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100
This is the place that poor Victorians went for a hot meal and a bed
What is a workhouse?
100
What does the light on the Ghost of Christmas Past represent?
What is memory?
100
This means uneasy or fearful about something that might happen.
What is apprehensive?
100
This is the most discerning (different) feature of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in comparison with the other ghosts Scrooge has met.
What is he doesn't speak?
100
This is a disorder or disease of the body, especially one that is chronic or deep-seated.
What is malady?
200
This vocabulary word means "confined or restrained by chains or shackles placed upon the feet."
What is fetter?
200
Complete this sentence using a vocabulary word: "'The school is not quite deserted,' said the Ghost. A __________ child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.'"
What is solitary.
200
This is what the Ghost of Christmas Present represents.
What is greed.
200
This vocabulary word means: "hateful; detestable; highly offensive; repugnant; disgusting."
What is odious?
200
This is where Scrooge goes for Christmas dinner.
What is Fred's house?
300
Complete this sentence using a vocabulary word: "Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole assign, his sole residuary ____________, his sole friend and sole mourner."
What is legatee?
300
This is the idol that Belle said Scrooge chose over her.
What is a golden one?
300
Complete this sentence with a vocabulary word: "There were great round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waist-coats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic ______________."
What is opulence?
300
This is the place where Mrs. Dilber and the other scavengers sell the goods they stole from Scrooge's house.
What is Old Joe's shop?
300
Complete this sentence with a vocabulary word: "Really for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most __________ laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs."
What is illustrious?
400
This character is most like Scrooge in the novel.
Who is Jacob Marley?
400
These were Scrooge's childhood friends.
Who are characters in books?
400
This is the character who doesn't want to toast Mr. Scrooge on Christmas day.
Who is Mrs. Cratchit?
400
Complete this sentence using a vocabulary word: "Secrets that few would like to ______________ were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchers of bones."
What is scrutinize?
400
This is what Scrooge buys the Cratchit family when he wakes up on Christmas day.
What is the prize turkey?
500
This is the popularized phrase used by Scrooge when people wish him "Merry Christmas!"
What is "Bah Humbug!"
500
This vocabulary word means, "desire to do good to others; goodwill; charitableness."
What is benevolence?
500
These are the two problems that mankind's children represent.
What are ignorance and want?
500
This is what Scrooge sees that causes him to promise to change his ways and honor Christmas.
What is his own gravestone?
500
This is the character whose famous words conclude the novel.
Who is Tiny Tim?
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