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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary character does Scrooge imagine that he is friends with as a young boy?

2. How does Scrooge feel about the Christmas Season?

3. How is it signaled to Scrooge that there is a visitor in his room?

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

5. Who is Belle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Scrooge see in the scene involving his old boss?

2. What does Scrooge see in the first scene from his childhood?

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

4. Who is Belle?

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

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

7. Why is Scrooge's workplace so cold?

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

9. Who is Jacob Marley, and what does the reader learn about him right away?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

With the second visitor, Scrooge was taken to see the ways that people in his community celebrate Christmas.

Part 1.) Describe one scene that Scrooge witnessed on Christmas Day.

Part 2.) Describe Scrooge's reaction to this scene. Was there anything interesting / unexpected in his response?

Part 3.) Describe how you believe witnessing this event prompted the change in Scrooge's character at the end of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Take some time to compare / contrast the three main spirits that come to visit Scrooge. What is the same about them? What is different? Why do you think it was important that Scrooge meet all three of them, rather than just one?

Essay Topic 3

In the opening chapter of the novel, Charles Dickens chooses to omit many important bits of information. Identify one piece of information that Dickens omitted, and explain why you think the author chose to leave his reader in the dark.

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