Christmas Everyday Questions

What kind of story does the girl ask her Papa to tell her?

• A story about Christmas.

• A story about a turkey.

• A story about a fairy.

• A story about greed at Christmas.

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How did the little girl feel the first time Christmas happened again the very next day?

• She was confused about her wish coming true.

• She was horrified that her wish actually came true.

• She was happy her wish had come true.

• She was afraid that her wish had come true.

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According to the story, at the end of a week of Christmases, what had everyone lost?

• a lot of sleep

• their tempers

• their pride

• their trees

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Why didn't the little girl want to ask the fairy to take back her gift?

• because it seemed ungrateful for her to ask her that

• because the fairy would punish her

• because it was against the fairy's rules

• because she was afraid of the fairy.

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Christmas went on and on. It was Christmas on St. Valentine's Day and Washington's Birthday, just the same as any day. Christmas didn't skip even the First of April, though everything was counterfeit that day, and that wa some little relief. Counterfeit means fake or false. Why would everything be counterfeit on the first of April?

• because April is in the spring

• because people would be so tired of pretending to like Christmas by then.

• because April the 1st is April Fool's Day

• because the real toys would have run out by then, so they would be buying fake ones.

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Why did coal and potatoes become scarce?

• because people were throwing them at their unwanted gifts.

• because people were using them so much to cook

• because people were using them in trains

• because people were using them as gag gifts

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According to the story, after a while, they had to make Christmas trees out of ___________.

• bushes

• sticks

• rags

• paper

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Nearly everybody had built ________ to hold their presents.

• boxes

• shelves

• closets

• barns

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The people never got out of the poorhouses.

• True

• False

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When the people found out that it was the little girl who made the wish for Christmas to last a year, the story says that, "People just perfectly despised her, because if it had not been for her greediness, it wouldn't have happened..." What does the word despised mean?

• tested

• understood

• hated

• warned

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