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Quiz about When We Were Very Young
Quiz about When We Were Very Young

When We Were Very Young ... Trivia Quiz


... we used to enjoy this book of poems by A. A. Milne. Can you match each of these titles with the line or lines provided from each poem?

A matching quiz by looney_tunes. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
looney_tunes
Time
3 mins
Type
Match Quiz
Quiz #
387,825
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
1253
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Josechingon (5/10), winston1 (10/10), teachdpo (10/10).
(a) Drag-and-drop from the right to the left, or (b) click on a right side answer box and then on a left side box to move it.
QuestionsChoices
1. Alice is marrying one of the guard  
  Missing
2. John had / Great Big / Waterproof / Boots on  
  Lines and Squares
3. Whenever I walk in a London street, I'm ever so careful to watch my feet  
  The King's Breakfast
4. James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree  
  Halfway Down
5. There are lions and roaring tigers, and enormous camels and things  
  Rice Pudding
6. What is the matter with Mary Jane?  
  Happiness
7. Has anybody seen my mouse?  
  Disobedience
8. "Could we have some butter for / The Royal slice of bread?"  
  At the Zoo
9. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top   
  Buckingham Palace
10. Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed, Droops on the little hands little gold head  
  Vespers





Select each answer

1. Alice is marrying one of the guard
2. John had / Great Big / Waterproof / Boots on
3. Whenever I walk in a London street, I'm ever so careful to watch my feet
4. James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree
5. There are lions and roaring tigers, and enormous camels and things
6. What is the matter with Mary Jane?
7. Has anybody seen my mouse?
8. "Could we have some butter for / The Royal slice of bread?"
9. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top
10. Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed, Droops on the little hands little gold head

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Dec 14 2024 : Josechingon: 5/10
Nov 27 2024 : winston1: 10/10
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Alice is marrying one of the guard

Answer: Buckingham Palace

The first line ("They're changing the guard at Buckingham Palace") would have been pretty obvious, but that fact is significant because Alice took Christopher Robin down to watch, and offered all sorts of enlightening information during the excursion. "A soldier's life is terrible hard", "one of the sergeants looks after their socks", and the reason why the king wasn't there was that "'He's much too busy a-signing things,' says Alice."
2. John had / Great Big / Waterproof / Boots on

Answer: Happiness

Ah, the joy of splashing in puddles! And the rhythm of this poem is just right to be shouted out as you stamp away after (or during) the rain. As the poem says, in its entirety:

"John had
Great Big
Waterproof
Boots on;
John had a
Great Big
Waterproof
Hat;
John had a
Great Big
Waterproof
Mackintosh --
And that
(Said John)
Is
That."

And so say all of us. Of course, there were three children in my family, so the splashing was often directed towards a sibling, and not just the random joyful splashing implied in the poem.
3. Whenever I walk in a London street, I'm ever so careful to watch my feet

Answer: Lines and Squares

We've all made sure to avoid stepping in the cracks in the pavement, but not all of us do so in order to keep the bears waiting at the corner under control! After a successful outing, "It's ever so jolly to call out, 'Bears, / Just watch me walking in all the squares!'"
4. James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree

Answer: Disobedience

In a charming reversal of the usual roles, it was not he who was disobedient, it was his mother. Despite being warned not to wander on her own, she tried to go down to the end of the town without his help. The result was that

"King John
Put up a notice,
'LOST or STOLEN or STRAYED!
JAMES JAMES MORRISON'S MOTHER
SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN MISLAID.
LAST SEEN
WANDERING VAGUELY:
QUITE OF HER OWN ACCORD,
SHE TRIED TO GET DOWN
TO THE END OF THE TOWN -
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD!'"

As children, we used to love to chant along with this poem, especially the final verse that is whispered, with the final word shouted to release all the tension built up by the effort to whisper and not giggle.
5. There are lions and roaring tigers, and enormous camels and things

Answer: At the Zoo

And that's not all - you can also see a vast array of animals, including biffalo-buffalo-bisons,a great big bear with wings, a sort of a tiny potamus, a tiny nosserus, badgers and bidgers and bodgers, and "a sort of a something
which is called a wallaboo". The highlight of the trip, however, was giving buns to the elephant.
6. What is the matter with Mary Jane?

Answer: Rice Pudding

Nobody can work out why Mary Jane is crying so hard, as "She's perfectly well and she hasn't a pain, And it's lovely rice pudding for dinner again!" The original illustration from E. H. Shepard showed a girl perched on her chair with her legs kicking, clearly not impressed with the world.
7. Has anybody seen my mouse?

Answer: Missing

A. A. Milne clearly had experience (either as a child or as a parent) with the misfortunes associated with owning small pets. This poem is about the cute brown mouse that went missing after its box was opened, just for a minute. In the collection "Now We Are Six", there is a poem called "Forgiven", in which Alexander Beetle similarly escapes, this time because Nanny opened the matchbox in which the Alexander was residing.
8. "Could we have some butter for / The Royal slice of bread?"

Answer: The King's Breakfast

Tragedy strikes the royal palace when the cow suggests that he consider having marmalade instead of butter for his breakfast, and he retires to sob in bed. All is set aright when the Queen asks the Dairymaid who asks the cow to reconsider, and both milk and butter appear on command. (At the age when these poems are generally read, the time required to produce the butter isn't a consideration - it's only as an adult that I read it and think, "Wait a minute".)
9. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top

Answer: Halfway Down

After hearing this poem about the joys of sitting on the step in the middle of the stairs, we went out and discovered that our house had an even number of steps, so there wasn't a middle one - very disappointing. The middle stair seems almost magical:

"Halfway up the stairs
Isn't up
And it isn't down.
It isn't in the nursery,
It isn't in town.
And all sorts of funny thoughts
Run round my head.
It isn't really
Anywhere!
It's somewhere else
Instead!"
10. Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed, Droops on the little hands little gold head

Answer: Vespers

Vespers is properly an evening prayer service, but here is applied to the simple prayers of a young child on his way to bed. Its final lines provide a lovely closing to the book:

"Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers."
Source: Author looney_tunes

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