christmas carol character quotes

Question 1

stave 1 scrooge taking about being marlyes sole

Answer 1

Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner

Question 2

stave 1

frost head

Answer 2

A frosty rime above his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin

Question 3

stave 1

description of Fred

Answer 3

his face was ruddy and handsome: his eyes sparkeld, and his breath smoked again

Question 4

stave 1

why the portly gentlemen come round

Answer 4

Many thousand are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts

Question 5

stave 1

scrooge asking why the poor aren’t being helped

Answer 5

Are there no prisions
and the union workhouses
the treadmill and the poor law are in full vigour, then?

Question 6

stave 1

scrooge after work

Answer 6

scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern

Question 7

stave 1

signs of Marleys ghost

Answer 7

saw in the knocker not a knocker but Marley’s face

thought he saw a locomotive hearse going on before him in the gloom

Question 8

stave 2

appearance of the ghost of christmas past

Answer 8

its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare

tunic of the purest white

held a branch of fresh green holly

Question 9

stave 2

description of Fizziwig

Answer 9

called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice

fuel was heaped upon the fire

Question 10

stave 2

fezziwig dancing

Answer 10

but if they had been twice as many ah four times fezziwig would have been a match for them

Question 11

stave 2

fizziwig saying goodbye at the party

Answer 11

shaking hands with every person individually

Question 12

stave 2

fizziwig being god

Answer 12

he has the power to render us happy or unhappy

Question 13

stave 2

being displaced

Answer 13

what idol has displaced you? he rejoined
a golden one

are contract is an old one

Question 14

stave 2

what could have been with belle

Answer 14

having his daughter leaning fondly on him, sat down with her and her mother at his own fireside

Question 15

stave 3

description of ghost of Christmas present

Answer 15

it was clothed in one simple deep green robe, or mantle, boarded with white fur

holly wreath

but no sword in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten with rust

Question 16

stave 3

dress of miss crachit

Answer 16

Then up rose Mrs Cratchit, Cratchit’s wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap

Question 17

stave 3

ing verbs describing the crachits

Answer 17

plunged
rejoiced
tearing
screaming
bubbling

Question 18

stave 3

team work of the crachits

Answer 18

young cratchits went to fetch the goose

Mrs Crachit made the gravy

Master peter mashed the potatoes

Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple sauce

Question 19

stave 3

description of want and ignorance

Answer 19

wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable

Question 20

stave 3 ignorance and want

Answer 20

where graceful youth should have filled their features

they are man’s

Question 21

stave 5

chuckling

Answer 21

The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the turkey, and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab, and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy

Question 22

stave 5

lighting up the fire

Answer 22

Make up the fires and buy another coal-scuttle

Question 23

stave 5

helping tiny tim

Answer 23

he did it all and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim who did not die, he was a second father

Question 24

stave 5

laughing heart

Answer 24

His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him

Question 25

stave 4 | disgusting gentle men

Answer 25

i don't mind going if lunch is provided

Question 26

stave 4 | frightened away people

Answer 26

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

Question 27

stave 4 thankful family

Answer 27

she was thankful in her soul to hear it hearts were lighter

Question 28

stave 4 | memorys of tim

Answer 28

i have known him walk with Tiny Tim upon his shoulder very fast

Question 29

stave 4 | tiny tims grave

Answer 29

done you good to see how green a place it is He broke down all at once

Question 30

stave 4 | scrooges grave

Answer 30

walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying

Question 31

stave 4 | begging it not to be him

Answer 31

No, spirt! oh, no, no!

Question 32

stave 1 describing scrooge

Answer 32

squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner

Question 33

stave 1 scrooge the oster

Answer 33

solitary as a oyster

Question 34

stave 1 killing poor scrooge

Answer 34

if they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population

Question 35

stave 5 similes of feather

Answer 35

i am as light as a feather, i am as merry as a school girl

Question 36

stave 4 honouring christmas

Answer 36

i will honour christmas in my heart, i will live in the past, the present, and the future. i will not shut out the lessons that they teach

Question 37

stave 2 light of the ghost

Answer 37

would you so soon put out...the light i give?

Question 38

stave 2 neglected at school

Answer 38

a solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still - scrooge sobbed

Question 39

stave 2 his nephew

Answer 39

one child: true! your nephew!

Question 40

stave 2 scrooge at fezziwigs

Answer 40

scrooge's heart and soul were in the scene...he remebered everything, enjoyed everything

Question 41

stave 3 ghost and tourch

Answer 41

a jolly giant who bore a glowing tourch with a cheery voice and a joyful air

Question 42

stave 2 scrooge the ogre

Answer 42

scrooge was the ogre of the family and the mention of his name cast a dark shadow

Question 43

stave 3 allogery creatures

Answer 43

they are mans. this boy is ignorance. this girl is want. beware for i see that written which is doom

Question 44

stave 4 description of ghost

Answer 44

deep black garment which conceled its head, its face, its form and left nothing visible execept one hand

Question 45

stave 4 looking at the grave

Answer 45

scrooge crept towards it, trembling, and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected arave his own name

Question 46

stave 5 asking for dinner

Answer 46

i have come to dinner will you let me in fred?

Question 47

stave 1 little coal

Answer 47

the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like only one coal!

Question 48

stave 1 chains of marley

Answer 48

i wear the chain i forged in life....the chain was made up of cash boxes...ledgers...heavy purses

Question 49

stave 5 being better than his word

Answer 49

scrooge was better than his word. he did it all and became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city know

Question 50

stave 3 mrs cratchit angry at scrooge

Answer 50

mr scrooge. i'd give him a peice of my mind. an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man

Question 51

stave 2 losing aspirations and angry at ghost

Answer 51

i have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, until the master passion, gain engrosses you no more show me no more!

Question 52

stave 2 bring scrooge home

Answer 52

i have come to bring you home dear brother ...home home home you are quite a woman little fan

Question 53

stave 2 seeing fezz again

Answer 53

bless his heart; it's fezziwig alive again!

Question 54

stave 1 why are you in a bad mood

Answer 54

what reason have you to be romorse? you're rich enought

Question 55

stave 1 what fred thinks of christmas

Answer 55

i have always thought of christmas as a good time. a kind, forgiving, charitable pleasant time