Stave 2

Question 1

Stealing

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Bob Cratchit being childish

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Scrooge being sad

Answer 3

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

Question 4

First line

Answer 4

‘Marley was dead, to begin with’

Question 5

Self

Answer 5

‘sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’

Question 6

Marleys face on the door

Answer 6

‘not a knocker, but Marley’s face’

Question 7

Darkness is …… than light

Answer 7

‘Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it’.

Question 8

The …. was surrounding him

Answer 8

‘The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’

Question 9

describing his chain

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Scrooges partner

Answer 10

‘In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley’

Question 11

Ghost wander

Answer 11

“Condemned” “Doomed to wander through the world”

Question 12

Forged in life

Answer 12

“I wear the chain I forged in life”

Question 13

Chains

Answer 13

I made it link by link

Question 14

Coils

Answer 14

Would you know the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself

Question 15

Man kind

Answer 15

Man Kind was my business

Question 16

Three spirits

Answer 16

You will be haunted by three spirits

Question 17

The sky was filled with ghosts

Answer 17

The air was filled with phantoms… moaning as they went