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- From: riggle@adobe.com (Kathleen Riggle)
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- Subject: REPOST:NOVEMBER BOOK QUIZ
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:11:59 GMT
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- Here's a repost; I'll send out the answers at the end of the month.
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-
- Quiz rules : 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 Betsy Perry, Mimi Wellington, Jan
- Wieseneld and Stan and Eli Isaacs and Barbara Vivier.
-
- 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.
-
- Kathie Riggle
- riggle@adobe.com
-
- *************************** NOVEMBER KIDS' BOOK QUIZ ***********************
-
- 1. As a rule, gingerbread men were fun. They leapt up off the plate
- and ran when you tried to eat them, so that when you finally caught
- them you felt quite justified in neating them. It was a fair
- fight, and some got away. But Mrs. Sharp's gingerbread men never
- did that. They simply lay, feebly waving their arms, and Cat
- never had the heart to eat them.
-
-
- 2. "There is no reason to sound surprised," the King said. "The
- Queen is a very proficient mousequestrian. Of course, it is not
- the sort of sport I would choose myself."
-
- What sort of sport would you choose?" Ellie asked, interested.
-
- "Preferably none. I leave that sort of thing to the Queen. I am
- more of a homebody. I prefer keeping the house tidy, caring for
- the children, and supervising their diet."
-
-
- 3. "You'd better mind your manners, little lady. I could turn you
- into a tin of beans."
-
- "My Uncle Jim is downstairs," said Dinah. "He is a hunter. He
- has got a gun."
-
- The wicked witch sniffed and pretended not to care. Even so,
- Dinah could see a worried look in her eyes. The truth is, Dinah's
- Uncle Jim was a bus driver, but the witch was not to know that.
-
-
- 4. Elizabeth was a beautiful princess. She lived in a castle and had
- expensive princess clothes. She was going to marry a prince named
- Ronald.
-
- Unfortunately, a dragon smashed her castle, burned all her clothes
- with his fiery breath, and carried off Prince Ronald.
-
-
- 5. Then one day, James's mother and father went to London to do some
- shopping, and there a terrible thing happened. Both of them
- suddenly got eaten up (in full daylight, mind you, and on a crowed
- street) by an enormous angry rhinoceros which had escaped from the
- London Zoo.
-
- Now this, as you can well imagine, was a rather nasty experience
- for two such gentle parents. But in the long run it was far
- nastier for James than it was for them. Their troubles were all
- over in a jiffy. They were dead and gone in thirty-five seconds
- flat. Poor James, on the other hand, was still very much alive,
- and all at once he found himself alone and frightened in a vast
- unfriendly world. The lovely house by the seaside had to be sold
- immediately, and the little boy, carrying nothing but a small
- suitcase containing a pair of pajamas and a toothbursh, was sent
- away to live with his two aunts.
-
-
- 6. I see a redbird looking at me.
-
-
- 7. "Put down your doll." said Miss Minchin. "What do you mean by
- bringing her here?" "No," Sara answered. "I will not put her
- down. She is all I have. My papa gave her to me." She had
- always made Miss Minchin feel secretly uncomfortable, and she did
- so now. She did not speak with rudeness so much as with a cold
- steadiness with which Miss Minchin felt if difficult to
- cope-perhaps because she knew she was doing a heartless and
- inhuman thing.
-
-
- 8. She got very jealous. She frowned. And she pouted. Then, one
- day she got awfully mad and she shouted: "This just isn't fair! I
- have *one*! She has *two*! I MUST have a tail just like
- Lolla-Lee-Lou!"
-
-
- 9. On his birthday, he got a present from Grandma.
- It was a woolen sweater with roses on it.
- Harry didn't like it the moment he saw it.
- He didn't like the roses.
-
-
- 10. He'll want to go with you. When he opens the door and feels how
- chilly it is, he'll ask to borrow a sweater. When he puts thw
- sweater on, he'll notice on of the buttons is loose. He'll ask
- for a needle and thread.
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