Quiz: Poems of early childhood

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

Sorrel
Black
White
Appaloosa

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

Swine
Cows
The lazy dog
Chickens

How many fiddlers did Old King Cole send for?

3
4
5
6

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

Wash, dry, clap, and warm them
Wash, dry, shake hands, and pray with them
Clap, pat, wash, and wave them
Clap, wave, wash and dry them

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"?

Waffles and syrup
cinnamon toast and milk
PBJ and chocolate milk
Animal crackers and cocoa

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

Under the cushions, inside the clock, on the top shelf
In the inkwell, under the carpet, and inside the mirror
Inside the dresser, under the bed, behind the drapes
Outside in the yard, upstairs in the attic, down in the cellar

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

Strawberry roam
White
Pinto
Dappled gray

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

On the back porch
The empty attic
With the cellar door
In the woodshed

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

She wore it to the Toadstool Ball
She tore it into shreds
She gave it to a little frog
She lost it in the creek

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

Piggy
Bossy, the cow
The pirate Rat
Turkey

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