From: riggle@adobe.com (Kathleen Riggle)
Subject: DECEMBER KIDS' BOOK QUIZ-ANSWERS
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:47:31 GMT

Here are the answers; scores and a new quiz to follow.


*************************** DECEMBER KIDS' BOOK QUIZ ***********************

1.  Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small,
    Was singing! Without any presents at all!
    He HADN'T stopped Christmas from coming!
    IT CAME!
    Somehow or other, it came just the same!
    
    --from _How the Grinch Stole Christmas_,
      by Dr. Seuss


2.  Madam Pestilence expected her students at the Academy for Young
    Goblins and Witches to scowl at all times.  It was one of the many
    rules that GLoria had trouble remembering.

    Every time Madame Pestilence spotted Gloria passing her office,
    she would holler, "STOP SMILLING!"

    --from _The Christmas Witch_,
    by Steven Kellogg


3.  Many persons, looking first at [her], would have said that she was
    a country doll, made by Miss Keturah who kept the notions store in
    Hillsborough, and given to Ann.  But not you or I.  The tilt of her
    sharp little nose, her pursed mouth and her keen eyes were not those
    of a doll.  You and I would have known [her] as the real person that
    she was.

    --from _Miss Hickory_, Chapter One, "Crow Makes a Call,"
    by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey


4.  As dry leaaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
    When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,
    so up to the housetop the coursers they flew
    With a sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas, too.

    -- from _The Night Before Christmas_,
    by Clement C. Moore


5.  After that, Ned had no choice but to start making his own joy.
    To his surprise, he found it wasn't so hard.
    Once he even picked his HURRY-UP-I-WARN-YOU mother a bunch of
    flowers so he could enjoy watching her trying not to smile.

    --from _Ned and the Joybaloo_,
    by Hiawym Oram


6.  My arms were full on Market Street,
    I could not carry more.
    As darkness fell on Market Street,
    My feet were tired and sore.
    But I was glad on Market Street,
    These coins I brought to spend,
    I spent them all on Market Street...
    on presents for a friend.

    --from  On Market Street,
    by Arnold Lobel
   [the "friend" is a cat!]
	 

7.  But for us children "gimel" meant winning, "nun" meant losing,
    "he" half winning, and "shim" another chance for the players.
    Moishe and I took the game seriously, but Joshua nad Hindel palyed
    only to keep us company.
    
    --from "A Hanukkah Evening in My Parents' House," in _The Power of
    Light_,
    by Isaac Bashevis Singer


8.  The very next day Ralph ruined Sarah's party.  He had taken a bite
    of of every one of her cookies.  "Sometimes you are very hard to
    love, Ralph," said Sarah.

    --from _Rotten Ralph_, 
    by Jack Gantos


9.  It was a few days before Hanukkah in the town of Drahitchen.  In
    the old days menorahs would have been taken out and polished for
    the holiday lights.  Children would have been sent for the last
    onions or eggs for potato pancakes.  But it wasn't the old days.

    --from _All the Lights in the Night_,
      by Arthur A. Levine


10. Late that night I did hear sounds, though not of ringing bells.
    From outside came the sounds of hissing steam and squeaking metal.
    I looked through my window and saw a train standing perfectly
    still in front of my house.

    --from _The Polar Express_,
      by Chris Van Allsburg