WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST AND 50 POINTS! 1. What is a "stave," and what is the significance of the novel being sectioned into four different staves?
2. Why does the narrator make such a point of Marley’s being dead?
3. Why doesn’t the weather affect Scrooge?
4. How is Scrooge’s nephew different from Scrooge?
5. What do the “portly gentlemen” who come in after Scrooge’s nephew leave want?
6. How does the knocker change?
7. Why does Scrooge like the darkness? (just after the incident with the knocker)
8. What has Marley’s ghost been doing since his death?
9. What is the warning that Marley gives Scrooge?
10. Why are the phantoms (three paragraphs from the end of the stave) upset?
11. What was the strangest thing about the way the spirit looked? (sentence beginning “but the
strangest thing…)
12. What is Scrooge’s initial attitude toward the spirit?
13. What is different about Scrooge when he says “Remember it? I could walk it with a blindfold?”
14. Who is Scrooge talking about when he says “Poor boy!”
15. What does it tell us about Scrooge when Dickens observes “a rapidity of transition very
foreign to his usual character.”?
16. When Fan comes to pick Scrooge up, we learn a reason why Scrooge may have turned out
the way he did. What is this reason?
17. What kind of people are the Fezziwigs?
18. Who is Belle and why was she important to Scrooge?
19. Why does Scrooge say “Remove me.” (five paragraphs from the end of the stave)
20. How does Scrooge try to "extinguish the light"? Does he succeed? What is the light a
symbol of?