Christmas Carol: Stave III-How well have you read?
DIRECTIONS: Circle the best answer. Go back to the passage if you need to.
1- The spirit that Scrooge meets in Stave III is
A- the Spirit of Christmas Present
B- The Spirit of Long Past
C- The Spirit of the Christmas Elves
D- The Spirit of Christmas Gifts
2- An example of alliteration is:
A- “…Chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples…”
B- “… ‘You have never seen the like of me before?’…”
C- “… he was not the dogged Scrooge he had been…”
D- “…that dull, petrification of a hearth had never known in Scrooge’s time,
or Marley’s…”
3- Read the following excerpt from Stave III:
“… ‘Spirit,’ said Scrooge submissively, “conduct me where you will. I went forth
last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson which is working now. Tonight, if
you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.’”
What this means is:
A- Scrooge is looking for a way to make money from this experience
B- Scrooge is starting to understand the wrong way his life has gone
C- Scrooge is willing to learn a different way to conduct his business
D- Scrooge wants the ghost to leave him alone
4- Charles Dickens spends a great deal of time describing the marketplace to the
readers. This helps the reader to
A- identify the location of the town where this part of the story takes place
B- understand the names of the foods that were imported for Christmas
C- picture the scene accurately
D- understand where Scrooge often shopped for Christmas presents for his
guests at his home on Christmas Day
5- Read the following excerpt from Stave III.
“… ‘There are some upon this earth of yours,” returned the Spirit, ‘who lay claim
to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy,
bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strangers to us and all our kith
and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on
themselves, not us.’”
The Spirit is referring to the fact that Scrooge has “blamed” the Spirit for
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the closing of the baker shops on the Sabbath
the practice of closing the Exchange on the week-ends
the fact that poor people have no room for ovens in their homes
many people not attending Church services on Christmas Eve
6- Since they didn’t have ovens large enough to roast their turkeys, geese or roasts,
many poor people would rent the ovens from
A- the butcher
B- the baker
C- the candlestick maker
D- the mercantile store
7- The Christmas dinner at the Cratchit house had
A- love and joy
B- waste and lavishness
C- stinginess and frugality
D- solemnity and staidness
8- Plum Pudding, a traditional dessert in England for Christmas dinner, was often
brought to the table
A- soaked in brandy and set on fire
B- hot and served with ice cream
C- decorated with bread and sauce
D- boiled and served in a copper pot
9- The Spirit foreshadows that if things do not change, Tiny Tim’s future is
A- bright and hopeful
B- sad and sorrowful
C- bleak and hopeless
D- rich and full
10- When the Spirit and Scrooge go to Fred’s house
A- Scrooge is insulted by the game
B- Scrooge wants to stay longer
C- Scrooge is angry that the Spirit has brought him here
D- The Spirit wants Scrooge to see the suffering he has caused
11- Read the following excerpt from Stave 3:
“… ‘However, his offences carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say
against him’…”
Scrooge’s nephew Fred is saying that:
A- Scrooge is only hurting himself with the way he acts
B- His uncle is a mean, stingy man who should be punished severely
C- His uncle will receive punishment for what he does because he is so mean
D- What goes around comes around.
12- Toward the end of the night, Scrooge noticed that the Ghost
A- Grew thinner
B- Became larger
C- Faded into the background
D- Grew older
13- The Ghost reveals to Scrooge, two children from the folds of his robe. They are
A- the personification of ignorance and want
B- the children of the Spirit of the damned
C- cursed for all eternity for the evil they had done
D- the alliteration of the ignorant and needy of the known world of the
Victorian era
14- Read the following excerpt from Stave 3:
“… ‘Have they no refuge or resource?’ cried Scrooge.
‘Are there no prisons?’ said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his
own words. ‘Are there no workhouses?’”
This is said to remind Scrooge and the reader that:
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in Dickens’s time workhouses and prisons did exist
Scrooge supports the workhouses and prisons
The Cratchit family lived in a workhouse
Scrooge refused to give money to the poor at the beginning of the story
15- At the end of Stave 3, Scrooge sees a figure approaching him after the clock
struck midnight. We can infer that the figure is
A- the Ghost of Marley’s brother
B- the Ghost of Christmas Past
C- the third ghost that Marley had warned him about
D- the Ghost of Christmas Present