The Just So Stories

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1. In 'How the Whale Got His Throat', an Irish Mariner called Henry Albert Bivvens is swallowed by a whale. What are we enjoined never to forget in this captivating tale? his jack-knife his raft the 'Stute Fish his suspenders

2. It's the little 'Stute fish who leads to all the trouble in 'How the Whale Got His Throat'. What was the little 'Stute fish's name? Pingle Pringle Dingle Ringo

3. In 'How the Camel Got His Hump', what was the camel's name? Humphrey Trouble Kemal Bubbles

4. There are small poems and charming pictures in 'Just So Stories'. According to one of these poems, how do both children and adults get the same hump as the Camel? Having too little to do Having to answer questions Having too much to do Having to go to school

5. In 'How the Rhinocerus Got His Skin', what did the Parsee take off when a heat wave came to the Red Sea? His gloves His clothes His hat His skin

6. What was the name of the rinoceros in 'How the Rhinocerus Got His Skin'? He apparently got the name because he breathed through his mouth instead of his nose. Stronks Strorks Strowks Strolks

7. According to 'How the Leopard Got His Spots', who is Quite the Wisest Animal in All South Africa'? Baloo the Bear Hathi the Elephant Baviaan the Baboon Kaa the Rock Python

8. In the story 'How the Leopard Got His Spots', the leopard and the Ethiopian find they show up in the forest. What is NOT one of the ways they use to describe each other? Like a sunflower against a tarred fence Like a bar of soap in a coal-scuttle Like a pumpkin on a cricket field Like a mustard plaster on a sack of coals

9. In 'The Elephant's Child', who advises the Elephant's Child to go to the 'great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees', to find out what the crocodile has for dinner? Kolokolo Bird Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake his tall aunt, the Ostrich his hairy uncle, the Baboon

10. In 'The Elephant's Child', the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake has a lovely turn of phrase, describing the crocodile as 'your acquaintance in the large-pattern leather ulster' and 'yonder self-propelling man-of-war with the armour-plated upper deck'. How does he describe the Elephant's Child's original nose? teeny-weeny ickle-wittle mere-smear mere-sphere

11. When the Elephant's child got back with his lovely new nose, he took revenge on everyone that had spanked him. What did he NOT do? pulled out his aunt, the Ostrich's, tail-feathers threw his cousin, the Bear, into a bees' nest dragged his uncle, the Giraffe, through a thorn-bush threw his hairy uncle, the Baboon, into a hornets' nest

12. In 'The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo', the Kangaroo went to Little God Nqa at six in the morning to ask to be made what from all the other animals by five o'clock in the afternoon? Answer: (One Word - uniqueness beckons?)

13. In the story 'The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo', Yellow-Dog Dingo is described as grinning like a... several times. What is NOT one of the ways he grins? like a coal-scuttle like a horse-collar like a coal-trap like an alligator

14. Where was Big God Nqong when Old Man Kangaroo went to make his wish? on his seat on the sand-flat in his bath in the salt-pan in his burrow in the spinifex in the ti-trees

15. In 'The Beginning of the Armadillos', what does the contradictory gibberish Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise give to Painted Jaguar do? makes his ears ache makes his teeth hurt makes his spots ache make his claws itch

16. In 'The Beginning of the Armadillos', Painted Jaguar's Mummy teaches him a rhyme to keep the Hedgehog and Tortoise apart. Does he remember it? Yes No

17. In the story 'The Beginning of the Armadillos', what is Painted Jaguar's pet name with his Mummy? Painted Jaguars don't have pet names Wuffles Doffles Fluffy

18. In 'How the First Letter Was Written', everyone has very long names! The little girl is Taffimal Metallumai, which means 'Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked'. What does the narrator call her? Taffy Metall Spwamwotbs Mali

19. There's a Stranger-man in the story 'How the First Letter Was Written' - what is his tribe? Akhoond Tewara Woon Negus

20. In 'How the Alphabet Was Made', the word for spear is made up of a snake, Taffy's Mummy's drying poles and her Daddy's spear - from these clues, can you work out Tegumai for spear? CTI CHI SHI SYL

21. What was drawn for the B-sound in 'How the Alphabet Was Made'? the sacred Beaver of the Tegumai the sacred Bull of the Tegumai the sacred Badger of the Tegumai the sacred Beagle of the Tegumai

22. What was the name of 'The Crab That Played With the Sea' in the 'Just So Stories'? Pau Amma Pa Ummu Clarence Umm Papa

23. In 'The Cat that Walked by Himself', who becomes First Servant? Wild Cat Wild Dog Wild Horse Wild Cow

24. Who, in 'The Cat that Walked by Himself', is the only one who knows where Cat hid? the Horse the Dog the Bat the Cow

25. And finally, if you have been reading 'The Just So Stories' - and I hope you have and do - you have been addressed as what by the author? Dearest Darling Regarded Reader Faithful Friend Best Beloved