Act 1 Plot Points
The name of Scrooge's deceased business partner who visits him as a ghost
Who is Jacob Marley?
The first ghost that appears to Scrooge
Who is Jacob Marley?
The century A Christmas Carol takes place
What is the 19th century?
What country was Charles Dickens born in?
What is England?
Scrooge's cold demeanor symbolizes...
What is his lack of compassion? What is his selfishness?
What Marley's ghost wears that symbolizes his greed
What are heavy chains?
The name of Scrooge's underpaid and overworked clerk
A common problem for the poor during Dickens' time
What is poverty or What are workhouses?
The first published novel written by Charles Dickens
What is the Pickwick Papers?
Marley's chains represent...
What is the weight of his greed and selfishness?
Where Act 1 takes place
What is Scrooge's office/home?
What Scrooge calls people who celebrate Christmas
What are fools or what are idiots?
Holiday traditions that became popular during the Victorian era partly due to Dickens
What are Christmas carols and family gatherings?
What inspired Dickens to write a Christmas Carol
What are his observations of poverty and injustice?
What is generosity and goodwill?
How Scrooge responds to his nephew inviting him to Christmas dinner
What is he refuses? or What is Bah Humbug?
The character Scrooge tells this character to "keep Christmas in their own way" and leave him to "keep it in his."
Who is Scrooge's nephew, Fred?
The social class that was growing during the Industrial Revolution
What is the middle class?
The job Dickens had as a child
What is working in a factory?
What the counting house represents in Scrooge's life
What is his obsession with money and lack of personal connections?
Marley warns Scrooge about something before leaving
What is he will be visited by three spirits?
How Scrooge feels about giving to the poor
What is he refuses or what is it that he thinks they should go to workhouses
The law that required poor people to live in workhouses to receive aid
What is the Poor Law?
The major life event that deeply influenced Dicken's focus on the struggles of the poor
What is his father being sent to debtors' prison?
How Dickens critiques society through characters of the poor
What is by showing the harsh realities of inequality and urging for social reform?