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Scrooge enjoyed using this phrase to describe Christmas.
What is a humbug?
This first Spirit comes to visit Scrooge when the bell tolls one.
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Past?
This Spirit is arguably the basis of the modern image of "Santa Clause" or Father Christmas.
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Present?
This Spirit is depicted very much like other modern portrayals of Death.
This character is described as being "tight-fisted at the grindstone."
Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?
Marley was described as being "dead as a ____."
What is a doornail?
This character was Scrooge's old business mentor, who loved to celebrate Christmas.
Who is Mr. Fezziwig?
The Spirit resembles a priest, particularly in how he uses this object.
What is his torch?
Scrooge reads this name on a tombstone.
Who is "Ebenezer Scrooge"?
This character is said to be "Like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man."
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Past?
This person tells Scrooge that there are "many things from which I have derived good, and from which I have not profited."
Who is Scrooge's nephew?
The Spirit shows this character coming to retrieve a young Scrooge from boarding school to enjoy Christmas with family.
Who is Fan?
This character is predicted to die unless something drastic changes.
Who is Tiny Tim?
Dickens taunts this being when he writes, "Strike, Shadow, Strike!"
What is Death?
This character is described as wielding an "antique scabbard; but no sword was in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten up with rust."
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Present?
Scrooge refuses to give money to the charity workers asking them if these organizations are still in business. (Two answers; must get both)
What are the prisons and the workhouses?
In one vision, this character tells Scrooge, "your own feeling tells you that you were not what you are."
Who is Belle?
These two children cling to the Spirit's cloak.
Who are Want and Ignorance?
When Scrooge asks the Spirit to show him someone's emotional response to the man's death, the only emotion he finds someone having is ____. (Must be the exact word)
What is pleasure?
This character is described as "being light to carry, and his father loved him so."
Who is Tiny Tim?
Scrooge tells the charity workers that if the poor are going to die, "they had better do it, and decrease the ____ ____." (Two words)
What is the surplus population?
Fill in the blank: "I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion of all, ____, engrosses you." (Must be the exact word)
What is "Gain"?
Scrooge's nephew is described as having an irresistible and contagious ____.
What is laughter?
Scrooge reacts in horror when he hears that the thief has stolen these directly from the corpse.
What are bed-curtains?
Charles Dickens likens Death to a God-King when he says "set up thine ___ here ... for this is thy ___." (must get both exact words)
What are "altar" and "dominion"?