1. Charles Dickens
2. a) Christmas Eve 1843 in London
3. c) compassionate
4. Scrooge's deceased business partner
5. Seven years before the events of the story
6. d) He said: "Bah! Humbug!"
7. They asked for a donation for the poor.
8. He claims he is seeing things because he ate something that didn't agree with him.
9. a) His hometown where he was at a boarding school
10. Fezziwig was Scrooge's former employer.
11. She left him because he became obsessed with money and lost his capacity for love and kindness.
12. "Are you the Spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?"
13. d) All the above
14. Christmas Day
15. a) He visits his nephew Fred's house.
b) He sends a large turkey to the Cratchit family.
c) He gives Bob Cratchit a raise.
d) He becomes a second father to Tiny Tim.
16. A Christmas Carol was written by Charles Dickens. At first, we learn that a man called Marley, who was Scrooge's partner in their firm, is dead. We also learn that Scrooge is a mean person, who isn't getting any friends. He won't give anything to two men collecting money for the poor because he thinks they should go to the workhouse and he won't light a fire for his attitude even though he is freezing. At night he receives four visits. They are all ghosts. First, it is his old colleague. After that the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas yet to come show him different things that make Scrooge change his attitude and become a nice, compassionate man.
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