Christmas Around the World

Choose an answer from the three choices offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. Where did the custom of sending Christmas cards and hanging mistletoe originate?

• France
• Germany
• United Kingdom

2. During what festival do Spanish children receive gifts in the shoes that they place on a balcony or near a window?

• Advent
• Creche
• Epiphany

3. In what country do children believe that Saint Nicholas arrives on a boat from Spain and rides down the streets on a white horse accompanied by his servant, Swarte Piet (Black Pete)?

• Egypt
• The Netherlands
• Portugal

4. In what country do children receive gifts from La Befana, a kindly old witch?

• Italy
• Mexico
• Spain

5. In what country do people spend the nine days before Christmas reenacting Mary and Joseph's search for lodgings on the first Christmas Eve?

• Australia
• Mexico
• Sweden

6. Historians believe that St. Nicholas, who inspired the legend of Santa Claus, was born in what country?

• Germany
• Norway
• Turkey

Check Your Answers

• 1. United Kingdom
• 2. Epiphany
• 3. The Netherlands
• 4. Italy
• 5. Mexico
• 6. Turkey

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