From: mimi@apollo.hp.com (Mimi Wellington)
Subject: SEPTEMBER KIDS' BOOK QUIZ -- REPOST
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:18:27 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA
           

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I suspect this is a tough quiz, although I tried to throw in
one or two "gift" quotes.  Quotes 9 and 10 are here to warm
you up for next month's "spooky" quiz.

Quiz rules again:  you get a point for the author, a point for
the book/story/poem, and an extra point for more specific
identifications in such cases as chapter books and collections
of stories or poems.  I try to take quotes from fairly well-
known books, but I'm guilty of throwing in really great quotes
from little-known books.  Most, but not all, of the quotes come 
from authors I've not included in previous quizzes.

Please feel free to look up the quotes, ask friends, form teams,
whatever.  The basic rule is to enjoy yourself.

This month's quiz contributors are Kate Dudding, Kathie Riggle, 
Marshall Gilliland, Steve and Danielle Monson, and
Jan Wiesenfeld.  Many thanks to all of them!  Remember:  
quiz contributors get credit for accurate answers to their
own contributions.  So don't be shy!  Send me quotes!

EMAIL your answers to me and I'll tell you your score.  I'll
post answers at the end of the month.  I'll repost the quiz
mid-month, in case you miss it first time 'round.

Have fun!
                                             --Mimi Wellington
                                               mimi@apollo.hp.com         

*************************** SEPTEMBER KIDS' BOOK QUIZ *************************

1.  One evening, after thinking it over for some time, Harold decided to 
    go for a walk in the moonlight.  There wasn't any moon, and Harold
    needed a moon for a walk in the moonlight.
    
    
2.  It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is
    eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity.  The motto of all the mongoose
    family is, "Run and find out"...
    
    
3.  Moving in darkness.
    Moving in daylight.
    Going, going...
    gone.
    
    
4.  He picked up a paper napkin from the table and folded it into
    the shape of a crane.  "You have only to clap your hands," he
    said, "and this bird will come to life and dance for you.  Take it 
    and enjoy it while it is with you."  With these words the stranger
    left.             
    
    
5.  One day [she] was picking up corn in the rickyard when--whack!--an acorn
    hit her upon the head.  "Goodness gracious me!" [she said].  "The sky's
    a-going to fall; I must go and tell the king."
    
    
6.  Anastasia had a small pink wart in the middle of her left thumb.  She
    found her wart very pleasing.  It had appeared quite by surprise, shortly
    after her tenth birthday, on a morning when nothing else interesting was
    happening, and it was the first wart she had ever had, or even seen.
    
    "It's the loveliest color I've ever seen in a wart," her mother, who had
    seen others, said with admiration.
    
    
7.  There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill--
    nothing but sand and rocks, some old wooden boxes, 
    cactus and greasewood and thorny ocotillo--
    but it was a special place.
    
    
8.  Sometimes on weekends, they'd be in the elevator when I got on.  I'd
    act as if they weren't there.  I had to get off the elevator before
    they did because I lived on the second floor, and they lived on the
    sixth.  Before I'd get off the elevator, I'd take my fists and, fast
    and furious, I'd push every floor button just the second before I got
    out.
    
    
9.  "We want a Wail," said the Phoenix.  "And we shall accept nothing but the
    best and loudest you have."
    
    "Ah, a Banshee's Wail, is it?" cried the hag. "You've come to the right
    shop, dearies, to be sure.  Now, let me see ..."
    
    Fifteen minutes later the Banshee came out with the box, plugging up the
    hole in its side with a bit of wax. "Wssht!" she gasped, wiping her brow 
    with the sleeve of her Mother Hubbard.  "Ah, dearies, that was the effort
    of me life! 'Tis a Wail to make one burst with pride, though I do say it 
    meself.  Thirteen minutes long by the clock, with a range of ten octaves!
    'Twould frighten Old Nick himself!"
    
    
10. F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech.