Christmas Carol Stave 1 Part 2

Question 1

Fog

Answer 1

‘the fog came pouring in’

Question 2

Merry christmas

Answer 2

“A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’

Question 3

Glow

Answer 3

’ he was all in a glow’

Question 4

Sparkled

Answer 4

’ his eyes sparkled ‘

Question 5

Scrooge is famous line in stave 1

Answer 5

’ Bah!….Humbug!’

Question 6

Done me good

Answer 6

‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’

Question 7

Keep christmas

Answer 7

‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’

Question 8

Scrooge question

Answer 8

‘Are there no prisons?’

Question 9

Charitable collections

Answer 9

21.‘We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is
keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’

Question 10

Scrooges response

Answer 10

22.‘Nothing!’

Question 11

Population

Answer 11

23.‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the
surplus population’

Question 12

Business

Answer 12

24.‘It’s not my business’

Question 13

Fog and darkness

Answer 13

25.‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’

Question 14

Cold

Answer 14

26.‘The cold became intense’

Question 15

Lighted

Answer 15

27.‘Had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged
men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their
eyes before the blaze in rapture’

Question 16

Poor excuse

Answer 16

28.‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’

Question 17

Camden Town

Answer 17

29.‘The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’.

Question 18

Melancholy dinner

Answer 18

30.‘Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’

Question 19

Marley was dead

Answer 19

31.‘Marley was dead, to begin with’.

Question 20

Sole

Answer 20

32.‘sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’

Question 21

Knocker

Answer 21

33.‘not a knocker, but Marley’s face’

Question 22

Darkness is

Answer 22

34.‘Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it’.

Question 23

Chain

Answer 23

35.‘The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’

Question 24

describing the chain

Answer 24

36.‘It was long…made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and
heavy purses wrought in steel’.