Key Quotations Flashcards
All 30 cards in this deck
What two words does Scrooge reply to Fred’s “A merry Christmas, uncle!”?
“Bah!” and “Humbug!” (Stave 1).
Complete the quotation: “secret, and self-contained, and solitary …”
“… as an oyster.” The narrator on Scrooge (Stave 1).
Complete the quotation: “Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out …”
“… generous fire.” The narrator on Scrooge (Stave 1).
Complete the quotation: “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, …”
“… old sinner!” The narrator on Scrooge (Stave 1).
Complete the quotation: “Darkness is cheap, …”
“… and Scrooge liked it.” The narrator (Stave 1).
Who says “every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding”?
Scrooge, to Fred (Stave 1).
Who describes people as “fellow-passengers to the grave” at Christmas?
Fred, defending Christmas to Scrooge (Stave 1).
Who asks “Are there no prisons?”
Scrooge, to the charity collectors (Stave 1); the Ghost of Christmas Present repeats it (Stave 3).
Complete the quotation: “If they would rather die, … they had better do it, and …”
“… decrease the surplus population.” Scrooge (Stave 1).
Who says “I wear the chain I forged in life”?
Marley’s Ghost (Stave 1).
Complete the quotation: “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was …”
“… my business.” Marley’s Ghost (Stave 1).
Who says “A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still”?
The Ghost of Christmas Past, at the school (Stave 2).
Who says “Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven!”?
Fan, fetching Scrooge from school (Stave 2).
Complete the quotation: “The happiness he gives, is quite as great as …”
“… if it cost a fortune.” Scrooge, about Fezziwig (Stave 2).
Who says “Another idol has displaced me”?
Belle, to the young Scrooge (Stave 2).
Who says “Come in! and know me better, man!”?
The Ghost of Christmas Present (Stave 3).
Who says “God bless us every one!”?
Tiny Tim, at the Cratchits’ Christmas dinner (Stave 3).
Complete the quotation: “I see a vacant seat … in the poor chimney-corner, and …”
“… a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.” The Ghost of Christmas Present (Stave 3).
Which ghost calls Scrooge “the Insect on the leaf”?
The Ghost of Christmas Present (Stave 3).
Who toasts Scrooge as “the Founder of the Feast”?
Bob Cratchit (Stave 3).
Who calls Scrooge an “odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man”?
Mrs Cratchit (Stave 3).
Complete the quotation: “This boy is Ignorance. …”
“… This girl is Want.” The Ghost of Christmas Present (Stave 3).
Complete the quotation: “Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, …”
“… wolfish.” The narrator describing Ignorance and Want (Stave 3).
Who says “Old Scratch has got his own at last, hey?”
A wealthy businessman, about the dead man (Stave 4).
Who says “He frightened every one away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead!”?
The charwoman, in Old Joe’s shop (Stave 4).
Complete the quotation: “plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, …”
“… uncared for.” The dead man’s body (Stave 4).
Complete the quotation: “I am not the man I was. …”
“… I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse.” Scrooge (Stave 4).
Complete the quotation: “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and …”
“… try to keep it all the year.” Scrooge (Stave 4).
Complete the quotation: “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, …”
“… I am as merry as a schoolboy.” Scrooge (Stave 5).
Complete the quotation: “he knew how to keep Christmas well, if …”
“… any man alive possessed the knowledge.” The narrator (Stave 5).