Q 01/05

What is the name of Scrooge's deceased business partner in A Christmas Carol?

A) Bob Marley

B) Thomas Marley

C) Jacob Marley

D) William Marley

Answer · why

C) Jacob Marley

Jacob Marley, Scrooge's late partner, returns as a ghost on Christmas Eve to warn him that three spirits will visit, offering him a chance to escape M...

Q 02/05

What is Scrooge's famous catchphrase expressing his disdain for Christmas?

A) Bah! Humbug!

B) Poppycock!

C) Balderdash!

D) Rubbish!

Answer · why

A) Bah! Humbug!

He first says it when his nephew bursts into the counting-house full of good cheer. "Humbug" meant a fraud or hoax, and the retort has since entered t...

Q 03/05

How many brothers does the Ghost of Christmas Present say he has?

A) More than eighteen hundred

B) Only two, Past and Yet to Come

C) Exactly three hundred

D) Fewer than a dozen

Answer · why

A) More than eighteen hundred

'More than eighteen hundred,' the Ghost answers, one brother for every Christmas since the first; each spirit lives a single day, and this one ages vi...

Q 04/05

How much does Scrooge pay Bob Cratchit a week?

A) Ten shillings

B) Fifteen shillings

C) Twenty shillings

D) One pound

Answer · why

B) Fifteen shillings

Dickens jokes that Bob had "but fifteen 'Bob' a-week himself" — a bob being slang for a shilling — and on that he keeps a wife and six children.

Q 05/05

What are Tiny Tim's famous last words in the story?

A) A merry Christmas to all!

B) Happy Christmas, Father!

C) Peace and joy to everyone!

D) God bless us, every one!

Answer · why

D) God bless us, every one!

'God bless us, every one!' is Tiny Tim's toast round the Cratchit fire on Christmas Day, and Dickens makes it the closing line of the whole book.