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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?
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?
3. In 'How the Camel Got His Hump', what was the camel's name?
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?
5. In 'How the Rhinocerus Got His Skin', what did the Parsee take off when a heat wave came to the Red Sea?
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.
7. According to 'How the Leopard Got His Spots', who is Quite the Wisest Animal in All South Africa'?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
14. Where was Big God Nqong when Old Man Kangaroo went to make his wish?
15. In 'The Beginning of the Armadillos', what does the contradictory gibberish Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise give to Painted Jaguar do?
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?
17. In the story 'The Beginning of the Armadillos', what is Painted Jaguar's pet name with his Mummy?
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?
19. There's a Stranger-man in the story 'How the First Letter Was Written' - what is his tribe?
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?
21. What was drawn for the B-sound in 'How the Alphabet Was Made'?
22. What was the name of 'The Crab That Played With the Sea' in the 'Just So Stories'?
23. In 'The Cat that Walked by Himself', who becomes First Servant?
24. Who, in 'The Cat that Walked by Himself', is the only one who knows where Cat hid?
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?
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