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    • What are the top three context points for Christmas Carol?
      1. 1834 Poor Law punishes the poor
      2. Deep class divisions in Victorian society
      3. Dickens' personal experience with poverty
    • What did the 1834 Poor Law require from the poor?
      Work for free in a workhouse
    • How does Dickens criticize the 1834 Poor Law in Christmas Carol?
      Through Scrooge's rhetorical questions
    • What does Dickens highlight about the Victorian upper class?
      They were unaware of the poor's struggles
    • What personal experience influenced Dickens' writing about children?
      His father went to debtors prison
    • What are the top five themes in Christmas Carol?
      1. Charity
      2. Redemption
      3. Christmas
      4. Family
      5. Class and social injustice
    • What is the main message about charity in Christmas Carol?
      Rich people should help the poor
    • How does Scrooge's character relate to the theme of redemption?
      He changes his ways and seeks forgiveness
    • What does Dickens want to remind his audience about Christmas?
      It symbolizes God's sacrifice for humanity
    • How does Scrooge's neglect of family contribute to his misery?
      It isolates him from happiness and love
    • What does Dickens illustrate about class and social injustice?
      Rich people contribute to class divisions
    • What are the top 10 quotations to remember from Christmas Carol?
      1. Scrooge is described as "solitary as an oyster"
      2. Scrooge's rhetorical question about prisons
      3. Cratchit family's small pudding on Christmas
      4. Tiny Tim's "God bless us, everyone"
      5. Jacob Marley's chain metaphor
      6. Ghost of Christmas Past's child-old man description
      7. Belle's "another idol has displaced me"
      8. Ignorance and Want presented by the Ghost
      9. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come's dark clothing
      10. Fred's "Merry Christmas, uncle"
    • What does the description of Scrooge as "solitary as an oyster" imply?
      He is isolated and alienated from society
    • What does Scrooge's rhetorical question about prisons reveal?
      His support for the 1834 Poor Law
    • What does the oxymoron "small pudding for a large family" illustrate?
      Poverty contrasted with family happiness
    • What does Tiny Tim's phrase "God bless us, everyone" signify?
      His thankfulness despite challenges
    • What does Jacob Marley's chain symbolize?
      The consequences of a greedy life
    • How is the Ghost of Christmas Past described?
      As looking like a child and an old man
    • What does Belle's statement about "another idol" represent?
      Scrooge's love for money over love
    • What do the children Ignorance and Want represent?
      The consequences of societal neglect
    • What does the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come foreshadow?
      Scrooge's death and consequences
    • What does Fred's greeting to Scrooge illustrate?
      The importance of family and forgiveness
    • What is the final quotation Scrooge reflects on?
      Living in the past, present, and future
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