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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does it take Scrooge to fall asleep after the spirit has left him?
(a) He falls asleep immediately.
(b) One week.
(c) One day.
(d) One hour.

2. How many visitors does Marley say will come to Scrooge in the night?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

3. How is it signaled to Scrooge that there is a visitor in his room?
(a) The windows fly open.
(b) His bed begins to shake.
(c) The bed curtains are parted.
(d) The hands of his clock spin backward.

4. What is the first mysterious sound that Scrooge hears?
(a) Doorbell ringing.
(b) Dogs barking.
(c) Party music.
(d) Raindrops falling.

5. What must Scrooge do in order to be taken back to his home?
(a) Dim the light of the spirit.
(b) Quiet the music of the spirit.
(c) Drain the blood of the spirit.
(d) Cut the hair of the spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Scrooge's nephew's name?

2. How many men come by to collect money from the neighborhood on Christmas Eve?

3. What is Marley's spirit forced to do?

4. Who does Scrooge believe should be confined to prisons and workhouses?

5. How does Scrooge feel about the way that people see him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Belle?

2. What does the Ghost of Christmas Past look like?

3. What happened to Scrooge immediately after Marley left?

4. What does Marley beckon Scrooge to see outside his bedroom window and how does Scrooge react?

5. What does Scrooge see in the first scene from his childhood?

6. Who is Jacob Marley, and what does the reader learn about him right away?

7. How does the first spirit take Scrooge back in time?

8. What does Jacob Marley inform Scrooge will happen over the course of the next few nights?

9. What does Scrooge overhear Belle and her husband discussing, and how does he react?

10. What is the appearance of Jacob Marley when he visits Scrooge in his bedroom?

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