<p>Name ______</p><p>This assignment is worth 2 grades. You will receive 1 grade for Stave 1 and 1 grade for Stave 2. </p><p>This assignment is due on Tuesday, Nov. 15.</p><p>A Christmas Carol Stave One: Marley’s Ghost Study Guide</p><p>Part A. Vocabulary </p><p>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.</p><p> 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 </p><p>B. Questions </p><p>Answer the following questions on your own paper. Use complete sentences. You do not have to write the questions.</p><p>1. What type of narrator (first person, third person, etc.) does the story have? Provide a sentence from the text as evidence.</p><p>2. What type of figurative language is mentioned on the first page. Write the type of figurative language and the actual example.</p><p>3. Who was Marley? Is he alive or dead?</p><p>4. What is Scrooge like? Describe him using two adjectives. Provide a piece of evidence from the story for each adjective.</p><p>5. What is the setting as the story begins? Who is there? </p><p>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? </p><p>8. What is meant by, "…it is a time, of all others when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices"?</p><p>9. What is the weather like? How are we made to really "feel" the weather?</p><p>10. Why does the boy singing carols run away from Scrooge's door?</p><p>11. Why is Cratchit wrapped in a blanket? What is Scrooge's attitude toward giving Cratchit the day off on Christmas?</p><p>12. Is Scrooge afraid when he sees Marley's reflection in the door-knocker? When does Scrooge actually begin to feel uneasy?</p><p>13. What action of the phantom finally convinces Scrooge that he is a ghost?</p><p>14. What does Marley tell Scrooge about his chain? What is Marley condemned to suffer?</p><p>15. What is the purpose of Marley's visit to Scrooge?</p><p>16. Who signed the register of Marley’s burial? </p><p>17. Why do you think the narrator described how dead Marley was? </p><p>18. What was Scrooge’s relationship with Jacob Marley? What was the name of the firm where Scrooge worked? </p><p>19. Why would people, adults nor children, not stop to speak to Scrooge in the streets? </p><p>20. What was unusual about Scrooge locking his door tonight? Why is this important? </p><p>21. Who was responsible for the sound of dragging chains Scrooge heard? </p><p>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</p><p>Part A. Vocabulary </p><p>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.</p><p> perplexed reclamation despairingly capacious supplication vestige ferocious negus remonstrated jocund condescension avarice conducive cupola tumult sordid </p><p>Part B. Questions </p><p>Answer the following questions on your own paper. Use complete sentences. You do not have to write the questions.</p><p>1. What has happened to time?</p><p>2. How does Scrooge almost become convinced that the vision of Marley was only a dream?</p><p>3. According to the church chimes, what time is it when Scrooge wakes up? </p><p>4. Who comes to visit Scrooge? What is especially strange about the first spirit’s appearance?</p><p>5. What is the name of the first spirit? Is Scrooge afraid of it?</p><p>6. Describe the five scenes that Scrooge and the first spirit visit.</p><p>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"?</p><p>8. Who is the solitary boy left at the school? How does Scrooge change as he watches the boy?</p><p>9. How does Scrooge transfer his feelings about his boyhood self back to the present?</p><p>10. Who is Fezziwig? What is he like as an employer? 11. What is the atmosphere of the party?</p><p>12. What is Scrooge’s reaction to the party as he watches the festivities at Fezziwig's?</p><p>13. How does Scrooge transfer the memories of Fezziwig to thoughts of the present? </p><p>14. Who is Belle? What is the reason she no longer wants to marry him? </p><p>15. Where was Scrooge on the day Marley was dying? What was he probably doing? </p><p>16. Why can’t Scrooge hide the light on the spirit's head?</p><p>17. How does Scrooge feel about his trip into his past? </p><p>18. What did Scrooge do when the Ghost of Christmas Past left? </p>