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English (Edexcel)
A Christmas Carol: a ghost story

Starter quiz

  • Match the stave from 'A Christmas Carol' up to the ghost who visits Scrooge in that stave.
    • Stave 1
      ⇔
      Marley's Ghost ✓
    • Stave 2
      ⇔
      The Ghost of Christmas Past ✓
    • Stave 3
      ⇔
      The Ghost of Christmas Present ✓
    • Stave 4
      ⇔
      The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come ✓
  • Match the allusion Dickens makes to the ghost he uses to make the allusion in 'A Christmas Carol'.
    • Victorian Father Christmas
      ⇔
      The Ghost of Christmas Present ✓
    • The German Christkindl
      ⇔
      The Ghost of Christmas Past ✓
    • The Grim Reaper
      ⇔
      The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come ✓
  • In 'A Christmas Carol', which spirit shows Scrooge the scenes of Mrs Dilber and her criminal friends bargaining over some stolen possessions?
    • Marley's Ghost
    • The Ghost of Christmas Past
    • The Ghost of Christmas Present
    • The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come  ✓
  • In 'A Christmas Carol', which spirit has the characters Ignorance and Want with it?
    • Marley's Ghost
    • The Ghost of Christmas Past
    • The Ghost of Christmas Present  ✓
    • The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
  • In 'A Christmas Carol', which spirit repeats Scrooge's words 'Are there no prisons?' back to him?
    • Marley's Ghost
    • The Ghost of Christmas Past
    • The Ghost of Christmas Present  ✓
    • The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
  • In Stave 1 of 'A Christmas Carol', Dickens uses the portly gentlemen as a mouthpiece to directly contradict the common ______ beliefs and ideologies that pervaded Victorian society at the time.
    • 'Malthusian' ✓
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