Q 01/05
A) A basket of candy
B) A carved lantern
C) A bag of toys
D) A pumpkin pie
Answer · why
A bag of toys makes him a Halloween Santa Claus, and that was Schulz's whole joke: a small boy who has muddled one holiday's legend with the next and ...
Q 02/05
A) A baseball mitt
B) A security blanket
C) A toy grand piano
D) A stuffed toy rabbit
Answer · why
A security blanket: Schulz did not invent the phrase, but Linus made it famous, and dictionaries trace its figurative sense, anything a person clings ...
Q 03/05
A) A quarter
B) A rock
C) A cookie
D) A penny
Answer · why
A rock at each of three houses: producer Lee Mendelson protested that even one was too cruel, which only made his partners triple it, and 'I got a roc...
Q 04/05
A) Violet
B) Lucy
C) Frieda
D) Patty
Answer · why
Violet's invitation thrills him, but at the party the girls only want his round head as a model, and sketch a jack-o'-lantern face on the back of it.
Q 05/05
A) Slug him
B) Sue him
C) Haunt him
D) Disown him
Answer · why
Sue him is exactly what she shouts, 'I'll sue!', in a tirade that ends with her shaking Linus by the shirt; she had given up trick-or-treating and the...
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