A Christmas Carol Test 1. What type of person (financial status) does Scrooge represent?
2. What type of people (financial status) do the Cratchits represent?
3. What are the three Christmas ghosts (name them, not counting Marley)?
4. What social commentary (moral of the story) does Dickens offer about the treatment of the poor through the character of Scrooge?
5. What “charity” does Scrooge say he supports for the poor (Ch. 1)?
6. Which ghost makes him feel guilty for this comment?
7. True/False: While alive Jacob Marley was more sympathetic toward the poor than Scrooge?
8. What was Marley’s relationship to Scrooge?
9. Why does Marley come back to visit Scrooge after Marley’s death (what is Marley’s ghost’s mission)?
10. True/False: Scrooge did not enjoy his former boss’ parties because they were not fancy enough.
11. What was his former boss’ name?
12. Why did Belle leave Scrooge?
13. True/False: Bob Cratchit likes Scrooge.
14. True/False: Bob’s wife likes Scrooge.

15. Whose big party does Scrooge attend with the second ghost?
16. Which character does the party’s host toast to?
17. What does the second ghost tell Scrooge will happen to Tiny Tim?
18. According to the second ghost, who is more important: Scrooge or Tim?
19. What are the names of the kids who travel with the second ghost?
20. Who does the ghost say the kids belong to?
21. What is message of this (answer to question #20)?
22. True/False: Dickens thinks poor people are not as good as the rich.
23. Explain your answer for the previous question (#22).
24. True/False: A third spirit speaks to Scrooge?
25. Whose grave does that spirit show to Scrooge at the end of the chapter?
26. True/False: The other townspeople seem upset about this person’s death.
27. Who else “dies” according to the third ghost?
28. What is the name of the ghost Scrooge says scares him the most?
29. What does Scrooge promise the portly gentlemen after seeing the ghosts?
30. What does Scrooge tell a boy to go order for the Cratchit family on Christmas morning?
31. Why can’t Tiny Tim receive treatment for his illness (Ch. 1-4)?
32. How is this problem fixed at the end of the story?
33. What is Scrooge’s typical (Ch. 1-4) response to “Merry Christmas