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Quiz: Poems of early childhood

Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009 in children's books

This quiz covers some of the poems appearing in Childcraft’s Poems of Early Childhood.

What color horse does the fine day from Banbury Cross ride?





If she agrees to be mine, what animal will Curly-locks no longer have to feed?





How many fiddlers did Old King Cole send for?





As we go round the mulberry bush, what do we do with our hands?





What is the finest of suppers according to the boy in the Christopher Morley poem in which he eats a meal in "the coziest place that I know" where "the kettle is singing, the stove is aglow"?





In Dorothy Aldis' poem "Hiding" where do Mother and Father look for Benny?





In Lydia Maria Child's poem "Thanksgiving Day" which I always think of as "Over the River," what color is the horse?





When the little girl with the little curl got caught, her mother was initially going after the boys she thought were playing where?
From "There Was a Little Girl" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow





In "A Fairy Went A-Marketing" what did the fairy end up doing with the winter gown she bought?





When the owl and the pussycat went to sea, from whom did they obtain their wedding ring?







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