A Christmas Carol is an 1843 novella by Charles Dickens. In the novella, Dickens depicts Ebenezer Scrooge as an old, unfeeling miser: -------Which quotation describing Scrooge from A Christmas Carol most effectively illustrates the claim?“External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.”eliminate"He went to church... and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure."eliminate“Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”eliminate"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."

Scrooge is constantly described as being miserly and mean towards others. Which of these events best demonstrates this?He won't allow Bob Cratchit to use coal for the fire.He only allows himself a small saucepan of gruel.He does not buy Christmas presents for his family.

Which of these quotations best demonstrates Scrooge's cynical nature?"What's Christmastime to you but a time for paying bills without money?""covetous old sinner""He carried his own temperature always about with him"

Find a direct quotation that illustrates where the ghost wants to take Scrooge and what hewants  him to see

The following text is adapted from Charles Dickens’ 1861 novel Great Expectations. The speaker and Joe are in a cottage on a cold night. Joe made the fire and swept the hearth, and then we went to the door to listen for the chaise-cart. It was a dry cold night, and the wind blew keenly, and the frost was white and hard. A man would die to-night of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole? It illustrates a character’s prediction of the future.eliminateIt reveals a character’s lack of empathy. eliminate It continues the previous sentence’s detailed description of the setting. eliminate It establishes a scenario a character is imagining.

What does the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come cause Scrooge to fear for the first time?losing all of his moneyhaving his possessions stolenhis own death