A Christmas Carol Stave 3 Quiz (Stave Three)

A Christmas Carol Stave 3 questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. How many brothers does the Ghost of Christmas Present say it has had?
   None at all, being the first · Exactly one, long since gone · More than eighteen hundred · More than three thousand
2. How does Mrs Cratchit respond when Bob proposes a toast to Mr Scrooge?
   She proposes a kinder toast of her own · She leaves the room until the toast is done · She refuses to touch her glass at all that night · She drinks only for Bob's sake and the Day's
3. When Scrooge asks whether Tiny Tim will live, how does the Spirit answer him?
   With a vacant seat and an ownerless crutch · With a flat refusal to speak of the future · By showing him the boy's grave at once · By promising the child will outlive Scrooge
4. What does the Spirit tell Scrooge about the two wretched children hidden in its robe?
   They are Scrooge's own childhood and Fan's · They are Ignorance and Want; beware the boy most · They are Famine and Plague, and both must be fed · They are the Cratchits' youngest, not shown before
5. At his nephew's party, what is the answer to the riddle in the game of Yes and No?
   Fred's own dog, kept out in the kitchen · A bear kept in a travelling menagerie · Scrooge himself, a growling animal in London · The old grey horse that drew the cab

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