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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) Christmas.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) New Year's.
(d) Halloween.

2. How does Scrooge respond to seeing the countryside?
(a) He is enraged.
(b) He begins to laugh.
(c) He is confused.
(d) He begins to cry.

3. What is used to heat Scrooge's warehouse?
(a) Gasoline.
(b) Wood.
(c) Coal.
(d) Kerosine.

4. What does the spirit regretfully tell Scrooge about Fan?
(a) That she has grown miserly.
(b) That she has remarried.
(c) That she has forgotten Scrooge.
(d) That she has died.

5. What is Scrooge's nephew's name?
(a) Will.
(b) Fred.
(c) Bob.
(d) Charlie.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the aura of Scrooge's first visitor described?

2. How does Scrooge feel about the Christmas Season?

3. What word best describes the weather on the day Scrooge is introduced?

4. What has Marley come to do to Scrooge?

5. What are the men who are collecting money on Christmas Eve, using the money for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marley beckon Scrooge to see outside his bedroom window and how does Scrooge react?

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

3. How did Belle's life turn out after her time with Scrooge?

4. What does Belle notice that has changed about Scrooge, and how does she react?

5. What does Scrooge overhear Belle and her husband discussing, and how does he react?

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

7. Who is Belle?

8. Who are the two men that come to Scrooge's door, and what do they ask of him?

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

10. What is the conversation that transpires between Bob Cratchit and Scrooge about time off from work?

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