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

2. How does Scrooge feel toward the third Spirit?
(a) He is eager to learn the Spirit's lesson.
(b) He is tired of having so many visitors.
(c) He is anxious to get back home.
(d) He believes he can trick the Spirit into leaving him alone.

3. Who does Scrooge decide that he would like to catch a glimpse of now that he has recognized that he is seeing the future?
(a) Tiny Tim.
(b) Jacob Marley.
(c) Bob Cratchit.
(d) Himself.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Scrooge first sees the third Spirit, what does he do involuntarily?

3. Which family does the Spirit take Scrooge to revisit?

4. Why is the family that Scrooge visits so happy to hear of the death of the dead man?

5. When Scrooge awakens before his second visitor, what has filled his room?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the party-goers respond to Fred's opinion of his uncle?

2. What has changed about the Cratchit family when Scrooge is taken to revisit them?

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

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

5. What question did Scrooge have for the third Spirit when they were standing in the cemetery?

6. What clings to the robe of the second spirit?

7. What are the businessmen in the stock exchange discussing?

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

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

10. What does Scrooge see approaching him as the second Spirit leaves him and how does he react?

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