Q 01/05

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

A) Joseph 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

By calling Christmas 'humbug', what is Scrooge saying the holiday is?

A) A luxury

B) A bore

C) A fraud

D) A sin

Answer · why

C) A fraud

A fraud: 'humbug' began as eighteenth-century student slang for a hoax or deception, so Scrooge is dismissing the whole season as a sham; he first sna...

Q 03/05

In A Christmas Carol, which spirit tells Scrooge it has had more than eighteen hundred brothers?

A) Marley's Ghost

B) Christmas Past

C) Christmas Present

D) Christmas Yet to Come

Answer · why

C) Christmas Present

The Ghost of Christmas Present says so, and Scrooge mutters, 'A tremendous family to provide for!'; the spirit's life is brief, and Scrooge sees its h...

Q 04/05

Bob Cratchit's fifteen 'Bob' a week in A Christmas Carol puns on slang for which coin?

A) Farthing

B) Penny

C) Shilling

D) Guinea

Answer · why

C) Shilling

Shilling: the coin was known as a bob, so Dickens jokes that the clerk 'pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name'; on that he ke...

Q 05/05

Which line of Tiny Tim's closes A Christmas Carol?

A) Good health to us all!

B) Three cheers for 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 first heard at the Cratchits' Christmas dinner, where Tiny Tim, on a stool close to his father's side, is the last of th...