1. A Christmas Carol Stave II Questions Write down each question in your binder. Use RACE to answer each one. On the test, you will have to use RACE.  
At what time does the first ghost visit Scrooge? (use RACE)
What age of a person does the first ghost look like? (use RACE)
What does Scrooge have to do to be able to fly? (use RACE)
What is the fair young girl in the mourning dress saying to Scrooge? (use RACE)
Who says that he saw Scrooge working in the office while his partner was really sick? (use RACE)
Was Scrooge married? What happened to his marriage? (use RACE)
What does the woman next to Scrooge mean when she says another idol has replaced her? What is an idol? What idol was she referring to? Explain. (use RACE)
As they have earned more money, why is it a big deal to the woman that Scrooge has changed? Who is the woman that is worried about his effecting Scrooge? (use RACE)
Why do you think Scrooge has such a hard time watching the scenes from his past? (use RACE)
Describe Christmas Past. What are his/her characteristics? (use RACE)
Where did Christmas Past take Scrooge? What did he see? Put it in order from the first “scene” Scrooge saw to the last. Explain each scene and how Scrooge’s perspective changed. (hint: there should be 5 explanations) [use RACE]

2. 1. At what time does the first ghost visit Scrooge?
The first ghost visits Scrooge at 1a.m.

3. 2. What age of a person does the first ghost look like?
The first ghost looks both young and old. “It was a strange figure—like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through... “

4. 3. What does Scrooge have to do to be able to fly?
For Scrooge to be able to fly the spirit must touch his heart. “’Bear but a touch of my hand there,’ said the spirit, laying it upon his heart, ‘and you shall be upheld in more than this!’”

5. 4. What is the fair young girl in the mourning dress saying to Scrooge?
In A Christmas Carol, the fair young woman in the mourning dress is Belle, Scrooge's former fiance.
“Scrooge receives a glimpse of the past when the ghost of Christmas Past leads him through many pertinent scenes during his younger years. When he sees the scene of himself with the beautiful Belle, his heart is broken. In the scene, Belle is breaking off her engagement to Scrooge. She tells him that she has been replaced in...”

6. 5. Who says that he saw Scrooge working in the office while his partner was really sick?
Scrooge was seen in his office working alone by Belle’s husband.

7. 6. Was Scrooge married? What happened to his marriage? (use RACE)
Scrooge was engaged to be married. However, when his bride-to-be expressed concerns about Scrooge's obsession with money, the wedding was called off.

8. 7. What does the woman next to Scrooge mean when she says another idol has replaced her? What is an idol? What idol was she referring to? Explain. (use RACE)
The women means that Scrooge has idolized wealth above all else. An idol is an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship. She was referring to money as an idol.

9. 8. As they have earned more money, why is it a big deal to the woman that Scrooge has changed? Who is the woman that is worried about this effecting Scrooge? (use RACE)
The woman wants to be the most important thing in his life. The woman is Belle, Scrooge’s former fiancé.

10. 9. Why do you think Scrooge has such a hard time watching the scenes from his past? (use RACE)
Scrooge has a hard time watching the scenes from his past because he regrets his decisions in life. He can do nothing to change the past.

11. 10. Describe Christmas Past. What are his/her characteristics
10. Describe Christmas Past. What are his/her characteristics? (use RACE)
The Ghost of Christmas Past is the first of the three spirits (after the visitation by Jacob Marley, his former business partner) to haunt Ebenezer Scrooge. This angelic spirit shows Scrooge scenes from his past that occurred on or around Christmas, in order to demonstrate to him the necessity of changing his ways, as well as to show the reader how Scrooge came to be a bitter, cold-hearted miser. According to Dickens' novel, the Ghost of Christmas Past appears to Scrooge as a white-robed, androgynous figure of indeterminate age. It has on its head a blazing light, reminiscent of a candle flame, and carries a metal cap, made in the shape of a candle extinguisher. “...being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom where in they melted away.”

12. 11. Where did Christmas Past take Scrooge. What did he see
11. Where did Christmas Past take Scrooge? What did he see? Put it in order from the first “scene” Scrooge saw to the last. Explain each scene and how Scrooge’s perspective changed. (hint: there should be 5 explanations) [use RACE]
Christmas Past took Scrooge:
1. boarding school (when he was young)
2. boarding school (when Fan brought him home)
3. Fezziwig’s
4. Belle telling him she is leaving him
5. him seeing Belle with her new family