Starter quiz
- Which of the following might be considered an act of charity?
- throwing our clothes out
- letting your friend copy your homework
- volunteering at a local food bank ✓
- donating money to a natural disaster relief fund ✓
- going to the cinema with your sibling
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- Who comes and asks Scrooge for a charitable donation in Stave 1 of 'A Christmas Carol'?
- Marley's Ghost
- The Ghost of Christmas Present
- Fred
- the caroller boy
- the two portly gentlemen ✓
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- How does Scrooge respond to the portly gentlemen in Stave 1 of 'A Christmas Carol'?
- He shuns them and accuses them of being wicked and immoral people.
- He resents them for wasting his time and tries to get rid of them quickly. ✓
- He is rude to them and dismisses the good work that they do. ✓
- He is upset with them for not asking him for a donation sooner.
- He is indifferent to them and ignores them.
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- Complete the quotation from 'A Christmas Carol': "If they would rather die...they had better do it, and decrease the ______ population."
- 'surplus' ✓
- What does Scrooge learn from watching Fezziwig's Christmas party in Stave 2 of 'A Christmas Carol'?
- He learns how to throw a successful party that everyone enjoys.
- He learns the importance of family and communication.
- He learns that a little bit of philanthropy can make a lot of people happy, ✓
- He understands the price of happiness - money does buy happiness.
- He learns that throwing parties and welcoming everybody makes you moral.
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- In Stave 5 of 'A Christmas Carol', when Scrooge donates an undisclosed amount of money to the poor, why doesn't Dickens tell us how much he donates?
- because the amount was not very much and Scrooge was embarrassed
- so that people who have less money are not put off by the vast sum ✓
- because it doesn't matter how much he donated - it was about the act of donating ✓
- because Dickens did not want to promote excessive charity
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