Choose the best answer for each question. At the end of the quiz, your score will appear here. Note: this quiz is based on the original story. Some of the questions and answers may not be applicable to our simplified story.
Why have few people from the outside world ever found The Great Walled Country?
There is nothing there but ice and snow.
The wall of ice is very high and very thick.
It is too far to go with ships and sleds.
Why are the children in The Great Walled Country happy with their King and Queen?
They give the children bread and milk before bed.
They are very good at doing their job.
The children never have to buy Christmas presents.
Why is The Great Walled Country important to Grandfather Christmas?
Without the ice wall around it his house would fall down.
The children like to have Grandfather Christmas for a neighbor.
He visits there before taking presents to the rest of the world.
What do the children in The Great Walled Country usually do in the forest on the night before Christmas?
Look in the trees for their Christmas presents.
Try to find nice things to give to their friends.
Meet with people from whom they have secrets.
Why did the stranger suggest changing how the children get their Christmas presents?
So that Grandfather Christmas would bring better presents.
It seemed a simpler way for everyone to get what they wanted.
They would be able to get more presents by doing it that way.
Why was Inge unhappy about the new law about Christmas?
None of his friends could bring back the perfect gift for him.
He didn't like not being allowed to bring back gifts for other people.
He couldn't think what he really wanted, but was sure his friends would know.
Why didn't Inge offer to show the other children the presents in his bag?
Because he didn't want them to know where he found them.
Because he had left many more behind than he brought away.
Because they would know that he had broken the new law.
Why was Grandfather Christmas sleepy when the children woke him up?
Because he had just finished delivering presents all over the world.
Because it wasn't the right time for him to get out of bed.
Because he had turned the hands of the clock around two hundred times.
Why couldn't the children see any presents in the forest?
You could only see them when looking for presents for others.
Presents were only left for Inge, the boy with the sister who cannot walk.
Because not everything that wise travelers tell you is wise.
Why is this story read to the children in The Great Walled Country each Christmas?
To remind them only to look for presents for other people.
So that the children would know what Grandfather Christmas had said.
To teach them to think carefully about changing things in the future.