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Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)
What was Scrooge’s “the best and happiest” realization? (pg. 79)
Describe Scrooge’s general behavior after finding himself back in his own room? (pg. 79-80)
How many days did this whole experience with the Spirits take? (pg. 80)
What did Scrooge send the boy in the street to do? (pg. 81)
What did Scrooge say to himself that he would “love it, as long as I live!” (pg. 81)
What did Scrooge do the whole time, “till he cried” while he was making arrangements for the turkey? (pg. 82)
Who did Scrooge run into on the street, whom he met in Stave 1, and what did Scrooge do? (pg. 82-83)
Where did Scrooge go immediately after that encounter? (pg. 83)
What door did Scrooge pass “a dozen times, before he had the courage to go up and knock”? (pg. 83)
How did Bob react at first to Scrooge’s behavior? (pg. 84-85)
What are some of the results of Scrooge being “better than his word”? (pg. 85)
Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)
In Stave 1, just after Scrooge dismissed the men collecting money for the poor, there is mention of the church and its bell (pg. 8). Compare that description with the church bells here in Stave 5 (pg. 80). What might we make of this comparison?
Why would Scrooge send the turkey to the Cratchit’s anonymously? (pg. 81)
The text says, “He looked so irresistibly pleasant, in a word, that three or four good-humoured fellows said, ‘Good morning, sir! A merry Christmas to you!’” (pg. 82) Compare this to what is said in Stave 1 (pg. 2-3) about what people would do when they encountered Scrooge on the street. What is different and why is it different?
Scrooge startled his nephew’s wife upon entering the room. The text says, “Scrooge had forgotten, for the moment, about her sitting in the corner with the footstool, or he wouldn’t have done it, on any account.” (pg. 84) What is Dickens implying?
What does Dickens mean when he says that Scrooge was “wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset.” (pg. 85)
Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)
“People never change” is a common, yet cynical, statement. Is it true or false? Why do you think what you do? If people do change then what is it that makes them change? Explain your answer.
Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)
Read Galatians 5:22-24. How would you relate this passage to our present reading?
Read 2 Samuel 6:16-23. What connection can we make between this passage and Stave 5 of A Christmas Carol?
Read Matthew 13:44-46. How is Scrooge’s story like these parables?
Read Ephesians 2:8-10. How do these verses characterize Scrooge’s story?
Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)
Joy, Courage