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"

Why does Scrooge refuse to donate to charity?He believes that people receiving charity do not deserve it.He believes he's done his part by paying his taxes.He believes it's "every man for himself".

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."

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

How does Scrooge feel about nobody ever stopping to speak to him in the street in Stave One?He is sad.He is embarrassed.He doesn't care.