Christmas Charol

Question 1

Horrible person

Answer 1

‘A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!

Question 2

Tight with money

Answer 2

He was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone

Question 3

Hard exterior with good on the inside

Answer 3

Solitary as an oyster

Question 4

Hard but also brittle

Answer 4

hard and sharp as flint

Question 5

He stopped himself

Answer 5

The cold within him froze his old features

Question 6

He was always cold

Answer 6

He carried his own low temperature always

Question 7

He doesn’t use a lot of coal

Answer 7

he iced his office

Question 8

The beginning of a story tale

Answer 8

Once upon a time

Question 9

He has no trust on his clerk

Answer 9

he might keep an eye on his clerk

Question 10

Showing his christmas spirit

Answer 10

Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked
like one coal

Question 11

No trust or sharing

Answer 11

He couldnt replenish it

Question 12

Scrooge doesnt trust bob

Answer 12

Scrooge kept the coal box in his own room

Question 13

Fog

Answer 13

The fog came pouring in…’

Question 14

Fred talking to scrooge

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Talking about fred

Answer 15

He was all in a glow

Question 16

Talking about a face

Answer 16

His eyes sparkled

Question 17

Scrooges line

Answer 17

Bah! Humbug

Question 18

He believes its done him good

Answer 18

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

Question 19

They will keep their humor

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Prisons

Answer 20

‘Are there no prisons?’

Question 21

A time when want is felt

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Nothing

Answer 22

Nothing

Question 23

Surplus population

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Hes not interested

Answer 24

‘It’s not my business’

Question 25

It got dark and gloomy

Answer 25

‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’

Question 26

It got really cold

Answer 26

‘The cold became intense’

Question 27

The great fire with men and boys

Answer 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 28

Accusing bob of stealing

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Bob went down a slide

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Scrooge had a boring dinner

Answer 30

Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’

Question 31

Marley is dead

Answer 31

‘Marley was dead, to begin with’.

Question 32

Scrooge is sole

Answer 32

sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’

Question 33

The door knocker

Answer 33

not a knocker, but Marley’s face’

Question 34

Darkness being cheap

Answer 34

Darkness is cheap and scrooge liked it

Question 35

The chain

Answer 35

The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’

Question 36

Talking about marleys chain

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Jacob marley intorducing himself to scrooge

Answer 37

In life i was your partner, jacob marley

Question 38

Doomed to wander

Answer 38

Condemned’ ‘Doomed to wander through the world’

Question 39

Talking anout the chain in life

Answer 39

I wear the chain I forged in life’

Question 40

Talking about making the chain

Answer 40

I made it link by link’

Question 41

Would you know

Answer 41

Would you know the weight and length of the strong coil you bear
yourself?’

Question 42

Mankind and business

Answer 42

Mankind was my business