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Choose 4 characters from the play EXCEPT SCROOGE and (4 points):

a. Describe their personality
b. Describe their role in the play and relationship to other characters

1. _____________
Personality:
_________________________________________________________________________

Role:
___________________________________________________________________________

2. _____________

Personality:
_________________________________________________________________________

Role:
___________________________________________________________________________

3. _____________

Personality:
_________________________________________________________________________

Role:
___________________________________________________________________________

4. _____________

Personality:
_________________________________________________________________________

Role:
___________________________________________________________________________
Short Answer (2-3 Sentences for each)

5. How did Scrooge change over the course of the story/play? (2 points)
(Use Textual Evidence to support your answer)

6. What did the Spirits represent to Scrooge? Identify each one and explain how each impacted
him. Which one in your opinion, had the most significant impact on Scrooge and why? (4 points)
(Use Textual Evidence to support your answer)
7. How do stage directions help impact our understanding of the play? What do they provide the
reader? (Use Textual Evidence to support your answer) (3 points)

8. Spirit hear me. I am not the man I was. I am not the man that I have been for so many
years...Let the boy live! I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live
in the Past, the Present, and the Future...I will not shut out the lessons they (spirits) teach.

Who Said It:________________________________

What inference can you make from this quote? (2 points)

Which line from above supports your inference? (Copy down the line and tell why it supports
your inference) (Evidence) (2 points)

a. Inference:

b. Evidence:
9. If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.

Who Said It:________________________________________

What inference can you make from this quote? (2 points)

Which line from above supports your inference? (Copy down the line and tell why it supports
your inference) (Evidence) (2 points)

a. Inference:

b. Evidence:

Vocabulary
Match the word with the correct definition (2.5 points)

A. Surplus B. Solitude C. Provision D. Macabre E. Odious

_______the state or situation of being alone.

_______the action of providing or supplying something for use.
_______extremely unpleasant; repulsive.
_______more than what is needed or used; excess.
_______disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.

Use each word in a sentence: (2 points)

Surplus____________________________________________________________________________

Solitude____________________________________________________________________________

Provision____________________________________________________________________________

Odious____________________________________________________________________________