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Chapter 2

**Study Group Questions: ** **Chapter 2—Marley’s Visit ** Discuss the following questions together with your group. Be prepared to share your answers with the whole class.

1. What was the purpose of the ringing bell? **To tell you what time it was. ** 2. Why did Marley visit Scrooge? What does this visit tell us about Marley? **To help Scrooge fix his life, and not suffer a cruel afterlife. This tells me that Marley has changed and become a caring person. ** 3. What does Marley’s chain represent? How is the chain made? **Marley’s chain represents all of the things involving money that Marley cared about most and shouldn’t have. It represents human greed. The chain is made with money boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, and other things that shouldn’t have been so important. ** 4. What frightens Scrooge the most in this section? **What his life would be like after death. ** 5. Explain Marley’s fate. What does Marley explain to Scrooge about his never-ending journey? **Marley’s fate is done with, he has no fate, or chance. He will now spend the rest of his time on and endless journey because of money. He says he will have a never ending journey because he never went anywhere but the counting house, he was always with money, so now his consequence is having a never ending journey. ** 6. What does Scrooge learn from Marley? He learns that money isn’t everything, and if he keeps up his miserable life will end up like he old partner in business, Jacob Marley.  ** <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Chapter 3 Questions **

** <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Choose one of the following questions to answer. Make sure you use details from the story to support your answer. ** <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1. Using complete sentences, carefully describe the appearance of the first Spirit. <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The first spirit had the shape of a child, but the features of an old man. The spirit has silver hair, but not a wrinkle on his face. There was a strange light that flickered atop his head, it looked like a candle. He held a gold cap under his arm, it looked like it was supposed to put out candles.