Characters
What is Scrooge's real name?
Ebenezer
What day did the story take place?
Christmas Eve
What did Bob Cratchit ask Scrooge for?
Scrooge’s shriveled cheeks, red nose, and blue lips were due to
His cold personality
What does Stave mean?
The stanza of a poem
What was the name of Scrooge's business partner?
Jacob Marley
Where did A Christmas Carol take place?
London
How much does Scrooge pay his employee?
15 shillings
What does Scrooge say to anyone who wishes him a Merry Christmas?
“Old Marley was dead as a door-nail.” This sentence is an example of
Simile and idiom
What did Scrooge do for work?
An accountant
When did A Christmas Carol take place?
1800s
What does Bob Cratchit give the two portly men?
money
What does Scrooge blame seeing Marley’s ghost on?
Indigestion
What is the title of Stave 1?
Marley's Ghost
Who was the ghost on the door knocker?
Where did Scrooge see a ghost?
To ask for money for the poor
Scrooge thinks poorly of his nephew because he married for
love
Who wrote A Christmas Carol?
Charles Dickins
Who wanted to spend Christmas with Scrooge?
His nephew
How long has it been since Marley died?
7 years
What do the chains made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses made of steel that Marley is wearing symbolize?
His greed
The Ghost wore a bandage around its head because of a(n)
broken jaw
How many staves are there all together?
5