Q 01/05

What is the name of the Grinch's loyal dog?

A) Max

B) Rex

C) Buddy

D) Spot

Answer · why

A) Max

Chuck Jones set the dog up as observer and victim, in the mould of Porky Pig opposite Daffy Duck.

Q 02/05

Which publisher released the book in 1957?

A) Random House

B) Houghton Mifflin

C) Scholastic

D) Simon & Schuster

Answer · why

A) Random House

The manuscript was finished and in the post to the publisher's New York office by mid-May 1957.

Q 03/05

Where does the Grinch live?

A) In a forest outside town

B) Under a bridge outside Whoville

C) On top of Mt. Crumpit

D) On a hill across the valley

Answer · why

C) On top of Mt. Crumpit

The book never says where Whoville itself is; Horton Hears a Who! puts it on a speck of dust.

Q 04/05

What town do the Whos live in?

A) Whostown

B) Whoville

C) Whooperville

D) Who City

Answer · why

B) Whoville

The town first appeared three years earlier in Horton Hears a Who!

Q 05/05

What happens to the Grinch's heart at the end of the story?

A) It stays the same

B) It shrinks even more

C) It turns to ice

D) It grew three sizes

Answer · why

D) It grew three sizes

The narrator adds that he then found 'the strength of ten grinches, plus two'.

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