Christmas Book Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which bestselling author wrote Skipping Christmas, about a couple planning to avoid their usual holiday celebrations?
John Grisham
Nicholas Sparks
David Baldacci
James Patterson
2. Which novel opens with the four March sisters facing Christmas without presents because their family has little money?
Anne of Green Gables
What Katy Did
Little Women
The Railway Children
3. Sherlock Holmes traces a stolen jewel found inside a Christmas goose. Which story is he investigating?
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
4. A collection presents illustrated letters supposedly sent by Father Christmas to an author's children over many years. Who wrote these letters?
C.S. Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkien
Kenneth Grahame
A.A. Milne
5. Who wrote and illustrated How the Grinch Stole Christmas!?
Dr. Seuss
Maurice Sendak
Shel Silverstein
Richard Scarry
6. A skeptical boy boards a mysterious train bound for the North Pole on Christmas Eve. Which book matches this plot?
The Polar Express
The Snowman
Santa Calls
The Christmasaurus
7. Hercule Poirot is called into a tense family gathering after a wealthy patriarch is murdered during the holidays. Which novel is this?
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Murder on the Orient Express
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
The Hollow
8. Who wrote the original story commonly translated as The Nutcracker and the Mouse King?
Hans Christian Andersen
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Hauff
9. What does the Grinch do after realizing that Christmas means more than the things he stole?
He returns the stolen items and joins the Whos' celebration
He asks Max to return the gifts without him
He leaves Whoville and keeps the stolen feast
He replaces the gifts but refuses to attend the feast
10. Della sells her hair to buy Jim a watch chain, while Jim sells his watch to buy Della combs. Which story contains these sacrifices?
Christmas Every Day
A Kidnapped Santa Claus
The Burglar's Christmas
The Gift of the Magi
11. A sick tailor cannot finish a mayor's Christmas wedding waistcoat, but helpful mice complete the work. Which book tells this story?
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
The Tailor of Panama
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Elves and the Shoemaker
12. A miser is visited by spirits who reveal scenes from his past, present, and possible future. Which book is this?
The Chimes
A Christmas Carol
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Haunted Man
13. Who wrote A Child's Christmas in Wales, a lyrical recollection of childhood holidays?
Seamus Heaney
T.S. Eliot
W.H. Auden
Dylan Thomas
14. Who wrote the novella A Christmas Carol?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
Wilkie Collins
15. Which writer created the Christmas short story The Gift of the Magi?
Washington Irving
Mark Twain
O. Henry
Edith Wharton
16. Who wrote and illustrated The Polar Express?
Raymond Briggs
Tomie dePaola
Ezra Jack Keats
Chris Van Allsburg