"'Spirit!' said Scrooge, shuddering from head to foot. 'I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way now.'"
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Scrooge demonstrates that he has not yet understood the message of Christmas Yet to Come when he acknowledges that the example set by the un-mourned man "might be my own"
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Scrooge demonstrates that he has not yet understood the message of Christmas Yet to Come when he acknowledges that the example set by the un-mourned man "might" be his own
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Scrooge demonstrates that he has not yet understood the message of Christmas Yet to Come when he acknowledges that the "case of this unhappy man might be my own"
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All of the above
Q.2.
"The Grocers'! oh the Grocers'! nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sound, or that the twine and roller parted company so briskly, or that the canisters were rattled up and down like juggling tricks, or even that the blended scents of tea and coffee were so grateful to the nose."
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Dickens compares the "scenes" in the Grocers' to a performance "glimpsed" through the gaps in the shutters
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Dickens compares the scenes at the Grocers' to a performance, emphasizing exciting sights such as "canisters being rattled up and down like juggling tricks"
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Dickens compares the scenes at the Grocers' to a performance, emphasizing exciting sights such as containers being "rattled up and down like juggling tricks"
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Dickens compares the scenes at the Grocers' to a performance "glimpsed" through the "gaps" between the shutters
Q.3.
"Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!"
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Scrooge's laugh welcomes Christmas Day like the pealing bells. Their sound is echoed in the alliteration of the "l" in the phrase, "long, long line of brilliant laughs"
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"Long, long line of brilliant laughs" contains alliteration
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The "l" sound is alliterated in "long, long line of brilliant laughs"
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The phrase "long, long line of brilliant laughs" contains alliteration of the "l" sound
Q.4.
"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour."
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The narrator balances the infectious nature of "disease and sorrow" with the "irresistibly contagious" nature of joy
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The narrator presents laughter as infectious, comparing its ability to spread to a contagion
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The narrator presents the easy spread of joy as a "noble adjustment" to the equally easy spread of sorrow
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All of the above
Q.5.
"It isn't that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil."
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Scrooge praises Mr Fezziwig while forgetting that he makes "work" "burdensome" and a "toil" for his own employee, Bob
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Scrooge praises Mr Fezziwig while forgetting that he makes work "burdensome" and a "toil" for his own employee, Bob
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Scrooge praises Mr Fezziwig while forgetting that he makes work burdensome and a toil for his own employee, Bob
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Scrooge praises Mr Fezziwig while forgetting that he makes work "burdensome" and "toilsome" for his own employee, Bob
Q.6.
"Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!"
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Bob is told to "make up the fires" before "he dots another i"
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Scrooge tells Bob to "make up the fires" and "buy another coal-scuttle"
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Bob knows that Scrooge has changed when he orders him to "make up the fires" before "he dots another i"
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Scrooge's signals that his transformation is complete when he orders Bob to "make up the fires" before doing any more work
Q.7.
"The scaling him with chairs for ladders to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round the neck, pommel his back and kick his legs in irrepressible affection."
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The children's love for their father is conveyed ironically through violent imagery as they scale, "despoil", "pommel" and "kick" him in their search for presents
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The children's "affection" for their father is conveyed ironically through violent imagery as they "scale", "despoil", "pommel" and "kick" him in their search for presents
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The children love their father, even though they are almost "violent" as they besiege him for their presents
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The children love their father, even though they are almost "violent" as they "despoil" and ransack him for their presents
Q.8.
"'I wear the chain I forged in life,' replied the Ghost. 'I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.'"
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Jacob Marley "forged" his own "chain" "link by link" and "yard by yard" when he committed bad deeds "in life"
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Jacob Marley willingly chose his "chain" by forging it "link by link" and yard by yard
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The bad deeds which Jacob Marley committed in life have become a metaphoric chain chosen by "my own free will"
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The bad deeds which Jacob Marley committed in life have become a metaphoric chain chosen by his "own free will"
Q.9.
"It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death: it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh. It was a much greater surprise to Scrooge, to recognize it as his own nephew's."
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Fred's laugh is powerful enough to break through to the "lonely darkness over an unknown abyss" where Scrooge wanders
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Fred's laugh is powerful enough to break through to the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss where Scrooge wanders
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Fred's "laugh" is powerful enough to break through to the "lonely darkness over an unknown abyss" where Scrooge wanders
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Fred's "laugh" is powerful enough to break through to the "lonely darkness" over "an unknown abyss" where Scrooge wanders
Q.10.
"I wouldn't show weak eyes to your father when he comes home, for the world."
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Mrs Cratchit expresses her desire to protect her husband from further grief by adding an emphatic "for the world" to her explanation
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Mrs Cratchit knows that Bob would feel further grief if he were to become aware of her failing eyesight
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Mrs Cratchit knows her husband would feel further grief if she were to let him become aware of her "weak eyes"
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All of the above
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