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Do you understand the text in A Christmas Carol?
A Christmas Carol - Understanding the Text
This GCSE English Literature quiz challenges you on understanding the text of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Before you can analyse or write about a text, you need to understand it. Although this seems obvious, it is not always easy. After all, if authors merely had a simple message to convey, it would not take them thousands of words to do so! Reading a text from long ago, or from another country, or even one written in a strong dialect can make the task more difficult. It often takes a little time to get used to how a particular author writes.
Authors use many methods in order to convey meaning.
1 .
Why is the novella divided into five staves rather than five chapters?
The word "stave" is related to "staff" and reminds the reader of Scrooge's travels
Each "stave" represents a verse of the Christmas Carol of the title
The word "stave" reminds the reader of Scrooge's miserly behaviour
A "stave" is an old-fashioned name for a chapter
A stave is a verse, so this Christmas Carol has five verses. Can you imagine the final stave as the last verse of a carol being sung loudly and joyfully?
2 .
How does the Ghost of Christmas Present appear to Scrooge?
As a figure of empty pleasure
As a figure of sweet regret
As a figure of plenty
As a figure of carelessness
The Spirit of Christmas Present is surrounded by plenteous foods: meat, fruits, cakes and punch. He is dressed luxuriously in a furred robe and is characterised by an open hand and a magical torch with which to season the celebrations of poor people
3 .
What is Scrooge's reason for refusing to give charitably to the two "portly" gentlemen?
He does not have much money
He already supports prisons and workhouses through paying rates
He believes that Christmas is not the best time to give charitably
He does not believe that anyone is actually poor enough to need financial help
Scrooge believes that the poor are idle and also that their welfare is none of his business. The poor should take themselves to prison or to the workhouse, in his view
4 .
Where does Scrooge spend Christmas Day once the visits of the various spirits have passed?
At the home of the Cratchits
At a local inn
At his own home
At his nephew Fred's home
Scrooge anonymously sends a turkey to the Cratchits and unexpectedly accepts Fred's annual invitation to Christmas dinner
5 .
Where is the first place which the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge?
Mr Fezziwig's Christmas party
Belle's sitting room
His school
The place where he and Belle broke off their engagement
Scrooge feels pity at the sight of his younger self abandoned by all the other boys returning home for Christmas
6 .
The Ghost of Christmas Present hides two children beneath his robes. These are allegorical figures for which of the following?
Ignorance and Want
Hunger and Strife
Poverty and Sickness
Loneliness and Fear
Scrooge is horrified at the sight of these terrible offspring of humankind's neglect and is mortified by the Spirit repeating his own cruel words back to him: "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"
7 .
What is the first clue that A Christmas Carol is a ghost story?
The title
The door knocker's transformation into Marley's face
The sudden ringing of all the bells in the house
Jacob Marley's apparition
The full title of the novella is A Christmas Carol [in Prose] Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
8 .
Why does Scrooge object to giving Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off?
He is worried that they will have to work twice as hard on the day after Christmas
He is worried that he will not be able to cope with the workload by himself
He worries that he will not have the money to pay Bob's wages
He believes he is being cheated by having to pay Bob holiday wages
Scrooge feels himself to be pickpocketed by the requirement that he pay Bob money to take Christmas Day off
9 .
The Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge his past self taking comfort in books, his sister Fan, his beloved former boss Fezziwig, and Belle and her family. What do these scenes have in common?
They represent the necessary stages in Scrooge's growth into a good businessman
They represent all that Scrooge has lost in life
They represent the good choices Scrooge has made in life
All of the above
Scrooge has lost love and simple joys as his worship of gold has grown
10 .
The visit of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is concerned with which of the following?
Plenty
Work
Death
Gratitude
Scrooge sees that no one mourns his own death and sees as well the contrast with the way that Tiny Tim is remembered after his death
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