A Christmas Carol Final Test: Whole-Novella Quiz

A Christmas Carol Whole Novella questions

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1. In what order do the three Spirits come to Scrooge?
   Yet To Come, Past, Present · Past, Present, Yet To Come · Past, Yet To Come, Present · Present, Past, Yet To Come
2. Who was Jacob Marley to Scrooge?
   His rival in the corn trade · His first employer in the City · His business partner and sole friend · His father's brother and legal guardian
3. What does Tiny Tim say at the end of the Cratchits' Christmas toast?
   Long life to the Founder of the Feast · God save you, merry gentlemen · A merry Christmas to us all · God bless us, every one
4. Why does Fred go on inviting his uncle to dinner despite the refusals?
   Because he pities him and will ask each year · Because his mother Fan asked it of him · Because he hopes to inherit the business · Because his wife insists on the courtesy of it
5. What is Fan's place in the story?
   Mrs Cratchit's sister, a milliner · Scrooge's sister, and Fred's mother · Fezziwig's eldest daughter · Scrooge's first love, later married
6. What does the Ghost of Christmas Past show Scrooge of Belle's later life?
   A shop she keeps near Fezziwig's old yard · A lonely lodging and an early widowhood there · A houseful of children and a kind husband · A grave beside Fan's in the churchyard
7. Which of the two children under its robe does the Ghost of Christmas Present tell Scrooge to beware most?
   Both equally, and all of their degree · The girl Want, who clings to the robe · Neither, since both are beyond saving · The boy Ignorance, with Doom on his brow
8. How does Dickens describe Scrooge's secretiveness in the opening stave?
   Self-contained, and solitary as an oyster · Dark and close as the fog out in the street · Shut up tight as a padlocked cash-box · Silent and cold as the grave he dreads
9. What does the Cratchits' Christmas dinner show about the family's means?
   They eat at the baker's with the other lodgers · A small goose and a pudding feed them all · They go without any dinner that year · They dine on turkey sent by a neighbour
10. What is the first use Scrooge puts his money to after his change?
    Buying a new coal-scuttle for the office · Settling Bob Cratchit's doctor's bills in full · Sending the Cratchits a turkey, anonymously · Paying for a seat at his nephew's table

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Original questions written for Pagine. Quotations are from the public-domain text.