Question
Excerpt from A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree.
Question at position 1
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Multiple Choice
1 point
Question at position 1
Read the phrase from the excerpt. he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone What does the author mean?
A Scrooge did not like to spend money.
B Scrooge kept his hands on everything.
C Scrooge was a rough person.
D Scrooge has hands like rock.
Question at position 2
2
Multiple Choice
1 point
Question at position 2
Read the phrase from the excerpt. solitary as an oyster The simile in this phrase -
A suggests Scrooge is mean
B gives Scrooge a soft appearance
C has a strong impact on character
D shows Scrooge is always alone
Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree.
Question at position 1
1
Multiple Choice
1 point
Question at position 1
Read the phrase from the excerpt. he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone What does the author mean?
A Scrooge did not like to spend money.
B Scrooge kept his hands on everything.
C Scrooge was a rough person.
D Scrooge has hands like rock.
Question at position 2
2
Multiple Choice
1 point
Question at position 2
Read the phrase from the excerpt. solitary as an oyster The simile in this phrase -
A suggests Scrooge is mean
B gives Scrooge a soft appearance
C has a strong impact on character
D shows Scrooge is always alone
Answers
GPT-4o mini
For question 1, the correct answer is:
**A Scrooge did not like to spend money.**
This phrase indicates that Scrooge was very frugal and unwilling to part with his money.
For question 2, the correct answer is:
**D shows Scrooge is always alone.**
The comparison to an oyster emphasizes Scrooge's isolation and solitary nature.
**A Scrooge did not like to spend money.**
This phrase indicates that Scrooge was very frugal and unwilling to part with his money.
For question 2, the correct answer is:
**D shows Scrooge is always alone.**
The comparison to an oyster emphasizes Scrooge's isolation and solitary nature.