A Christmas Carol Review Packet

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1 Name: Date: Advanced English Period: Due: Friday, Dec. 14 #: A Christmas Carol Review Packet Use your handouts, questions packets and novel to answer the questions! TEST DAY ONE Monday, December 17, 2012 ACED Paragraph - You will be given three writing prompts. - You will have to choose one of the three prompts to answer. - You will have to select three pieces from the text to support your answer. So, make sure you have your novel with you!!! (Your format for this will be: ACECECED) Guidelines: No use of YOU! No first person! (I, me, my, we, our, etc.) No talking to the reader Use of proper grammar (no run-ons, fragments, subject-verb agreement etc.) Use of correct spelling Don t use in conclusion or to conclude in your D statement; use something else! Put quotation marks around each quote A= one sentence o Re-state the question in your answer Each C= one sentence o Begin with a transition word or phrase Each E=2+ sentences o Explain the C (your quote) and how it supports the A D= 1 sentence o Begin with a transition word or phrase Grading: 46 possible points o A = 5 possible points 2 points for re-stating complete question 2 points for content 1 point for grammar/spelling o C = 6 possible points (18 total points) 1 point for a proper transition 1 point for including a quote 1 point for proper quotation marks 2 points for content 1 point for grammar/spelling o E = 6 possible points (18 total points) 1 point for at least two sentences 4 points for content 1 point for grammar/spelling o D = 5 possible points 1 point for a proper transition 1 point for re-stating the A 2 points for content 1 point for spelling/grammar 1

2 TEST DAY TWO Tuesday, December 18, 2012 Part I test day two: WHO SAID IT? Directions: Write the name of the character that said each quote. 1. "Oh! but he was a tightfisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!...the cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue... " (pg. 2) 2. " 'If I could work my will... every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart....' " (pgs. 3-4) 3." 'There are many things from which I might have derived good by which I have not profited, I dare say... Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely... And therefore... though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and it will do me good; and I say, God bless it!' " (pg. 4) 4." 'You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!' " (pg. 12) Who is this character referring to? 5." 'Business!... Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!' " (pg. 14) 6."I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer. (pg. 15) 7. Every time he resolved within himself, after mature inquiry, that it was all a dream, his mind flew back again like a strong spring released, to its first position, and presented the same problem to be worked all through, Was it a dream or not? 8." 'Father is so much kinder than he used to be that home's like Heaven! He spoke so gently to me one dear night when I was going to bed that I was not afraid to ask him once more if you might come home; and he said Yes, you should; and sent me in a coach to bring you.' " (pg. 22) What is the significance of this quote? 2

3 9." 'He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks, in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up; what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.' " (pg. 26) What is the significance of this quote? 10." '...I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?' " (pg. 27) 11. "You may the memory of what is past half makes me hope you will have pain in this. A very, very brief time, and you will dismiss the recollection of it, gladly, as an unprofitable dream, from which it happened well that you awoke. May you be happy in the life you have chosen! (pg. 28) 12. Have never walked forth with the younger members of my family; meaning (for I am very young) my elder brothers born in these later years? (pg. 33) 13." 'He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember, upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.' " (pg. 38) 14." If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. (pg. 40). Why was this ironic? 15." 'The Founder of the Feast, indeed!... I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it.' " (pg. 41) 16." 'They are Man's... And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware of them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow, I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.' " (pg. 49) 17. I fear you more than any Spectre I have seen. But, as I know your promise is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me? (pg. 51) How does this show that Scrooge has changed? 3

4 18."'If he wanted to keep 'em after he was dead, a wicked old screw... why wasn't he natural in his lifetime? If he had been, he'd have had somebody to look after him when he was struck with Death, instead of lying gasping out his last there, alone by himself.' " (pg ) 19."'I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!' " (pg. 62) How does this show that Scrooge has changed? 20."'Yes... That is my name, and I fear it may not be pleasant to you. Allow me to ask your pardon. And will you have the goodness If you please... Not a farthing less. A great many back payments are included in it, I assure you.' " (pg. 66) TEST DAY TWO Tuesday, December 18, 2012 Part 2 of test day two: COMPREHENSION AND CHARACTERS You are responsible for studying the information listed on all of the questions you answered for each stave. In addition, please study the information below. 21. What are the names of the three spirits? Where did Scrooge live? 23. What was on Marley s chains? 24. How did Scrooge act towards the first spirit? 25. How did Scrooge act towards the second spirit? 26. How did Scrooge act towards the third spirit? 4

5 27. Explain briefly who each character is: FRED: MARLEY: FAN: DICK WILKINS: FEZZIWIG: BOB CRATCHIT: TINY TIM: OLD JOE: MRS. DILBER: 28. What do the chains that Marley s ghost wear represent? 29. Why does Fred tell his wife that he will continue to ask his Uncle Ebenezer for Christmas dinner every year? 30. Why does Scrooge's fiancée breaks off their engagement? 31. Why does Scrooge remember Fezziwig with such fondness? 32. What scenes does the Ghost of Christmas Past show Scrooge? 33. What scenes does the Ghost of Christmas Present show Scrooge? 34. What scenes does the Ghost of Future (Yet-to-Come) show Scrooge? 5

6 35. How does Scrooge live up to the promise he made to Christmas Yet-To-Come in Stave Five? 36. What is Marley s purpose in visiting his former partner? 37. At the beginning of the story, what is one of the first suggestions made by the narrator to the reader that Scooge is a miser? 38. Why did Dickens call each chapter a stave? 39. One of the first signs in Stave Two that Scrooge may be softening a bit is when 40. Scrooge notices the aging of the Ghost of Christmas Present as midnight approaches. What does the ghost explain his aging is due to? 41. The most accurate way to describe the progression of Scrooge s reactions to the Ghosts of Christmas is: 42. What type of character is Scrooge static or dynamic and WHY? 6