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

1. What was the purpose of the ringing bell? He bell warned scrooge that another ghost was coming even if it was only seconds before it came. 2. Why did Marley visit Scrooge? What does this visit tell us about Marley? Marley visited Scrooge to tell him what was going to happen and that 3 ghosts, past, present, and future, were going to visit him. This tells us that Marley wasn’t treated well at all from Scrooge, because it would have to take a lot for him to haunt Scrooge.

3. What does Marley’s chain represent? How is the chain made? The chain symbolizes all the bad things that Marley did in his life, and now he has to carry it around with him to remind him of the things he has done. Jacob Marley’s neck chains were made of cashboxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, and other objects important to him in life. 4. What frightens Scrooge the most in this section? What frightened Scrooge the most was that he might have a very long heavy chain in the afterlife like Marley. 5. Explain Marley’s fate. What does Marley explain to Scrooge about his never-ending journey? He explained that, because he didn’t do well in life he was forced to travel far and wide in death, and witness what his life might have been like on earth if he was nicer and happier. 6. What does Scrooge learn from Marley? Marley explained that his chains were large and heavy because of the selfish way that he lived his life and that Scrooge’s chains might be longer and heavier later.

**<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A Christmas Carol ** **<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%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">|Using complete sentences, carefully describe the appearance of the first Spirit

The ghost was transparent with a tint of white and has a dreadful look on its face. He had a dull green jacket on that looked like it had been cut with a sharp steak nife. his pants were nothing but jeans that looked like he had been working all day in hen due to their mud stains, and his black nonshiney shoues has lost a shoelace. His veins pooped out like they were juming up and down, with his fingernails looking like they have been throught a shreader and then someone painted the root of then with a brown fat sharpie.