome’
10. ‘what reason have you to be merry, your poor enough’
11. ‘but a time for paying bills, …. Not an hour richer’
12. ‘a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time’
13. ‘thought it has never put a scrap of gold… done me good,..god bless it’
14. ‘don’t be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow’
15. ‘why did you get married… love….ridiculous’
16. ‘why cannot we be friends?’

Question 4

S1 Quotes from Scrooge with the portly gentlemen, Bob about taking Christmas off and Scrooge’s quarters.

Answer 4

17. ‘I cant afford to make idle people merry’
18. ‘if they would rather die….decrese the surplus population’
19. ‘clerk promised he would’
20. ‘melancholy…. Melancholy tavern’

Question 5

S1 Quotes from the visit of Marley’s ghost.

Answer 5

21. ‘I wear the chains I forged in life’
22. ‘you have laboured on it….ponderous chain’
23. ‘makind was my business’
24. ‘to warn you…chance of escaping my fate’

Question 6

S2 Quotes introducing the Ghost of Christmas past, and where we see Scrooge as a child.

Answer 6

1. ‘It was a strange figure like child: yet not so like a child… of forest white’
2. ‘Good heaven!… I was a boy here!’
3. ‘Your lip is trembling.’
4. ‘with an unusual catching in his voice’
5. ‘strange to have forgotten it for so many years!’
6. ‘a solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still … and he sobbed’
7. ‘poor forgotten self… not a clicking in the fire’

Question 7

S2 Quotes where Scrooge recollects Ali Baba and the carol singer.

Answer 7

8. ‘Why is its Ali Baba! Scrooge exclaimed in ecstasy.’
9. ‘with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character’
10. ‘there was a boy… should like to have given him something that’s all’

Question 8

S2 Quotes from where Fan takes Scrooge home and Fezziwig’s party. +fred as fans son

Answer 8

11. ‘Dear dear brother… were to be together all Christmas long… merriest time’
12. ‘she died a woman… had children… your nephew’
13. ‘Why its old Fezziwig! Bless his heart’
14. ‘Yo ho my boys! No more work tonight … more dances, and there was cake’
15. ‘shaking hands with every person individually…wishing merry Christmas’
16. ‘Scrooge had acted like a man out of his wits’
17. ‘A small matter…to make these silly folks so full of gratitude’
18. ‘he has the power to render us happy or unhappy’
19. ‘I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now. That’s all’

Question 9

S2 Quotes from Scrooge seeing Belle leave him, and her happy with her new family.

Answer 9

20. ‘begun to wear the signs of avarice’
21. ‘another idol has displaced me.. a golden’
22. ‘we were both poor and content to be so… you are changed’
23. ‘may you be happy in the life you have chosen!’
24. ‘sprit! Show me no more! Why do you delight to torture me?’
25. ‘near to the winter fire…laughed heartily…’
26. ‘I saw an old friend of yours… Quite alone in the world’
27. ‘Spirit, he said in a broken voice, remove me from this place I cannot bear it!’

Question 10

S3 Quotes where the ghost of Christmas present is introduced, and we are shown the general streets of London on Christmas day.

Answer 10

1. ‘a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney’
2. ‘a jolly giant…cheery voice’
3. ‘sky was gloomy…sooty…chimneys… blazing away’
4. ‘air of cheerfulness abroad’
5. ‘Grocer and his people were so frank and fresh…polished hearts’
6. ‘to a poor one… needs it most’
7. ‘ill will, hatred, envy, bigotry, selfishness, their doings on themselves, not us’

Question 11

S3 Quotes from where we see the Cratchit family’s celebration

Answer 11

8. ‘twice turned gown but brave in ribons’
9. ‘danced about the table…the fire’
10. ‘kissing her a dozen times…ran into his arms’
11. ‘universal admiration… God bless us every one’
12. ‘I give you Mr Scrooge the Founder of the feast!’
13. ‘how many hours she worked at a stretch’
14. ‘they were not a handsome family.. but happy, grateful, please, contented’

Question 12

S3 Quotes from where Scrooge sees Tiny Tim

Answer 12

12. ‘Spirit…tell me if Tiny Tim will live’
13. ‘If the shadows remain unaltered… the child will die’
14. ‘he had better do it…decrease the surplus population’
15. ‘overcome with penitence and grief’

Question 13

S3 Quotes which shows more of the general streets of London and Christmas cheer.

Answer 13

19. ‘a place where miners live, who labour’
20. ‘had made a fire… wishing each other Happy Christmas’ (people at dock)

Question 14

S3 Quotes from where we look at Christmas at Fred’s house

Answer 14

21. ‘approving affability…contagious as laugher, good humour’
22. ‘his offences carry their own punishment…I’m sorry for him’
23. ‘clustered round the fire’
24. ‘I mean to give to give him the same chance every year’

Question 15

S3 Quotes from where Scrooge sees ignorace and want.

Answer 15

25. ‘spirit stood beside sick beds… cheerful’ (not ignorance and want, separate)
26. ‘where graceful youth should have been… stale shrivelled hand’
27. ‘they are mans.. Ignorance and Want’
28. ‘have they no refuge or resource?’
29. Spirit says ‘Are there no prisons or workhouses?’

Question 16

S4 Quotes from where the Ghost of Christmas yet to come is introduced

Answer 16

1. ‘shrouded in a deep black garment, concealed its head’
2. ‘mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread’
3. ‘found his legs trembled…filled him with horror’
4. ‘I hope to live to be another man from what I was’

Question 17

S4 Quotes from where we see a man has died, and people talk about him.

Answer 17

5. ‘he died… I don’t know of anybody to go to it’
6. ‘why wasn’t he.. in his lifetime?’
7. ‘If he had been, he’d have somebody…when he was struck with death’
8. ‘I see, the case of this unhappy man might be my own’
9. ‘If this main could be raised up now… avarice, hard dealing… brought him to a rich end’

Question 18

S4 Quotes from where Scrooge sees of the effects the mans death had, and Tiny Tims death had

Answer 18

10. ‘Spirit I understand … If any person in the town, feels emotion from his death… show me’
11. ‘He is dead…so merciless a creditor… hearts were lighter’
12. ‘my little, little child! Cried bob. My little child’
13. ‘extraordinary kindness of Scrooge’s nephew, I am heartily sorry for it If I can be of service to you in any way, he said’

Question 19

S4 Quotes where Scrooge has realised the coffin was his.

Answer 19

14. ‘Spirit, he cried, hear me! I am not the man I was’
15. ‘I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year’
16. ‘The Spirit of all three shall strive within me.’

Question 20

S5 Quotes from where Scrooge give the Cratchits a Turkey and goes to Fred

Answer 20

1. ‘Go and buy it… I’ll give you a shilling!’
2. ‘I’ll send it to Bob Cratchits!… I shall live it as long as I live’
3. ‘If you please… Not a farthing less… Bless you!’
4. ‘It is I… Will you let me in, Fred?’
5. ‘Wonderful part, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, wonderful happiness!’

Question 21

S5 Quotes where Scrooge gives Bob a raise, and the final ‘resolution’.

Answer 21

6. ‘A merry Christmas Bob!… Ill raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family.’
7. ‘Scrooge was better than his word’
8. ‘and to tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father’