Quotes

Question 1

He doesn’t like to let go of money easily

Answer 1

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

Question 2

A series of adjectives to describe him

Answer 2

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

Question 3

A simile to show he is hard headed

Answer 3

‘hard and sharp as flint’

Question 4

Says how he used to be different

Answer 4

‘The cold within him froze his old features’

Question 5

He has always been cold hearted

Answer 5

‘He carried his own low temperature always’

Question 6

Everywhere he goes is cold

Answer 6

7. ‘he iced his office’

Question 7

This is to show there was a different time

Answer 7

‘Once upon a time…’

Question 8

Watching his clerk

Answer 8

‘‘he might keep an eye on his clerk’

Question 9

Scrooge is selfish and doesn’t want to use his money for fire

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Scrooge can not redo what he has done

Answer 10

‘He couldn’t replenish it’

Question 11

Scrooge is selfish and doesn’t want to share his coal

Answer 11

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

Question 12

A simile to show he likes to be isolated

Answer 12

‘solitary as an oyster’

Question 13

Loads of fog

Answer 13

13.‘The fog came pouring in…’

Question 14

Fred coming into scene with cheerful voice

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Fred glowing

Answer 15

15.‘he was all in a glow’

Question 16

Freds eyes standing out

Answer 16

16.‘his eyes sparkled’

Question 17

Scrooges foul mood in christmas

Answer 17

17.‘Bah!…Humbug!’

Question 18

Fred believing in christmas doing him good

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Last line before he leaves his office

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Scrooge being cruel towards the poor

Answer 20

20.‘Are there no prisons?’

Question 21

When thinking of others how it is their time

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Black into the distance

Answer 22

22.‘Nothing!’

Question 23

Scrooge talking about surplussing the population

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Talking about how it’s not his business

Answer 24

24.‘It’s not my business’

Question 25

Fog and darkness becoming more worse

Answer 25

25.‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’

Question 26

The cold became worse

Answer 26

26.‘The cold became intense’

Question 27

A big fire which warmed their hands

Answer 27

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 the clerk for stealing from him

Answer 28

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

Question 29

The clerk was happy he got a day off

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Scrooge is very sad eating dinner at a tavern

Answer 30

30.‘Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern

Question 31

The story saying marley is dead

Answer 31

31.‘Marley was dead, to begin with’.

Question 32

Scrooge was the only mourner

And they are the same

Answer 32

32.‘sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’

Question 33

The knocker is marleys face

Answer 33

33.‘not a knocker, but Marley’s face’

Question 34

Being in the dark is cheap

Answer 34

34.‘Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it’.

Question 35

The chain was around the middle

Answer 35

35.‘The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’

Question 36

The things that was on marley when he went to visit scrooge

Answer 36

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

Question 37

When he was alive he was marleys partner

Answer 37

37.‘In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley’

Question 38

Wandering through the world forever

Answer 38

38.‘Condemned’ ‘Doomed to wander through the world’

Question 39

The chain that is created when he was alive

Answer 39

39.‘I wear the chain I forged in life’

Question 40

Making it link by link

Answer 40

40.‘I made it link by link’

Question 41

Rhetorical question of the coil bearing scrooge

Answer 41

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

Question 42

Mankind was marleys buisness

Answer 42

42.‘Mankind was my business’

Question 43

Scrooge being haunted by three ghosts

Answer 43

43.‘You will be haunted by Three Spirits’

Question 44

Phantoms filling the air and moaning

Answer 44

44.‘The air was filled with phantoms… moaning as they went’