WorksheetsQuiz on the origin of Santa Claus
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
The area of which current country did Nikolaos of Myra originally live in?
Greece
Turkey
Bulgaria
Denmark
When did he live?
In the 5th-6th century
In the 11th-12th century
In the 3rd-4th century
In the 13th-14th century
What was his position at the Christian church?
He was a priest
He was a bishop
He was an archbishop
He was a vicar
How did he earn his reputation?
By helping the poor and secretly giving gifts to whoever needed them.
By reforming the Christian church.
By giving away all his valuables for charity to the poor.
By converting a lot a pagan people to Christianity.
According to the legend they mention in the video, he left bags of money in a poor man's ...
window
boots
window and fireplace
coat
Legend has it that Nikolaos helped this poor man because...
he and his daughters did not have anything to eat.
he was so poor that he could not marry off his daughters.
he was a very religious man, and his daughters too.
he had lost all his furtune before and begged him to help.
To honour his memory, in the Middle Ages people gave gifts to children...
on the night before Christmas.
on 6th December, because that was the day Saint Nikolaos had died.
on the night before 6th December.
on the 2nd Day of Christmas.
Later on, the figure of St. Nikolaos (or St. Nicholas) became associated with Christmas. Several nations adopted his character into their Christmas iconography. For example, his figure has been named Sinterklaas in...
Austria
Germany
Denmark
Switzerland
From the 16th century onwards, new settlers in America...
brought the Christmas traditions with them and kept them alive the same way the Church did in Europe.
brought the Christmas traditions with them and also mixed them with other pre-Christian myths and customs.
created totally new Christmas habits and mythology for themselves with the help of some poets and writers of the era.
decided to live a puritan way of life, according to the Bible, and did not adopt childish Christmas myths and legends.
The legend of Santa Claus driving a sleigh pulled by reindeer comes from...
the Netherlands.
Finland.
a 19th-century poem.
American fairy tales from the 18th century.
The first portrayals of Santa as a grandfather-like person in a red cloak came from...
early American commercials on TV.
the early 20th century, from children's books.
cartoons appearing as illustrations to the poem 'A Visit from St. Nicholas', in 1823.
illustrations that a cartoonist drew for an American magazine in the 19th century.
Visually and mythologically, the well-known Santa Claus figure (as we know it today) had alrealy been created...
by the early 20th century.
by the mid-19th century.
by the 1820s.
by the 1870s.
