Children's Classics & Tales

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1.Which children's classic follows Mary Lennox reviving a locked garden?
- A. The Swiss Family Robinson
- B. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- C. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- D. The Secret Garden
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The Secret Garden
Did you know? The Secret Garden was published in 1911.
2.Which fairy tale centers on a princess woken by a kiss?
- A. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- B. Aladdin
- C. Sleeping Beauty
- D. The Emperor's New Clothes
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Sleeping Beauty
Did you know? The curse in Sleeping Beauty is cast by a slighted fairy.
3.Which legend passes on morals through talking animals?
- A. the Popol Vuh
- B. Aesop's Fables
- C. One Thousand and One Nights
- D. Beowulf
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Aesop's Fables
Did you know? The Tortoise and the Hare is Aesop's most famous fable.
4.Which squire rides beside the knight of La Mancha?
- A. Robin Goodfellow
- B. Sancho Panza
- C. Squire Trelawney
- D. Wamba
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Sancho Panza
Did you know? Sancho Panza trades his village life for Quixote's adventures.
5.Which children's classic follows a girl living with her grandfather in the Alps?
- A. The Railway Children
- B. Little Women
- C. A Little Princess
- D. Heidi
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Heidi
Did you know? Swiss author Johanna Spyri published Heidi in 1881.
6.Which fairy tale follows siblings outwitting a witch in a gingerbread house?
- A. Hansel and Gretel
- B. The Emperor's New Clothes
- C. Rumpelstiltskin
- D. Little Red Riding Hood
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Hansel and Gretel
Did you know? Hansel and Gretel leave a trail of breadcrumbs in the forest.
7.Which legend preserves Norse myths in verse?
- A. the Nibelungenlied
- B. the Kalevala
- C. the Poetic Edda
- D. One Thousand and One Nights
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the Poetic Edda
Did you know? The Poetic Edda is the chief source for Odin and Thor stories.
8.Which character is forced to wear a scarlet letter "A"?
- A. Emma Bovary
- B. Anna Karenina
- C. Hester Prynne
- D. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Hester Prynne
Did you know? Hawthorne's Hester Prynne is punished for adultery in Puritan Boston.
9.Which children's classic follows golden-ticket winners through Wonka's factory?
- A. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- B. The Swiss Family Robinson
- C. Stuart Little
- D. Little Women
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Did you know? Roald Dahl published Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1964.
10.Which fairy tale turns on the magic words "Open, Sesame!"?
- A. The Snow Queen
- B. Little Red Riding Hood
- C. Beauty and the Beast
- D. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Did you know? Ali Baba overhears the thieves' password in the forest.
11.Which legend frames stories told to postpone an execution?
- A. One Thousand and One Nights
- B. Aesop's Fables
- C. the Popol Vuh
- D. the Kalevala
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One Thousand and One Nights
Did you know? Scheherazade tells the tales night after night.
12.Which d'Urberville cousin is ruined by two men's conduct?
- A. Sue Bridehead
- B. Angel Clare
- C. Liza Lu
- D. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Did you know? Hardy's Tess is ruined by Alec and later abandoned by Angel.
13.Which children's classic follows the March sisters during the Civil War era?
- A. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- B. Little Women
- C. Anne of Green Gables
- D. The Wind in the Willows
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Little Women
Did you know? Little Women begins at Christmas with the sisters receiving books.
14.Which fairy tale features a wolf impersonating a grandmother?
- A. Hansel and Gretel
- B. Little Red Riding Hood
- C. The Emperor's New Clothes
- D. Beauty and the Beast
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Little Red Riding Hood
Did you know? Little Red Riding Hood's basket carries food for the sick grandmother.
15.Which children's classic features a book-loving girl with telekinesis?
- A. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- B. The Wind in the Willows
- C. Matilda
- D. Anne of Green Gables
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Matilda
Did you know? Matilda's headmistress is the dreaded Miss Trunchbull.
16.Which fairy tale centers on a magic lamp inside a cave?
- A. Rumpelstiltskin
- B. Little Red Riding Hood
- C. The Emperor's New Clothes
- D. Aladdin
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Aladdin
Did you know? Aladdin's tale belongs to the Arabian Nights cycle.
17.Which children's classic follows a shipwrecked family building a new life?
- A. The Swiss Family Robinson
- B. Little Women
- C. The Railway Children
- D. The Secret Garden
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Did you know? Johann Wyss's novel was first published in German in 1812.
18.Which fairy tale centers on a girl and a cursed prince?
- A. The Snow Queen
- B. Little Red Riding Hood
- C. Hansel and Gretel
- D. Beauty and the Beast
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Beauty and the Beast
Did you know? Beauty's love breaks the Beast's enchantment.
19.Which children's classic follows an orphan girl adopted on Prince Edward Island?
- A. Heidi
- B. Anne of Green Gables
- C. Black Beauty
- D. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Anne of Green Gables
Did you know? Anne of Green Gables (1908) spawned a whole series.
20.Which fairy tale shows courtiers praising invisible cloth?
- A. The Emperor's New Clothes
- B. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- C. Thumbelina
- D. Rumpelstiltskin
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Did you know? A child's cry exposes the emperor's nakedness in Andersen's tale.
21.Which fairy tale features a cat tricking an ogre into becoming a mouse?
- A. The Snow Queen
- B. Little Red Riding Hood
- C. Beauty and the Beast
- D. Puss in Boots
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Puss in Boots
Did you know? Puss in Boots secures his master's fortune by cunning.
22.Which children's classic is narrated by a horse recounting his life?
