Scrooge Quotes

Question 1

squeezing

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Hard

Answer 2

Hard and sharp as flint, from

which no steel had ever struck out generous fire

Question 3

oyster

Answer 3

solitary as an oyster

Question 4

features

Answer 4

the cold within him froze his old features

Question 5

crowded paths of life

Answer 5

to edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance

Question 6

Bah!

Answer 6

Bah! Humbug

Question 7

rather die

Answer 7

If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population

Question 8

melancholy

Answer 8

Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern

Question 9

Darkness

Answer 9

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it

Question 10

upon his knees

Answer 10

Scrooge fell upon his knees, and clasped his hands before his face

Question 11

gladness

Answer 11

filled with gladness when he heard them give each other Merry Christmas

Question 12

GOCP: solitary child

Answer 12

A solitary child, neglected by his friends is left there still’

Question 13

GOCP: world hands

Answer 13

Would you so soon put out, with world hands, the light I give?

Question 14

too late

Answer 14

I wish but it’s too late now

Question 15

uneasy

Answer 15

Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind

Question 16

every one aside

Answer 16

he put them every one aside with his own hand

Question 17

GOCP: worthless and less fit

Answer 17

you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.

Question 18

Fred: no use

Answer 18

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

Question 19

another man

Answer 19

I hope to live to be another man from what I was

Question 20

the bundle

Answer 20

It’s no sin. Open the bundle, Joe.

Question 21

tearing at the door

Answer 21

A cat was tearing at the door and there was a sound of gnawing rats

Question 22

Caroline

Answer 22

We may sleep to-night with light hearts, Caroline!

Question 23

pleasure

Answer 23

The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure

Question 24

sponge away

Answer 24

I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!

Question 25

feather

Answer 25

I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel

Question 26

baby

Answer 26

I am quite a baby

Question 27

Portly Gentlemen: munificence

Answer 27

I don’t know what to say to such munificence

Question 28

salary

Answer 28

I’ll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family

Question 29

second father

Answer 29

To Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father