1. Jacob Marley's ghost
   Timbuck Joe
2. His neighbor George
   His cleaning lady

Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley. Mr. Marley was forever cursed to wander the earth, dragging a network of heavy chains, forged during a lifetime of greed and selfishness.

1. Ebenezer Scrooge
   Thomas Nast
2. Claude Monet
   Thomas Hardy

At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas. Throughout the story, he is reminded of the power of Christmas. By the end of the novel, he is once again a kind and welcoming man.

1. Jacob Marley
   Bob Cratchit
2. Tom Thompson
   George Lambert

Bob Cratchit is an abused, underpaid clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge. Cratchit symbolizes poor working conditions, especially long working hours. He works for 15 shillings a week at a rate of three pence (thruppence) an hour for 60 hours per week.

1. Nephew Fred
   Cousin Bob
2. Uncle George
   Brother Ian

Nephew Fred hosts a Christmas dinner each year. He always invites his Uncle but Scrooge never attends. He tells his guests about his uncle with much laughter, but also with pity, because, "I am sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried."

1. Scrooge and Marley
   Scrooge and CO
2. Humbug Express
   Money, Money, Money

Scrooge's business partner was named Jacob Marley. The story starts buy telling the readers that even though Marley was dead , he never bothered to change the name or the sign. As a result of Scrooge just leaving it, the business is still called jus "Scrooge and Marley."

1. joy and love in his heart
   the same attitudes as always
2. more hate than ever before
   disdain

Ebenezer Scrooge wakes on Christmas Day as a new and changed man. He vows to treat everyone with kindness, generosity, and compassion; he now embodies the spirit of Christmas. He has truly learnt from his adventures the previous night.

1. Tiny Tim
   George
2. Albert
   Maverick

Tiny Tim is Bob Cratchit's ill son. He also has a son named Peter. Tiny Tim is memorable for his classic line, "God bless us, everyone!"

1. "Snuffleupagus"
   "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes"
2. "Bah! Humbug!"
   "By a twinkle of my eye"

Scrooge's catch phrase was "Bah! Humbug!" It meant that he was declaring Christmas to be a fraud. He also used it to illustrate his disgust with many of the modern Christmas traditions.

1. Three geese a-laying
   Three young children knocking on his door
2. Three cases of champagne
   Three wealthy gentlemen making light of a recent death

The third ghost shows Scrooge three wealthy gentleman making light of a recent death. They are remarking that it will be a cheap funeral, if anyone comes at all. One businessman says he would go... if lunch is provided. Next, Scrooge is shown the same dead person's belongings being stolen by Scrooge's charwoman, Mrs. Dilber, Scrooge's laundress, and the local undertaker, and sold to a receiver of stolen goods called Old Joe.

1. The Ghost of Christmas Past
   The Ghost of Christmas Present
2. The Ghost
   The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

Also known as The Ghost of Christmas Future. Scrooge finds the Ghost Of Christmas Future the most fearsome of the Spirits. The spirit appears to Scrooge as a figure entirely muffled in a black hooded cloak, except for a single spectral hand with which it points. Although the character never speaks in the story, Scrooge understands it.

1. a rundown churchyard and shows the repentant miser his own grave
   his old schoolhouse
2. back to his own bed
   to his office

Scrooge is lastly taken to his own grave. Scrooge then realizes that the dead man of whom the others spoke ill was himself. Horrified, Scrooge begs the ghost for another chance to redeem his life and "sponge away the writing on this stone."

1. A child mourning his parents
   Uncle George morning Aunt Viola
2. Nephew Fred morning his death
   Bob Cratchit and his family mourning the passing of Tiny Tim

After Scrooge asks to see some tenderness connected with death, the ghost shows him Bob Cratchit and his family mourning the passing of Tiny Tim. Scrooge is riddled with emotion.

1. Friendly Ghost George
   Ghost of Fun
2. Ghost of Christmas
   Ghost of Christmas Past

The Ghost of Christmas Past is the first sprit that visits Scrooge. The Ghost of Christmas Past appears to Scrooge as a white-robed, androgynous figure of indeterminate age. It has on its head a blazing light, reminiscent of a candle flame, and carries a metal cap, made in the shape of a candle extinguisher.

1. Back to his old school
   Back to the Christmas Eve when his beloved fiancée Belle ended their relationship
2. Back to his childhood home
   Back to his first job

The Ghost of Christmas Past last shows Scrooge the Christmas Eve when, as a young man, his beloved fiancée Belle ended their relationship. She realized that he cared more about money than he did for her. Scrooge did not ask Belle to end their engagement, but he did not fight to keep her either. Finally, the spirit shows him how she married and found true happiness with another man.

1. God bless us
   God bless us, every one!
2. Let's eat
   Pass the turkey

The story ends with a phrase from Tiny Tim. It wishes everyone well when he says, "God Bless us, every one."

1. 7 years
   5 years
2. 2 years
   6 months

Jacob Marley had been dead for 7 years when the story starts. Marley died exactly seven years to the date of his unexpected return from the grave on that fateful Christmas Eve.

1. happiness and sunshine
   miserliness and misanthropy
2. lollypops and rainbows
   disgust and misery

Scrooge's last name has come into the English language since the story was first released in 1843. It has come to mean miserliness and misanthropy.

