Christmas abounds in literature, whether it’s the multitude of books available to explain the holiday and its traditions or whether it’s simply a part of an author’s plot line. As Johnny Mathis says, it is the most wonderful time of the year. Here’s a short quiz to test your Christmas story knowledge.
1. In E.T. A. Hoffman’s story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, how many heads does the Mouse King have?
2. As this book starts, four sisters commiserate over the fact that they won’t receive Christmas presents this year, and then discuss what they would like if they had the money.
3. In this magical world, it is always winter, never Christmas, until four unsuspecting siblings arrive to save the day.
4. What is one of the reasons the author gives for the Grinch’s dislike of Christmas in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
5. Where does the Ghost of Christmas Present take Scrooge in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol?
6. Screenwriter Valentine Davies wrote a short novella published to coincide with this movie, in which Kris Kringle works his magic on a young, disbelieving mother, her young daughter and the entire city of New York when he’s put on trial.
7. In this author’s short story, “A Christmas Memory,” a young boy named Buddy shares a country Christmas with his elderly cousin, a day which is capped off with the two flying homemade kites and eating Christmas oranges.
Don’t forget to leave your answers in the comments!
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My answers are as follows to your little quiz:
1. This is the only one I didn't know off the top of my head and I wanna say 6 for some reason.
2. Little Women
3. Narnia
4. His shoes were too tight
5. To his nephew's Christmas party that he refused to go to (right before he showed his the corpse-y children he keeps under his cloak)
6. Miracle on 34th St.
7. Truman Capote