Christmas carol

Question 1

Children, symbolic, poverty

Answer 1

Boy is ignorance, girl is want

Question 2

Poverty motif, dickens attacking Malthusian theory, Darwinist social belief, disregard for others wellbeing

Answer 2

If they would rather die… decrease the surplus population

Question 3

Bob office, poverty

Answer 3

Dismal little cell

Question 4

Bob - Tiny Tim dead, repetition

Answer 4

My little little child

Question 5

London poorest areas, metaphor juxtaposition

Answer 5

Bowels of the earth… cheerful company around a glowing fire

Question 6

Belle - Scrooge, wealth

Answer 6

Another idol has displaced me

Question 7

Scrooge - money, sadness but likes it

Answer 7

Darkness was cheap and Scrooge likes it

Question 8

Fred, compassion, simile, sibilance, fortune

Answer 8

Happiness he gives is quite as great as if cost a fortune

Question 9

Personification from narrator

Answer 9

Contagious as laughter

Question 10

Scrooge, change, hyperbole, exclamation, religion

Answer 10

Thank you 50 times! Bless you!

Question 11

Tiny Tim, innocence, faith despite illness

Answer 11

God bless us everyone

Question 12

Bob, content despite poverty, repetition

Answer 12

I am very happy, very happy indeed sir

Question 13

Bob about Scrooge, contrast despite mistreatment

Answer 13

Mr. Scrooge founder of the feast

Question 14

Metaphor, religion, light, holiday,

Answer 14

Golden sunlight, heavenly sky, merry bells

Question 15

Onomatopoeia, family, love

Answer 15

Clang, clash, glorious glorious

Question 16

Scrooge, redemption of ignorance

Answer 16

I will not be the man i must have been

Question 17

Food list, context, contrast to Scrooge

Answer 17

Turkey, barrels of oysters

Question 18

Hyperbole, music motif, similie

Answer 18

Orchestra tuned like 50 stomachs

Question 19

Marley warnings of selfishness and greed, burdens of actions, consequences

Answer 19

Mankind was my business… my business, i wear the chain i forged in life

Question 20

Scrooge misery, light, contrast to poor, ghost 2

Answer 20

Begged him to be covered

Question 21

Past, Scrooge alone, verb, except for fan embracing (only love as a child) she died like dickens sister due to illness

Answer 21

Solitary child, neglected by his friends

Question 22

Scrooge similie, selfish closed of nature, consequence of money

Answer 22

Hard and sharp as a flint, solitary as an oyster

Question 23

Rhetorical question, Scrooge, poverty

Answer 23

Are there no prisons, are there no workhouses?

Question 24

Scrooge change, religion, similies, joy comes from generosity, embracin

Answer 24

As light as a feather, as happy as an angle, as merry as a schoolboy