Name: Date: English Period: Due date: Thurs., Dec. 10 th! A Christmas Carol Act I Questions #: SECTION: UNITS Part I: Litearary Questions (pgs. 645-660 of literature book) Directions: Using your book, answer the following questions in preparation for your test; this will serve as part of your review packet for the test on Thursday, December 17 th and Friday, December 18 th! You don t have to write in complete sentences or use all the space, but make sure you fully answer the question! SCENE I pages 645-646 1. Who is Marley? 2. In the very beginning of the play, why is Marley upset with Scrooge? 3. What key background information about Scrooge is provided in scene one? SCENE II pages 646-651 4. How does Scrooge treat his clerk, Bob Cratchit? 5. Why does Scrooge s nephew come to see him? 6. How does Scrooge feel about Christmastime? 7. When did Marley die? 8. Why do the portly man and the thin man visit Scrooge? 9. What can you infer that Cratchit give to the two men? 10. What does this reveal about Cratchit s character? 1
SCENE III pages 651-654 11. What foreshadows the fact that Scrooge will have an unusual evening? 12. How does Marley reappear to Scrooge? 13. How does Scrooge react when he sees Marley again? 14. Why does Marley continue to walk the earth? 15. What do the chains that Marley s ghost must wear symbolize? 16. Why is Marley visiting Scrooge? (What is his purpose?) 17. Why doesn t Scrooge want Marley to leave? SCENE IV pages 654-655 18. Based on how Scrooge acts on page 654-655, does he believe that the next ghost will come? Explain your response! 19. Why does the Ghost of Christmas Past say that he is visiting Scrooge? 2
SCENE V pages 655-660 20. Scrooge visits his old boarding school. What does Scrooge see there that upsets him? 21. What does this make him think of from the night before? (656) 22. Who is Fan? 23. What type of person is Fan (describe her characteristics)? 23a. How do you know this? 24. From the scenes that Christmas Past shows the reader, what can you guess about Scrooge s childhood? 25. Next, the spirit and Scrooge move on to a warehouse. Who does he work for? 26. Who is Dick Wilkins? 27. How is Fezziwig a different boss than Scrooge? 28. How does Scrooge say that he will treat his employees? 28a. Does he live up to this statement? Why or why not? 29. Next, Scrooge is taken to a scene with him and his fiancé. What reason does she give Scrooge for leaving him? 3
30. What does this scene with the young woman reveal about how Scrooge changed as he got older? 31. How does the flashback of Scrooge s fiancé breaking off their engagement help develop the plot? Directions: Read each quote and explain its significance. Part II: ACT I QUOTES 32. "'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!'" 33. 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. He should! 34. I cannot in any way afford to lose my days. Securities come due, promissory notes, interest on investments: these are things that happen in the daylight! 4
35. Past Your lip is trembling, Mr. Scrooge. And what is that upon your cheek? Scrooge Upon my check? Nothing a blemish on the skin from the eating of overmuch grease nothing [Suddenly] King Spirit of Christmas Past, lead me where you will, but quickly! To be stagnant in this place is, for me, unbearable! 36. What does Fred mean when he says, There are many things from which I derive good, by which I have not profited. Christmas is a time when men and women open their shut-up hearts freely, and think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys? Characterization of Scrooge Fill in the chart below! How would you describe Scrooge at the beginning of the play? Cite a piece of text to support your answer! Scene Page # How would you describe Scrooge at the end of Act I? Cite a piece of text to support your answer! Scene Page # 5