A Christmas Carol Reading Comprehension Escape

A Christmas Carol

A charles dickens escape Can you help scrooge find redemption and escape himself?

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Scrooge's Road to Redemption

4.THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS

1.MARLEY’S GHOST

2.THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS

3.THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS

The End of It

Question 1/4

What was the context (what was happening) at the time Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol?

Dickens' father went to a debtor’s prison so he had to work from the age of 12.

1834 New Poor Law – poor people only got government help if they worked in workhouses.

Some believed overpopulation led to poverty and natural disasters were good as they killed off people

The Industrial Revolution exacerbated class divisions and poverty among working class people.

Question 2/4

A Christmas Carol is a novella written in staves instead of chapters. Why did Charles Dickens do this?

Staves are used in music, so in order to resemble music

Why not? Chapters, staves, sections, diary entries, what's the difference?

A stave is a vertical wooden post or plank in a building. So in order to balance the work on these staves.

Question 3/4

Jacob Marley, Scrooge's business partner, comes back as a ghost and says: "I wear the chain I forged in life! I made it link by link and yard by yard! I gartered it on of my own free will and by my own free will, I wore it!" What does it mean?

Jacob Marley says that he was forced to create the chain and now, he wears it wherever he goes.

Jacob Marley likes to make chains and then enjoys scaring people with these chains.

In life, Marley gathered wealth rather than doing good and he forged (created) an invisible chain meant to bind (stick) his soul to the earth.

Question 4/4

Which word best describes Scrooge in Stave 1?

childlike: (having qualities of a child (innocence))

miserly: (a person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible.)

bored

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Incorrect!You get coal.

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Scrooge's Road to Redemption

4.THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS

1. MARLEY’S GHOST

2.THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS

3.THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS

The End of It

Question 1/4

What are the themes of the 1843's novella, A Christmas Carol?

Family, Love, Success, Failure, Revenge

Family, Christmas, Money, Power, Control, Communism

Time, Social Injustice, Criminality, Hopelessness

Time, Family, Social Injustice, Christmas, Redemption

Question 2/4

When the ghost takes Scrooge to his childhood at boarding school, it shows him his younger self and says he was "a __________ child, _________ by his friends." Which are the two missing words?

solitary ; neglected

lonely ; hated

alien ; disliked

joyful ; loved

Question 3/4

Which of the following shows the correct order of vignettes Scrooge is shown of his past?

boarding school; Fan; Belle breaks engagement; Fezziwig; Belle with family

boarding school; Fan; Fezziwig; Belle breaks engagement; Belle with family

boarding school; Fezziwig; Fan; Belle breaks engagement; Belle with family

boarding school; Fezziwig; Belle breaks engagement; Fan; Belle with family

Question 4/4

Scrooge, pitying the lonely child he once was, thinks of the boy who sang a carol at his door and says he "should have liked to have given him something." Scrooge has a sudden realisation about himself. What is the correct terminology to describe a sudden realisation?

epiplexis

epizeuxis

epiphany

epitome

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Wrong!

Bad kidslist

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Scrooge's Road to Redemption

4.THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS

1.MARLEY’S GHOST

3.THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS

2.THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS

The End of It

Question 1/4

The ghost is seated on a throne made of various meats and fruits associated with Christmas feasting. What point was Dickens trying to make?

Dickens is suggesting that there is an abundance of food and is criticising the belief that starvation was an acceptable means of "decreasing the surplus population."

Dickens uses an extensive list of foods to convey an impression of this Ghost's own generous nature.

Dickens is describing the variety of foods that were commonly associated with feasting in celebration of Christmas.

Dickens uses an extensive list of foods to contrast the Ghost's generosity with Scrooge's miserly nature.

Question 2/4

Under the robe of The Ghost of Christmas present are two children named Ignorance and Want. What do they represent?

They represent the ignorance of the suffering of the poor and relentless desire for material gain that leads to poverty.

They represent how these social issues should be ignored

They represent how wanting abundance is bad for society as a whole.

They represent people's desire to have children.

Question 3/4

What question does Scrooge ask the Ghost?

If the Cratchits will have enough to eat after Christmas.

If the Cratchits will ever forgive him.

If Tiny Tim will live.

If it is too late for him to repent and be redeemed.

Question 4/4

When Scrooge expresses concern for the ragged children, Ignorance and Want, asking: "Have they no refuge or resource?" How does the Ghost reply?

"Should you like to help them?"

"Are there no prisons?"

"Should you care to help them?"

"Why should you care?"

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Incorrect!You lose gifts.

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Scrooge's Road to Redemption

4.THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS

1.MARLEY’S GHOST

3.THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS

2.THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS

The End of It

Question 1/4

How does Scrooge feel in the presence of the spirit of the Christmas Yet to Come? Choose the best answer.

Scrooge feels a sense of frustration because the spirit does not answer his questions.

Scrooge feels bewildered by this spirit as it does not speak to him.

Scrooge feels a sense of optimism for he is keen to learn from this spirit.

Scrooge feels a sense of dread in the presence of this spirit.

Question 2/4

Who are the only people who feel some emotion connected to the man's death?

The Cratchit family

Belle and her husband

Fred and his wife

The couple who owed Scrooge money

Question 3/4

For what does Scrooge beg the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?

Scrooge asks the spirit to offer him a chance at redemption.

All of the above.

Scrooge beseeches the spirit to give him time and opportunity to change his selfish ways

Scrooge implores the spirit to ensure that Tiny Tim does not die.

Question 4/4

Thinking about the emotions each spirit arouses in Scrooge, in the order he encounters them, which of the following is the correct order of emotions Scrooge experiences?

fear ; pity ; nostalgia

nostalgia ; pity ; fear

pity ; nostalgia ; fear

nostalgia ; fear ; pity

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Incorrect!Smokey chimney.

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Scrooge's Road to Redemption

4.THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS

1.MARLEY’S GHOST

2.THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS

3.THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS

The End of It

"I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy"-Scrooge You've completed the ESCAPE!

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