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Nineteenth-century novel, Year 10: Scrooge, Marley and the three Spirits (A Christmas Carol option)

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English Literature · Nineteenth-century novel, Year 10: Scrooge, Marley and the three Spirits (A Christmas Carol option)Professor Quill
Fill the gapAnswer in your head…The narrator's first description of Scrooge in Stave One ends: “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old ____!”
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sinner

HintA word from religion for someone who does wrong.

The whySeven adjectives pile up before the noun, most of them about hands closing on money. The list makes the reader feel how tight his grip is.

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Fill the gapsAnswer in your head…Two comparisons from the opening description of Scrooge: “Hard and sharp as ____” and “solitary as an ____”.
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flint; oyster

HintOne is a stone that gives sparks; the other is a shellfish shut tight in its shell.

The whyThe flint is one “from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire”. An oyster is closed and alone, though one reading notes that an oyster can hold a pearl.

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Fill the gapAnswer in your head…Scrooge's answer in Stave One when told that many poor people would rather die than go to the workhouse: “If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus ____.”
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population

HintThe number of people in a country.

The whyHe talks about the poor as a number that is too large. The Ghost of Christmas Present throws these exact words back at him in Stave Three.

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Answer in your head…In Stave Two the first Spirit shows Scrooge a schoolroom. What does he see there that makes him weep?
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Himself as a lonely boy, left behind at school at Christmas

HintThe other boys have all gone home.

The whyThe Spirit says “A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.” It is the first sign that the old man can feel, and it suggests where his coldness began.

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Fill the gapsAnswer in your head…Scrooge on Christmas morning in Stave Five: “I am as light as a ____, I am as happy as an ____, I am as merry as a ____.”
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feather; angel; schoolboy

HintSomething that floats, a being from heaven, and a child in class.

The whyThe book opened with a run of hard, cold similes for him. It ends with a run of light, joyful ones: the change is written into the same technique.

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Fill the gapAnswer in your head…Marley's Ghost explains what he drags behind him: “I wear the ____ I forged in life”.
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chain

HintLinked metal that holds a prisoner.

The whyHe goes on: “I made it link by link, and yard by yard”. He tells Scrooge that his own is already longer and heavier.

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Answer in your head…What is Marley's chain made of?
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Cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses, all in steel

HintThe tools of a money-lender's trade.

The whyThe things he cared about in life have become the weight he must carry in death. It is one of the book's clearest symbols.

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Fill the gapAnswer in your head…When Scrooge says Marley was always a good man of business, the Ghost cries: “____ was my business.”
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Mankind

HintA word for all people.

The whyHe lists what he should have cared about: “charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence”. This is the book's argument in one line.

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Answer in your head…At the end of Stave Two Scrooge seizes the Spirit's cap and presses it down over its head. What is he trying to do?
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Put out its light, so that he will be shown no more

HintThe cap is shaped like a candle extinguisher.

The whyThe light streams out from under the cap all the same. One reading: once he has looked at his past honestly, the memory cannot be shut away again.

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Answer in your head…Which Spirit is described as “a jolly Giant”, in a green robe, holding a torch and sitting among heaps of food?
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The Ghost of Christmas Present

HintThe second of the three.

The whyHe stands for generosity and plenty. He ages through his one day and, before he goes, shows the two starved children hidden under his robe.

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Answer in your head…How does the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come communicate with Scrooge?
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It never speaks: it only points

HintIt is hidden in a black garment, with one hand showing.

The whyIts silence leaves Scrooge to work out the meaning for himself, and makes this the most frightening visit. The future says nothing because it is not yet fixed.

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