- A. Heidi
- B. Black Beauty
- C. The Railway Children
- D. Little Women
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Black Beauty
Did you know? Anna Sewell wrote Black Beauty to promote kindness to horses.
23.Which fairy tale retells seven legendary sea voyages?
- A. The Snow Queen
- B. Rumpelstiltskin
- C. Sleeping Beauty
- D. Sinbad the Sailor
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Sinbad the Sailor
Did you know? Sinbad's voyages appear in the Arabian Nights.
24.Which legend preserves the Anglo-Saxon heroic epic?
- A. Beowulf
- B. the Poetic Edda
- C. the Kalevala
- D. Aesop's Fables
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Beowulf
Did you know? Beowulf's three monster fights structure the Old English epic.
25.Which tragic mother leaves her daughter Cosette behind?
- A. Cosette
- B. Fantine
- C. Eponine
- D. Madame Thénardier
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Fantine
Did you know? Fantine sells everything she owns for her daughter in Les Misérables.
26.Which children's classic features the strongest girl in the world?
- A. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- B. Anne of Green Gables
- C. Pippi Longstocking
- D. The Wind in the Willows
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Pippi Longstocking
Did you know? Astrid Lindgren invented Pippi for her sick daughter in 1944.
27.Which fairy tale turns on guessing a dwarf's secret name?
- A. Aladdin
- B. Rumpelstiltskin
- C. Hansel and Gretel
- D. The Emperor's New Clothes
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Rumpelstiltskin
Did you know? The queen wins her child's safety by naming Rumpelstiltskin.
28.Which bombardier keeps arguing that the enemy is trying to kill him?
- A. Milo Minderbinder
- B. Yossarian
- C. Major Major
- D. Nately
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Yossarian
Did you know? Yossarian is the besieged hero of Heller's Catch-22.
29.Which children's classic follows a rabbit raiding Mr. McGregor's garden?
- A. The Velveteen Rabbit
- B. Stuart Little
- C. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- D. Heidi
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Did you know? Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit began as a picture letter in 1893.
30.Which fairy tale follows a girl no bigger than a thumb?
- A. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- B. Thumbelina
- C. The Emperor's New Clothes
- D. Hansel and Gretel
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Thumbelina
Did you know? Andersen's Thumbelina rides off on a swallow.
31.Which social-climbing heroine sharpens her stiletto at Waterloo?
- A. Becky Sharp
- B. Scarlett O'Hara
- C. Emma Bovary
- D. Dorothea Brooke
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Becky Sharp
Did you know? Becky Sharp climbs Regency society in Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
32.Which children's classic features a mouse born into a human family?
- A. Stuart Little
- B. The Wind in the Willows
- C. Heidi
- D. Matilda
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Stuart Little
Did you know? E. B. White wrote Stuart Little (1945) before Charlotte's Web.
33.Which fairy tale centers on a boy with a glass shard in his eye?
- A. Hansel and Gretel
- B. Puss in Boots
- C. The Snow Queen
- D. Sinbad the Sailor
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The Snow Queen
Did you know? Gerda's long search rescues Kai in The Snow Queen.
34.Which heroine is the countess who falls for Prince Andrei and Anatole?
- A. Cosette
- B. Sonya Marmeladova
- C. Anna Karenina
- D. Natasha Rostova
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Natasha Rostova
Did you know? Natasha Rostova is the young countess at the heart of War and Peace.
35.Which children's classic follows Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad of Toad Hall?
- A. The Velveteen Rabbit
- B. The Wind in the Willows
- C. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- D. The Secret Garden
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The Wind in the Willows
Did you know? Kenneth Grahame based Toad's rambles on boat trips with his son.
36.Which children's classic follows Sara Crewe at a London boarding school?
- A. The Secret Garden
- B. Matilda
- C. Anne of Green Gables
- D. A Little Princess
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A Little Princess
Did you know? Frances Hodgson Burnett expanded A Little Princess from a serial.
37.Which legend is the Mayan book of creation?
- A. the Kalevala
- B. One Thousand and One Nights
- C. the Poetic Edda
- D. the Popol Vuh
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the Popol Vuh
Did you know? The Popol Vuh recounts the making of humans from maize.
38.Which children's classic tells of a toy rabbit becoming real?
- A. Heidi
- B. The Railway Children
- C. The Velveteen Rabbit
- D. The Wind in the Willows
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The Velveteen Rabbit
Did you know? The Velveteen Rabbit was illustrated by William Nicholson in 1922.
39.Which legend is Finland's national epic?
- A. the Kalevala
- B. the Nibelungenlied
- C. the Poetic Edda
- D. the Popol Vuh
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the Kalevala
Did you know? The Kalevala inspired Sibelius's tone poems.
40.Which children's classic follows three children living beside a railway?
- A. Little Women
- B. Matilda
- C. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- D. The Railway Children
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The Railway Children
Did you know? E. Nesbit's The Railway Children was published in 1906.
41.Which legend tells of Siegfried's betrayal in medieval Germany?
- A. The Song of Roland
- B. the Nibelungenlied
- C. the Popol Vuh
- D. Beowulf
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the Nibelungenlied
Did you know? Wagner's Ring cycle drew on the Nibelungenlied.
42.Which legend tells of the Frankish rearguard destroyed at Roncesvalles?
- A. One Thousand and One Nights
- B. Beowulf
- C. The Song of Roland
- D. the Popol Vuh
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The Song of Roland
Did you know? Roland's horn, the olifant, sounds too late in the chanson.

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