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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What holiday is being celebrated when the story opens?
(a) Halloween.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) New Year's.
(d) Christmas.

2. Through what does the first visitor travel with Scrooge?
(a) His hopes.
(b) His memories.
(c) His dreams.
(d) His nightmares.

3. How is it signaled to Scrooge that there is a visitor in his room?
(a) The hands of his clock spin backward.
(b) His bed begins to shake.
(c) The windows fly open.
(d) The bed curtains are parted.

4. What does Marley say about his own spirit?
(a) That it is broken.
(b) That it is lively.
(c) That it is repaired.
(d) That it is doomed.

5. What does Dickens say does not affect Scrooge?
(a) Music.
(b) Light.
(c) Weather.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the merchant under whom Scrooge apprenticed?

2. What type of visitors does Marley tell Scrooge to expect?

3. When Scrooge awakens, why does he vow to stay awake until one o'clock?

4. What instrument sounds before Jacob Marley appears?

5. Where was Scrooge left by his family during the holiday season?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Scrooge immediately after Marley left?

2. How does the first spirit take Scrooge back in time?

3. What does Scrooge think when he awakens at midnight?

4. How does Scrooge react to the scenes from his childhood in the countryside?

5. What does Jacob Marley inform Scrooge will happen over the course of the next few nights?

6. What does the Ghost of Christmas Past look like?

7. How is London described in the opening of the novel?

8. What other unusual sights and sounds plague Scrooge as he enters his home?

9. When Scrooge realizes that it is midnight and not noon, why does he vow to stay awake?

10. Who is Fred, and what happens when he comes to visit Scrooge?

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