1. Look up for the word “scooped” in dictionary relate it’s meaning to the main character in the novel.

There is no reference to "scooping" in the story, although we might think of Scrooge scooping up his money within his hands. The quote below refers to a number of similar actions; squeezing, wrenching, scraping."

"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."