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Christmas Literature is a selection of 10 questions. Christmas Literature is the filename to differentiate it from other Christmas. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 How many ghosts appeared to Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella A Christmas Carol?
A Four, Jacob Marley’s ghost (wearing heavy chains bound to money boxes and ledgers), the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
2 Which Irish novelist wrote the children’s book ‘Rover Saves Christmas’?
A Roddy Doyle.
3 Who wrote the Christmas children’s book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
A Theodor “Dr Seuss” Geisel.
4 Which reindeer isn’t in the poem “The Night Before Christmas”?
A Rudolph, first mentioned in Robert L. May’s 1939 storybook, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
5 Which poem by T. S. Eliot tells the story of the biblical Magi who travelled to Bethlehem to visit the newborn Jesus?
A Journey of the Magi
6 Which children’s picture book by American author Chris Van Allsburg perhaps a classic Christmas story for young children?
A The Polar Express – A boy on Christmas Eve hears the Polar Express outside his house instead of Santa’s sleigh bells.
7 Who wrote the book that became the animated classic “The Snowman”?
A Raymond Briggs, an English author, illustrator, cartoonist, and graphic novelist.
8 The first line of which book is, “Christmas won’t be Christmas, without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug”?
A Little Women – by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, widely considered to be a classic Christmas story for young children.
9 In which story does Sherlock Holmes investigate the theft of a valuable gemstone during the Christmas season in London?
A The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle – first published in The Strand Magazine in January 1892.
10 What was the name of Tiny Tim’s father in “A Christmas Carol”?
A Bob Cratchit. We will never really know what caused Tiny Tim’s disability, but his cramped life in a polluted London would have put him at risk for both rickets and tuberculosis.