What word completes the quotation?"'He's a comical old fellow,' said Scrooge's nephew, 'that's the truth: and not so pleasant as he might be. However, his offences carry their own __________'"

What word completes the quotation?"Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual __________ tavern."

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

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.10Select the correct answer.How does the author develop the character in this excerpt? A. through the use of descriptive detail B. through the character’s actions C. through the use of dialogue D. through the character’s thoughts

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.