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Question 1

What does dickens want in the book

Answer 1

He wants his readers decent wages to their domestic staff

Question 2

Domestic staff meaning

Answer 2

Servant

Question 3

Dickens tells the readers to be?

Answer 3

Charitable thats why he linked it to christmas

Question 4

What did dickens do for edication

Answer 4

He set up ragged schools for the poor cause only rich could go. Wants readers to support education

Question 5

Didactic text meaning

Answer 5

A text that tries to teach a moral lesson

Question 6

Malthusian economics meaning

Answer 6

Population grows faster than the food supply until disease/war reduces population

Question 7

Poor laws

Answer 7

Society made the workhouses to reduce poor population

Question 8

Society

Answer 8

Criminalises the poor with “are there no prisons”

Question 9

Bob

Answer 9

Is another word for a shilling and the book was also a shilling

Question 10

Scrooge =

Answer 10

Voice of society

Question 11

Dickens published the book expensively because?

Answer 11

It was targetted towards the upper class with servants so that they could change

Question 12

Bakers

Answer 12

Poor would go every sunday to heat up food

Question 13

“Deprive them…

Answer 13

Of their means of dining”

Question 14

Bevause bakers werent open on sunday

Answer 14

Poor people could eat properly

Question 15

Cratchit lived

Answer 15

In the same house dickens grew up which shows his affection for the cratchit fsmily

Question 16

“Brave

Answer 16

In ribbons”

Question 17

Brave =

Answer 17

Very visabale

Question 18

Ribbons =

Answer 18

To hide the tears in their clothing

Question 19

“Collar

Answer 19

In his mouth”

Question 20

Collar in his mouth shows?

Answer 20

Looks like he is eating his own clothes. Funny but alsp showjg how hungry the poor are

Question 21

“There’s

Answer 21

Such a goose”

Question 22

The word “such” emphasises?

Answer 22

To highlight the irony of not being able to have a turkey and a proper meal