English GCSE

Question 1

Shows that Scrooge is a harsh,evil character who is rough with his money.

Answer 1

‘He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone’

Question 2

Suggests that Scrooge is a very lonely character who doesn’t talk to anyone.

Answer 2

‘Solitary as an oyster’

Question 3

Shows that Scrooge is hard to open and will never change his ways.

Answer 3

‘Hard and sharp as flint’

Question 4

Scrooge doesn’t trust Bob Cratchit

Answer 4

‘he might keep an eye on his clerk’

Question 5

A list of adjectives showing Scrooge’s hatred towards Christmas.

Answer 5

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

Question 6

A fairytale starting

Answer 6

‘Once upon a time’

Question 7

Scrooge has a better fire than Bob.

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Scrooge couldn’t fill up his fire.

Answer 8

‘He couldn’t replenish it’

Question 9

Scrooge made the decision, over a lifetime, not to allow external forces to influence his feelings or behaviour.

Answer 9

‘He carried his own low temperature always’

Question 10

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.

Answer 10

‘he iced his office’

Question 11

he’s tight-fisted and doesn’t want to spend any more money than he must on keeping the place warm.

Answer 11

‘Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room’

Question 12

Shows that its not the weather affecting Scrooge its how cold he is inside.

Answer 12

‘The cold within him froze his old features’

Question 13

‘The fog came pouring in…’

Answer 13

The writer uses pathetic fallacy to create a desolate and stark atmosphere in the extract

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Fred loves to celebrate Christmas with his uncle Scrooge.

Question 15

‘he was all in a glow’

Answer 15

This quote shows that Fred is definitely ready for Christmas

Question 16

‘his eyes sparkled’

Answer 16

Fred loves Christmas

Question 17

‘Bah!…Humbug!’

Answer 17

Scrooge hates Christmas.

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Could suggest that Christmas could change the ways of Scrooge.

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Everything he says focuses on the positive aspects of Christmas.

Question 20

Rhetorical question

Answer 20

‘Are there no prisons?

Question 21

It is a time to give money to the poor.

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Scrooge’s response to how much he’ll donate.

Answer 22

‘Nothing!’

Question 23

Scrooge means that by dying the population of London will decrease.

Answer 23

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

Question 24

It’s not Scrooge’s place to interfere with other people’s lives.

Answer 24

‘It’s not my business’

Question 25

The weather getting worser.

Answer 25

‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’

Question 26

The cold became cooler.

Answer 26

'The cold became intense’

Question 27

How people celebrate Christmas.

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

Demonstrating Scrooge's initial attitude towards Christmas and it is this attitude that needs to change.

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Bob possesses a childlike appreciation of innocent fun—which may be, in part, why he is such a good father.

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Scrooge is usually sad.

Answer 30

'Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’

Question 31

We need to know that Marley is dead so we believe in his ghost when it appears.

Answer 31

'Marley was dead, to begin with’.

Question 32

Scrooge and Marley were sole friends

Answer 32

‘sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’

Question 33

Instead of the door knocker, Scrooge sees Marley's face. Marley's face is not shadowed, like the rest of the objects in the yard, but is strangely illuminated. The expression on this disembodied face is neither angry nor violent; it looks just as Marley was apt to look when he was alive.

Answer 33

'not a knocker, but Marley’s face’

Question 34

This shows that Scrooge is mysterious and nyctophilic this means that he loves darkness.

Answer 34

'Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it’.

Question 35

Scrooge will learn that the chain serves as Marley’s punishment. As those things were his only concern in life, Marley must carry them now and forever.

Answer 35

'The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’

Question 36

Marley looks like he did in life except that he now appears transparent and wears a chain of items related to his business.

Answer 36

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

Question 37

It suggests that Marley and Scrooge were good partners in business.

Answer 37

‘In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley’

Question 38

Explicit

Answer 38

The feeling or thought clearly stated by the writer

Question 39

implicit

Answer 39

The feeling/thought implied by the tone and language used.

Question 40

Simile

Answer 40

A comparison showing the similarity between two quite different things,stating that one is like the other. For example,'His hand was like ice'

Question 41

Bathos

Answer 41

An abrupt transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace,producing a humorous effect.

Question 42

Personification

Answer 42

Giving something non-human,human qualities or emotions