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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the state of the two children who grasp at the Spirit's robe?
(a) They are healthy.
(b) They are sickly.
(c) They are fat.
(d) They are mute.

2. How does Scrooge react to the news of Tim's future?
(a) He is proud.
(b) He is confused.
(c) He is ashamed.
(d) He is apathetic.

3. What is the general emotion surrounding the death of the man in town?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Happiness.

4. Whose home does the second visitor first take Scrooge to?
(a) His nephew Fred's.
(b) Jacob Marley's.
(c) Old Fezziwig's.
(d) Bob Cratchit's.

5. Which of the following does NOT describe the Scrooge's second visitor?
(a) He had short, red hair.
(b) He wore holly in a wreath on his head.
(c) He had bare feet.
(d) He was wearing a green robe.

6. At what time does the Spirit leave Scrooge?
(a) Six.
(b) Midnight.
(c) One.
(d) Noon.

7. How does Bob Cratchit carry around Tiny Tim?
(a) In his arms.
(b) In his hands.
(c) On his back.
(d) On his shoulders.

8. What type of men are discussing the death?
(a) Priests.
(b) Homeless men.
(c) Businessmen.
(d) Politicians.

9. What does Scrooge promise to honor, from the bottom of his heart?
(a) Family.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Money.
(d) The Spirit.

10. Fill in the blank: What message does the Cratchit family embrace? That even in _______ there is hope.
(a) Death.
(b) Sickness.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Poverty.

11. Who gives the Christmas toast in the Cratchit home?
(a) Tim.
(b) Bob.
(c) Peter.
(d) Martha.

12. Who does the Spirit say that the children belong to?
(a) To the heavens.
(b) To Man.
(c) To the Spirit world.
(d) To Scrooge.

13. Before his second visitor, how does Scrooge wake himself?
(a) With a shout.
(b) With a hiccup.
(c) With a cough.
(d) With a snore.

14. What does the Cratchit family believe about the death of their family member?
(a) That it is a Christmas gift.
(b) That it will tear them apart.
(c) That it is the fault of Ebenezer Scrooge.
(d) That it will bring them closer together.

15. Which of the following does NOT describe the third Spirit?
(a) He was mute.
(b) He was tall.
(c) He was kind
(d) He was dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Spirit ask Scrooge to touch in order to be transported?

2. Where is Scrooge when he realizes that in the future he will be dead?

3. Who does Fred claim is being harmed by Scrooge's attitude?

4. What has the laundress stolen from the dead body, which Scrooge finds most shocking?

5. What is the Spirit's response to the question of whether these are the things that will surely come to pass?

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