A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - Answer Key

This answer key is for use with our Literary Classics Workbook Series on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, available exclusively here.

1. Marley




2. His nephew




3. "If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."




4. Marley's




5. A locomotive hearse




6. Jacob




7. Because this was not done during life




8. Answers will vary




9. Fan




10. Old Fezziwig




11. Scrooge's former fiancee




12. Answers will vary




13. He wears a simple green robe, bordered with white fur, a holly wreath on his head, and nothing more




14. Martha




15. Tiny Tim




16. Scrooge




17. Ignorance




18. It wears a deep black garment, from which only its hand is visible




19. Charwoman, laundress, and undertaker




20. Tiny Tim




21. Ebenezer Scrooge




22. B - heart




23. The Cratchits




24. Fred




25. B - False




26. Answers will vary

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - Answer Key

This answer key is designed for use with our Literary Classics Workbook Series title Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, available exclusively on CurrClick.

1. He is the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of d'Urberville



2. D - Wessex



3. Marlott



4. White



5. Angel, Cuthbert, and Felix



6. Tess



7. Rolliver's



8. A - Abraham



9. Kingsbere



10. Tess and Abraham



11. The horse is killed in a collision with a mail cart



12. The Slopes



13. Answers will vary



14. Alec



15. B - False



16. She allows her hat to blow off, so that she must retrieve it



17. A - True



18. Chaseborough



19. Alec's



20. B - False



21. Alec



22. Her mother, Joan Durbeyfield



23. B - False



24. Mechanical reaper or reaping machine



25. Sorrow



26. D - milkmaid



27. Valley of the Great Dairies



28. Richard Crick



29. Angel Clare



30. Intellectual liberty



31. Tess



32. C - Harp



33. Peter the Great



34. D - Morning



35. B - Liza-Lu



36. Tess feels unworthy of his affections



37. B - Marian, Izz, Retty, Tess



38. Angel runs over to Tess, hugs her, and confesses that he loves her



39. B - Mercy Chant



40. B - False



41. Rev. Clare preached directly to Alec from the pulpit, which led Alec to publicly insult Rev. Clare



42. A - True



43. Sunday



44. Angel



45. A - True



46. B - False



47. Answers will vary



48. December 31 (New Year's Eve)



49. The man recognized Tess from Trantridge, and insulted her



50. An afternoon crow



51. Jewelry



52. Retty Priddle



53. Angel



54. Answers will vary



55. They will separate, with Tess returning to her parents' home



56. Believing Tess dead, he places her in a coffin



57. Answers will vary



58. B - False



59. B - 50



60. B - Brazil



61. Izz Huett



62. She pities them and wants to end their misery



63. Marian



64. B - False



65. B - False



66. A - True



67. A - Cross-in-Hand



68. Marriage license



69. Alec d'Urberville



70. Answers will vary



71. Their mother is dying and their father is ill



72. B - Alec



73. Tess's father, John Durbeyfield



74. Rural-to-urban migration, or "the tendency of the rural population towards the large towns"



75. Kingsbere



76. Izz and Marian



77. Tess's mother, Joan Durbeyfield



78. Sandbourne



79. The Herons



80. Mrs. Brooks



81. Blood



82. Alec d'Urberville



83. Cuthbert Clare



84. A - True



85. Bramshurst Court



86. Stonehenge



87. Answers will vary

Essay Questions - Answers will vary

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Free Printable Tally Score Sheet for Euchre and More

This free printable tally score sheet can be used for tournament games of progressive euchre, bridge, and canasta. It can also be used for fun classroom test-prep review games.


How to play as a class:

First, you will need question cards. Try printing some of our cards, or make your own. You might even have the kids each make ten or so question cards from a study sheet.

Have prizes ready and clearly marked. You can do first-, second-, and third-place prizes (with something small for "everyone else"). You can also do prize ranges based on point totals (kind of like the tiered prizes offered at festival games).

