Context

Question 1

When was A Christmas Carol wrote?

Answer 1

1843

Question 2

What is the name of the factory Dickens had to work in growing up?

Answer 2

Blacking factory

Question 3

How old was Dickens when he had to work in the Blacking Factory

Answer 3

12

Question 4

How did Dickens’ experience of poverty shape his ideology?

Answer 4

He became very critical of the way Victorian Society treated the poor.

Question 5

What is the message of A Christmas Carol?

Answer 5

Social responsibility

Question 6

Why is the novel set at Christmas?

Answer 6

Dickens believed that Christmas was a time of year where people were more generous.

Question 7

Did Dickens’ believe that you should only be charitable around Christmas time?

Answer 7

No - he believed that people should be generous all year round

Question 8

What were Christmas traditions becoming in the Victorian Era?

Answer 8

More Secular

Secular - moving away from religion

Question 9

What was the name that Dickens used for chapters in ACC?

Answer 9

Staves

Question 10

What is a stave?

Answer 10

A stave is the series of horizontal lines and four spaces.

Question 11

Fill in the gap:
Dickens wrote each chapter in a form of Christian allegory for _________

Answer 11

Dickens wrote each chapter in a form of Christian allegory for redemption

Question 12

What is an allegory?

Answer 12

Story with a moral message

Question 13

What did Dickens’ believe could solve poverty?

Answer 13

Education
Philanthropy (charity)
Better wages

Question 14

What happened in the 19th Century?

Answer 14

The Industrial Revolution

Question 15

What did the Industrial Revolution do for the gap between Rich and Poor?

Answer 15

Increased it massively

Question 16

Name 1philanthropist.

Answer 16

Cadbury Family

Titus Salt

+ anymore that apply to the victorian era.

Question 17

What projects did Dickens support to solve the poor’s lack of education?

Answer 17

Ragged Schools

Question 18

Before the Industrial revolution, Britain was more rural. What does rural mean?

Answer 18

Countryside - large piece of empty lands

Question 19

The Industrial Revolution created more jobs in England. How would have this contributed to the population in cities?

Answer 19

It would have caused overpopulation.

Question 20

Between 1800 - 1900. London increased in size from 1 million to 6 million.
What was the increase?

Answer 20

5 Million

Question 21

Most of the migrants ended up living in the slums. Name some characteristics about the slums.

Answer 21

• cheap, overcrowded housing
• No proper drainage or sewage systems
• hunger and disease (overcrowding)

Question 22

What was the Malthusian Conspiracy?

Answer 22

-Poverty is inevitable and cannot be avoided.

-The belief that human population will always grow faster than food supplies

Question 23

What did Dickens believe about the Malthusian Conspiracy?

Answer 23

He was wrong - there was plenty food to go around, the rich just had to be more generous

Question 24

Which character did Dickens use as a mouthpiece for Malthus, give a quote to support your argument.

Answer 24

Scrooge

“Well they better do it, and decrease the surplus population”

Question 25

When was the poor law created?

Answer 25

1834

Question 26

What did Malthus believe about the previous poor laws?

Answer 26

They were too charitable. Poverty relief caused the poor to be idle, and reduce the incentive to work.

Question 27

What is Lombroso's theory of crime?

Answer 27

The belief that criminals can be distinguished based off physical anomalies (basically their looks)

Question 28

What did the 1834 poor law do?

Answer 28

Reduced the financial help to the poor.

Question 29

As a consequence of the 1834 poor law, what happened to unemployed people?

Answer 29

They were forced to work in a workhouse

Question 30

What were conditions in the workhouses like? What happened to families in the workhouses?

Answer 30

- deliberately unpleasant - families were often split up

Question 31

What was Richard Oastler a tireless champion of?

Answer 31

Ten Hours Factory bill

Question 32

What is another name for the Factory Act of 1847

Answer 32

Ten Hours Act

Question 33

What did the Ten Hours Act do?

Answer 33

Limited working hours of women and young people (13-18) to 10 hours.

Question 34

What did Oastler think of the workhouses?

Answer 34

That they were "Prisons for the poor"

Question 35

What was the main religion in Victorian England?

Answer 35

Christianity

Question 36

In Victorian England, people had a strong moral code. What does this moral code contain?

Answer 36

- Attending Church regularly - Avoiding alcohol - exercising sexual restraint

Question 37

Dickens had a different view of Christianity. He thought people should be humble, ch______, fa_____, fo______, rather than merely appearing religious.

Answer 37

Dickens had a different view of Christianity. He thought people should be humble, charitable, faithful, forgiving, rather than merely appearing religious.

Question 38

What is Anti-Sabbatarianism?

Answer 38

Against the Sabbath

Question 39

Why was Dickens Anti-Sabbatarian?

Answer 39

- The poor people were denied any enjoyment on their one day off - Couldn't get hot meals, bakers were closed

Question 40

One of the moods of Victorian England was supernatural beliefs, what is the key term for "a defining mood of the era"

Answer 40

Zeitgeist

Question 41

What did Christians believe would happen if they repented?

Answer 41

They would be saved from their fate in the afterlife

Question 42

What did Christians believe about the afterlife?

Answer 42

Heaven - Place of eternal reward Hell - Place of eternal punishment

Question 43

Advanced context: What is The Uncommercial Traveller?

Answer 43

Semi-autobiography by Charles Dickens

Question 44

Advanced context. The following is a quote from the Uncommercial Traveller. "They were in a building most ___________ behind the ____"

Answer 44

"They were in a building most monstrously behind the time"

Question 45

Advanced context: Fill in the blanks from the Uncommercial Traveller. "The necessary alteration would cost ________ _________ pounds; it has already to support three workhouses; its inhabitants ____ ____ for their ____ ____"

Answer 45

"The necessary alteration would cost several thousands pounds; it has already to support three workhouses; its inhabitants work hard for their bare lives"

Question 46

Advanced context: Fill in the blanks from the Uncommercial Traveller: "there on the floor, were women in every stage of ________ and _______. One figure a little coiled up and turned away, as though it had turned it's ____ on this _____ for ever"

Answer 46

"there on the floor, were women in every stage of distress and disease. One figure a little coiled up and turned away, as though it had turned it's back on this world forever."