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A Christmas Carol Stave One: Marley’s Ghost Study Guide

Part A. Vocabulary

On your own paper, define the following words. If a word has more than one definition, make sure you pick the definition that is appropriate for how the word is used in A Christmas Carol.

ironmongery residuary legatee indignantly extremity ominous tremulous caustic unhallowed ramparts veneration resolute destitute tacitly spectre emphatically entreaty involuntarily portly workhouses livid apparition executor phantoms impropriety liberality facetious incredulous unavailing

B. Questions

Answer the following questions on your own paper. Use complete sentences. You do not have to write the questions.

1. What type of narrator (first person, third person, etc.) does the story have? Provide a sentence from the text as evidence.

2. What type of figurative language is mentioned on the first page. Write the type of figurative language and the actual example.

3. Who was Marley? Is he alive or dead?

4. What is Scrooge like? Describe him using two adjectives. Provide a piece of evidence from the story for each adjective.

5. What is the setting as the story begins? Who is there?

6. Who comes to see Scrooge? What does Scrooge think of the visitor's holiday wishes? How does Scrooge feel about Christmas? 7. Who else comes to the counting-house? Why does Scrooge not want to part with even a penny?

8. What is meant by, "…it is a time, of all others when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices"?

9. What is the weather like? How are we made to really "feel" the weather?

10. Why does the boy singing carols run away from Scrooge's door?

11. Why is Cratchit wrapped in a blanket? What is Scrooge's attitude toward giving Cratchit the day off on Christmas?

12. Is Scrooge afraid when he sees Marley's reflection in the door-knocker? When does Scrooge actually begin to feel uneasy?

13. What action of the phantom finally convinces Scrooge that he is a ghost?

14. What does Marley tell Scrooge about his chain? What is Marley condemned to suffer?

15. What is the purpose of Marley's visit to Scrooge?

16. Who signed the register of Marley’s burial?

17. Why do you think the narrator described how dead Marley was?

18. What was Scrooge’s relationship with Jacob Marley? What was the name of the firm where Scrooge worked?

19. Why would people, adults nor children, not stop to speak to Scrooge in the streets?

20. What was unusual about Scrooge locking his door tonight? Why is this important?

21. Who was responsible for the sound of dragging chains Scrooge heard?

22. How many spirits did Marley’s Ghost tell Scrooge he would be haunted by tonight? A Christmas Carol Stave Two: The First of the Three Spirits Study Guide

Part A. Vocabulary

On your own paper, define the following words. If a word has more than one definition, make sure you pick the definition that is appropriate for how the word is used in A Christmas Carol.

perplexed reclamation despairingly capacious supplication vestige ferocious negus remonstrated jocund condescension avarice conducive cupola tumult sordid

Part B. Questions

Answer the following questions on your own paper. Use complete sentences. You do not have to write the questions.

1. What has happened to time?

2. How does Scrooge almost become convinced that the vision of Marley was only a dream?

3. According to the church chimes, what time is it when Scrooge wakes up?

4. Who comes to visit Scrooge? What is especially strange about the first spirit’s appearance?

5. What is the name of the first spirit? Is Scrooge afraid of it?

6. Describe the five scenes that Scrooge and the first spirit visit.

7. What does the spirit's advice to Scrooge mean – “Bear but a touch of my hand there –" said the Spirit, laying it upon his heart, "and you shall be upheld in more than this"?

8. Who is the solitary boy left at the school? How does Scrooge change as he watches the boy?

9. How does Scrooge transfer his feelings about his boyhood self back to the present?

10. Who is Fezziwig? What is he like as an employer? 11. What is the atmosphere of the party?

12. What is Scrooge’s reaction to the party as he watches the festivities at Fezziwig's?

13. How does Scrooge transfer the memories of Fezziwig to thoughts of the present?

14. Who is Belle? What is the reason she no longer wants to marry him?

15. Where was Scrooge on the day Marley was dying? What was he probably doing?

16. Why can’t Scrooge hide the light on the spirit's head?

17. How does Scrooge feel about his trip into his past?

18. What did Scrooge do when the Ghost of Christmas Past left?