• This particular tally sheet works for student players totaling multiples of 12 (12, 24, 36, etc.). With 12 students, you will need 3 tables, followed by 6 tables for 24 students, 9 tables for 36 students, etc. (four student players per table).
• If you have 6 or 9 tables going, randomly divide the class into color-coded teams. Print each team's tally card on colored copy paper.
  
• You will also need a score writer/question reader for each table. This job can be done by "extra" students, teachers, parents, etc. (Note: If the students are playing for prizes, be sure to offer good prizes to students who volunteer for this job.)
• Questions can be answered and scored different ways. (1) The "reader" can read the question, then have students slap the table, raise a hand, or ring a buzzer. The first correct answer gets the point for the question. (2) All students can have 15-20 seconds to write the answer to the question. The "reader" checks the answers and gives a point to each student with a correct answer.
  
• Each tournament lasts eleven rounds. If you instruct the students to do ten questions per round, each round should be done in about five minutes or less. This totals 55 minutes.
• To keep kids moving quickly, try ringing a bell. After 4:30, ring the bell and say, "Thirty seconds left." After 5:00, ring the bell and say, "Move onto round ___." The 5 minutes-per-round time limit will keep students focused because the kids will want a chance to earn all possible points for that round.

Classroom management tip:

In this tournament, students have no choice regarding their partners. Each student on a 12-person team will have a chance to play with every other person on her/his team. This means, particularly if students play as partners at each table, no "two troublemakers" will be partners at the same table more than once. There is simply no time in this game for kids to drift off or become behaviorally inappropriate.

Internet Age Drama: Gadgets, Gizmos, and Gimmicks

Here's a funny and semi-educational story that I'd like to share with you. The moral of the story? Beware the linking that you do on the internet. Keep track of what accounts, phone numbers, log-ins, email addresses, etc., are linked to one another.

I am a bit of a techie nut. While no expert, I'm crazy for gadgets, gizmos, and gimmicks. I own a fancy Droid phone with more apps than I could ever possibly use. I have both a laptop and a PC, and I love investing my hard-earned money on tons of interesting-looking software I see advertised.

Needless to say, I use the Google calendar that comes free with my Google email account. You might be thinking that as an educator working on an educational website, my calendar is full of important meetings, conferences, etc. And these things are definitely in my calendar. But as a tech nut who carries her cell phone with her 24/7, I've also come to rely on my Google calendar for tons of everyday things. I get easily distracted, so if I need to do something in a few hours, darn tootin' that I put it on my calendar.

Putting a batch of jerky in the dehydrator? Mark in my Google calendar the time when it should be ready. Need to pick up toilet tissue after work? There's a Google calendar alert set for 3:00 P.M. to remind me.

The Google calendar has an option that allows you to send SMS (text message alerts) to your phone. And even though I have the Google calendar app installed on my phone, I've always used the text alerts as back-up. To do this, I had to validate the phone number by responding to a text that Google sent me.

The problem? About a year ago, I changed my service provider and got a new cell phone number. The Google calendar text messages never entered my mind. I loaded my new phone with all of my old apps and services, and went about my life. I never thought about the reality that eventually, my old provider would get around to assigning my old phone number to another customer.

Oops!

One day, I saw a new event in my calendar: "Quit sending this **** to my ******* phone!!!" I was dumbfounded. What on earth was this? After a lot of pondering, and further harsh exchanges, I realized that my mundane, incessant calendar events were still being sent to my old phone number. The poor man who was using my old phone number was every day getting reminders to buy feminine hygiene products, take the pot roast out of the oven, etc.

Quickly, I went into my Google calendar settings and erased the old phone number (but not before sending out a sincere apology via the calendar).

Your take-away:

Be very careful about what accounts and log-ins you link to your cell phone number, because if you ever change your number, those old accounts may be accessible to whomever receives your old phone number. When you validate your phone number for texting directly to and from your calendar, blog, twitter, etc., you are giving anyone who "inherits" your phone number access to those accounts.

So think twice before you link anything to your cell phone number!