How well do you know…? A Christmas Carol
How well do you know…? A Christmas Carol
From cold hearted miser to a loving and loved benefactor, the first of Dickens’ Christmas books has become an inseparable part of Christmas. And while there have been many wonderful screen adaptations (including the genius of the Muppets!) – how well do you know the actual book?
From cold hearted miser to a loving and loved benefactor, the first of Dickens’ Christmas books has become an inseparable part of Christmas. And while there have been many wonderful screen adaptations (including the genius of the Muppets!) – how well do you know the actual book?
What are the 5 chapters of the story called?
What are the first words Scrooge speaks?
What is the opening line of the story?
Finish this quote, ‘Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas,’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own ---, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.’
How long has Jacob Marley been dead?
Who says this about Christmas, ‘though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good.’
What does Bob do on the way home in honour of Christmas Eve?
What is the first supernatural event in the story?
Which ghost was as close to Scrooge, ‘as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow’?
To which ghost does Scrooge say, ‘There’s more of gravy than of grave about you’?
Who was the young Scrooge’s fiancée?
What relation is ‘Little Fan’ to Scrooge?
Which ghost leads Scrooge across the land and over the sea?
The ghostly girl revealed by the ghost of Christmas present is Want. What is the more dangerous boy?
If Tim is the baby, who is the eldest of the Cratchit children?
What does Bob regard as ‘the greatest success achieved by Mrs Cratchit since their marriage’?
What fowl do the Cratchits have for Christmas dinner?
At the Fezziwig’s party what is ‘Sir Roger de Coverley’?
Finish this quote: ‘he was ready for a good broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing between a baby and a --- would have astonished him very much.’
Which game is played at Scrooge’s nephew’s Christmas party?
Who has the last word in the book?
What has Mrs Dilber taken off Scrooge’s dead body to sell?
When Scrooge wakes up what does he send the boy to buy for the Cratchits?
Where does the ‘new’ Scrooge eat Christmas dinner?
What are the first words Scrooge says that makes Bob realise he has changed?
‘--- was not an easy task, for his hand continued to shake very much; and --- requires attention, even when you don’t dance while you are at it.’ What task?
Who voices Dickens’ angry anti-established religion words?
How much does Bob Cratchit earn a week?
When Marley tells Scrooge he is to be visited by 3 ghosts, what is his first reaction?
Who calls Scrooge, ‘an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man’?