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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 is the Spirit's response to the question of whether these are the things that will surely come to pass?
(a) The Spirit gives no answer.
(b) No, these things will not come to pass.
(c) Yes, they will pass certainly.
(d) These things may come to pass if things are not changed.

2. What is the name of the boy who grasps at the Spirit's robe?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Want.
(d) Malice.

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

4. In the streets of London, who does the Spirit sprinkle a mysterious water on?
(a) Those who were dancing.
(b) Those who were arguing.
(c) Those who were lonely.
(d) Those who were shopping.

5. Why is the family that Scrooge visits so happy to hear of the death of the dead man?
(a) Because the father will take over the dead man's job.
(b) Because they owed the dead man money.
(c) Because the dead man was a crooked politician.
(d) Because the dead man left them a large inheritance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tim's attitude to being ill?

2. Who says the line "Let me see some tenderness connected with a death" ?

3. Whose home does the second visitor first take Scrooge to?

4. How does the crowd respond to Fred's wishing of Scrooge's Christmas?

5. What kind of miners do Scrooge and the Spirit visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Scrooge awakens thinking he will soon see the second visitor?

2. What does Scrooge promise to the Spirit in exchange for a chance to change his fate?

3. What is significant about the appearance of the second spirit?

4. How are the Cratchit family responding to the death of Tiny Tim?

5. What is Scrooge's response to the things that he sees in the cemetery?

6. What is the state of Tiny Tim?

7. How does Scrooge react to the music and the games of Fred's Christmas party?

8. What does the Spirit inform Scrooge is the fate of Tiny Tim?

9. What is striking about the appearance of the third spirit?

10. What response did the community give to the Cratchit family following the death of Tiny Tim?

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