Christmas Carol - Context Vocabulary

Question 1

The traditional/ typical idea of a concept, Scrooge at the beginning is an archetypal villain.

Answer 1

Archetype

Question 2

Laws prohibiting leisure on Sundays.

Answer 2

Blue Laws

Question 3

During the Victorian era the word ‘bob’ was often used as a slang word for ‘shilling’.

Answer 3

Bob

Question 4

Relief derived from releasing repressed emotions.

Answer 4

Catharsis

Question 5

An economic system based on private ownership.

Answer 5

Capitalism

Question 6

Similar to an accountant’s office.

Answer 6

Counting house

Question 7

Synonymous with jealousy.

Answer 7

Covetous

Question 8

A prison someone goes to when they owe money, Dickens father spent some time there.

Answer 8

Debtors Prison

Question 9

Someone who breaks social norms and values.

Answer 9

Deviant

Question 10

An expression of distaste.

Answer 10

Humbug

Question 11

This was when the means of production of Britain switched from agriculture to industry.

Answer 11

Industrial Revolution

Question 12

Thomas Malthus was an economist in Victorian times and believed that London was overpopulated and so poverty would be inevitable as food supplies and housing would not be enough to sustain the growing city population.

Answer 12

Malthusian Economics

Question 13

A person who dislikes other people.

Answer 13

Misanthropic

Question 14

Awareness of the principles of right and wrong conduct.

Answer 14

Moral

Question 15

Cut off from society.

Answer 15

Ostracised

Question 16

Someone who reports on governmental issues, Dickens was a parliamentary judge which may be why he was so socially aware.

Answer 16

Parliamentary Journalist

Question 17

An act of helping those less well off than yourself, especially involving donations of money.

Answer 17

Philanthropy

Question 18

A Victorian science which studied bumps on the skull to predict mental traits, which has now been disproved and is regarded as pseudoscience (fake science)

Answer 18

Phrenology

Question 19

This is a Medieval Christian belief which is a prison, a sort of limbo between hell and life, in which you are given another chance and supposed to be made ready for Heaven. Marley’s Ghost lives in the “incessant torture”.

Answer 19

Purgatory

Question 20

Schools which provided basic education and provided for children who lived in poverty, Dickens was a contributor of these.

Answer 20

Ragged Schools

Question 21

A religious belief that it is a sin to work on Sunday as it is the Lord’s day.

Answer 21

Sabbatarianism

Question 22

An economic system based on shared ownership.

Answer 22

Socialism

Question 23

A transformation from one thing to another.

Answer 23

Transmorphism

Question 24

This was a means of production in which was used to produce flour as the workers would walk the wheel.

Answer 24

Treadmill

Question 25

These were apart of the Gilbert Act which allowed parishes to join together to become responsible for the workhouses.

Answer 25

Union workhouses

Question 26

A system of welfare which introduced workhouses.

Answer 26

1834 Poor Law

Question 27

Children have to be 9 years old to work and had to have basic education.

Answer 27

1833 Factory Act on Child Labour