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6. When Scrooge is annoyed at Christmas he says what?

  • "Bah! Humbug!"
  • "Fiddlesticks!"
  • "Doh!"
  • "Darn it!"

7. Finish the quotation: He was a "squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old___"

  • miser
  • sinner
  • idiot
  • brute

8. Who is Scooge talking about when he said they should die and "decrease the surplus population"?

  • The portly gentlemen
  • The poor
  • The Cratchits
  • The three ghosts - past, present and Christmas yet to come

9. How does Dickens describe the dinner that Scrooge had that night?

  • cold
  • sad
  • melancholy
  • miserable

10. The quotation as "Solitary as an oyster" is the literary device of...

  • a simile
  • personification
  • onomatopoeia
  • metaphor

11. "Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator,...his sole mourner" - What literary device does Dickens use in this?

  • simile
  • Repetition of the word 'sole'
  • Personification
  • alliteration

12. Finish the quotation: "He was a ____________" hand at the grindstone".

  • cruel
  • miserly
  • tight-fisted
  • bony