How well do you remember Ebenezer Scrooge’s Christmas Eve? This five-question quiz checks people and events from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Choose one answer for each question before opening the answer section. The page does not collect or store your answers.
Spoiler note: The questions cover all five staves. Listen to the free A Christmas Carol audiobook before taking the quiz if you want to discover the story first.
Five questions
1. Which dead business partner visits Scrooge first?
- A. Mr Fezziwig
- B. Jacob Marley
- C. Bob Cratchit
- D. Fred
2. What is the name of Scrooge’s clerk?
- A. Bob Cratchit
- B. Peter Cratchit
- C. Dick Wilkins
- D. Old Joe
3. Who was Scrooge’s cheerful employer when he was young?
- A. Jacob Marley
- B. Mr Fezziwig
- C. the schoolmaster
- D. the portly gentleman
4. Which Cratchit child uses a little crutch?
- A. Martha
- B. Belinda
- C. Tiny Tim
- D. Peter
5. What name does Scrooge see on the neglected gravestone?
- A. Jacob Marley
- B. Ebenezer Scrooge
- C. Tiny Tim
- D. Bob Cratchit
Show answers and explanations
- B. Jacob Marley. Marley was Scrooge’s partner in life. His ghost warns Scrooge about the chain created by a selfish life.
- A. Bob Cratchit. Cratchit works in Scrooge’s counting-house and tries to warm himself with a very small fire.
- B. Mr Fezziwig. The Ghost of Christmas Past shows Scrooge the generous party given by his former employer.
- C. Tiny Tim. Dickens introduces Tim as the young Cratchit child who carries a little crutch and has iron supports for his limbs.
- B. Ebenezer Scrooge. The final spirit shows Scrooge his own name on the stone, forcing him to understand the future he may still change.
Use your result
A perfect score shows that you followed the main characters and visions. If you missed a question, return to the relevant stave and listen for the surrounding detail. Then ask a deeper question: which memory or warning changes Scrooge most, and what action proves the change?
Text and editorial source
Questions and explanations are original BookAud editorial content, checked against Charles Dickens’s text, Project Gutenberg eBook 46, Staves One through Five. This quiz is not a separate recording or adaptation of the novella.