1. it was always said to take a bath with rubber duckies.
   it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
2. it was always said he was a cruel and evil man.
   it was always said he could never change.

The last citation provides a nice summary of the change that Scrooge went through in the story - for even someone who once loathed Christmas can now embrace and enjoy it.

1. William Makepeace Thackeray
   Edgar Allen Poe
2. Charles Dickens
   Peter Parley

Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol." He was an English writer and social critic. He is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

1. Seasons Greetings
   Happy Holidays
2. Merry Christmas
   Happy Hanukkah

"Merry Christmas" was popularized after Scrooge exclaims, "I am as merry as a school-boy. A merry Christmas to everybody!" and heartily exchanges the wish to all he meets.

1. Jacob Marley's grave
   The local hospital
2. His childhood home
   The Ghost takes his hand and flies with him over London. They first visit Scrooge's old boarding school

The Ghost of Christmas Past first takes Scrooge's hand and they fly over London. They then visit Scrooge's old boarding school where he stayed alone but for his books while his schoolmates returned to their homes for the Christmas holidays. The Ghost then shows him when he picked up his sister from boarding school and she claims that he has changed and is now kinder than their father is, as he had left them alone during the holidays.

1. at the beginning of the novel
   at the end of the novel
2. towards the middle
   not in this story

This line appears toward the beginning of the novel. Dickens included this because of a dream. He had dreamt that one of his good friends was pronounced to be “as dead Sir . . . as a door-nail.”

1. Death
   Cheer
2. Joy
   Doom

Scrooge was already very upset when he was shown the children underneath the Ghost of Christmas Present's robe. Seeing the children and the word, Ebenezer Scrooge seems to get even more upset and asks the Spirit to cover them because he does not wish to see them anymore.

1. "I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
   “No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused.”
2. “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
   "These are the shadows of things that have been. That they are what they are, do not blame me!"

This leaves Scrooge angered. Scrooge extinguishes the spirit with his cap and finds himself back in his bedroom, with the time on the clock not being changed.

1. never
   50 years
2. two years
   20 years, then reissued now and then

A Christmas Carol has never been out of print. It has been popular ever since it was published. As a result, it has been adapted many times for film, stage, opera, and other media.

1. Ignorance; Want
   Want; Ignorance
2. Desire; Wealth
   Happiness; Joy

"Spirit. are they yours." Scrooge could say no more. "They are Man's,' said the Spirit, looking down upon them. "And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want." -Chapter 3

1. He was indifferent
   He hated it
2. He loved it
   He felt so/so

Charles Dickens loved to celebrate Christmas. He always said his father was best at Christmas. His favorite time during the holidays was Twelfth Night, the feast of the Epiphany.

1. The Ghost of Christmas Present
   The Ghost of Christmas Past
2. The Ghost of Christmas
   The Ghost of Christmas Future

The Ghost of Christmas Present next visits Scrooge. The Spirit closely resembles Father Christmas from local folklore. He carries a large torch, made to resemble a cornucopia, and appears accompanied by a great feast.

1. Four
   Five
2. Two
   Three

Scrooge is visited by a total of four ghosts on Christmas Eve. He is visited by Jacob Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas-Yet-to-Come.

1. 1903
   1993
2. 1867
   December 1843

"A Christmas Carol" was first published in London by Chapman & Hall. It was released on December 19, 1843. The novel was instantly successful. Initially six thousand copies of the book were printed. More copies were ordered after the first printing was sold in only five days.

1. three
   two
2. one
   five

Jacob Marley's ghost tells Scrooge he only has one chance to avoid the same fate as him in the afterlife. Marley tells Scrooge to pay close attention and listen to the spirits that will visit him or risk being cursed to carry chains of his own that are much longer than Marley's chains.

1. Uncle Fred's house; a dinner feast
   Cousin George's house; a dinner feast
2. Bob Cratchit's house; Bob's younger ill son, Tiny Tim
   Bob Cratchit's house; a dinner feast

The Ghost of Christmas Present next takes Scrooge to Bob Cratchit's family feast, and introduces his youngest son, Tiny Tim. Bob's son is full of simple happiness, despite being seriously ill. The spirit informs Scrooge that Tiny Tim will soon die unless the course of events changes.

1. He loved Christmas
   He wanted a story to bring people together at Christmas time
2. Dickens' response to a government report on the dreadful conditions experienced by child laborers in mines and factories.
   He stole the idea from his nephew

Dickens wrote the tale in response to reading a government report on the dreadful conditions experienced by child labourers in mines and factories. Dickens set aside "Martin Chuzzlewit," which was the current novel-in-progress, to deliver what he referred to as "a hammer blow on behalf of the poor man's child."

1. working when everyone else is celebrating the holiday
   making dinner
2. enjoying a Christmas party hosted by his first boss, Mr. Fezziwig
   having dinner with his family

The spirit then shows Scrooge attending a Christmas party hosted by his first boss, Mr. Fezziwig. His first boss was a kind and loving man, who treated Scrooge like a son, and was more compassionate to him than his own father was.

1. around the city
   around the town
2. around the village
   around the market

The Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge around the city of London. He shows him scenes of festivity and also deprivation that are happening as they watch, sprinkling a little warmth from his torch as he travels.