Christmas Spirit

Question 1

‘Old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, to which no steel had ever struck out generous fire’

Answer 1

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Question 2

‘I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry’

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Question 3

‘The trial in homage to Christmas, and I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last. So A merry Christmas, uncle!’

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Question 4

‘A good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time…where men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely’

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Question 5

‘He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.’

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Question 6

‘Dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap’

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Question 7

How the ghost exulted! How it bared its breadth of breast, and opened its capacious palm, and floated on, outpouring with a generous hand’…‘glorious torch’

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Question 8

‘It would be ungrateful not to drink his health. Here is a glass of mulled wine… Uncle Scrooge’ And ‘Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast’

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Question 9

‘It was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs! I…don’t care. I’d rather be a baby. Hallo!’

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