chritsmas carol half quotes

Question 1

Ebenezer Scrooge - Greed and Selfishness

Answer 1

“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”

“It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s.”

Question 2

Ebenezer Scrooge - Isolation

Answer 2

“I wish to be left alone.”

“Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern.”

Question 3

Ebenezer Scrooge - Redemption

Answer 3

“I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been.”

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

Question 4

Ebenezer Scrooge - Christmas Spirit

Answer 4

“Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding.”

“God bless us, every one!”

Question 5

Ebenezer Scrooge - Social Responsibility

Answer 5

“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

“The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it costs a fortune.”

Question 6

Bob Cratchit - Family

Answer 6

“He ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman’s-buff.”

“I’ll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!”

Question 7

Bob Cratchit - Poverty

Answer 7

“The clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.”

“They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed… but they were happy.”

Question 8

Bob Cratchit - Optimism and Hope

Answer 8

“I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family.”

“As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better.”

Question 9

Bob Cratchit - Christmas Spirit

Answer 9

“A merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!”

“There’s such a goose, Martha!”

Question 10

Bob Cratchit - Social Responsibility

Answer 10

“He hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.”

“My little child! My little child!”

Question 11

Fred - Christmas Spirit

Answer 11

“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!”

“I have always thought of Christmas time… as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.”

Question 12

Fred - Family

Answer 12

“Why cannot we be friends?”

“I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not.”

Question 13

Fred - Optimism and Hope

Answer 13

“His wealth is of no use to him. He doesn’t do any good with it.”

“I pity him; I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried.”

Question 14

Fred - Social Responsibility

Answer 14

“Don’t be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow.”

“I am sorry for him; I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried.”

Question 15

Fred - Redemption

Answer 15

“He was at home in five minutes. Nothing could be heartier.”

“Let him in! It is a mercy he didn’t shake his arm off.”

Question 16

Jacob Marley - Greed and Selfishness

Answer 16

“I wear the chain I forged in life.”

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business.”

Question 17

Jacob Marley - Social Responsibility

Answer 17

“The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”

“Charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business.”

Question 18

Jacob Marley - Redemption

Answer 18

“I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.”

“Without their visits, you cannot hope to shun the path I tread.”

Question 19

Jacob Marley - Guilt and Regret

Answer 19

“Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!”

“No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.”

Question 20

Jacob Marley - The Supernatural

Answer 20

“It is required of every man… that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen.”

“Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down?”

Question 21

Tiny Tim - Family

Answer 21

“God bless us, every one!”

“He hoped the people saw him in the church… it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.”

Question 22

Tiny Tim - Poverty

Answer 22

“Tiny Tim rode upon his shoulder and was as light as a feather.”

“If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die.”

Question 23

Tiny Tim - Optimism and Hope

Answer 23

“He was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.”

“He hoped the people saw him in the church.”

Question 24

Tiny Tim - Innocence

Answer 24

“As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better.”

“He didn’t die; he was as hearty as gold.”

Question 25

Tiny Tim - Social Responsibility

Answer 25

“God bless us, every one!”

“We shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it.”

Question 26

The Three Spirits - Ghost of Christmas Past - Memory and Regret

Answer 26

“Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?”

“These are but shadows of the things that have been.”

Question 27

The Three Spirits - Ghost of Christmas Past - Redemption

Answer 27

“Your lip is trembling. And what is that upon your cheek?”

“I told you these were shadows of the things that have been.”

Question 28

The Three Spirits - Ghost of Christmas Present - Generosity and Joy

Answer 28

“Come in, and know me better, man!”

“A jolly Giant, glorious to see.”

Question 29

The Three Spirits - Ghost of Christmas Present - Social Responsibility

Answer 29

“They are Man’s… And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers.”

“Beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom.”

Question 30

The Three Spirits - Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come - Fear and Consequences

Answer 30

“The Spirit was immovable as ever.”

“The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again.”

Question 31

The Three Spirits - Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come - Redemption

Answer 31

“Am I that man who lay upon the bed?”

“Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me.”