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100

The Cajun St. Nick's suit is made of this.

What is muskrat?

100

Clatter means this.

What is to make a noise?

100

Fill in the blanks:

His eyes, how they twinkled!

His dimples, how merry!

His cheeks were like __________,

His nose like a ________.

What are roses and cherry?

100

One book is considered Cajun.  The other one is considered what?

What is traditional?

100

The children were doing this in their bed.

What is sleeping?

200

St. Nick left the house this way in the traditional story.

St. Nick left the house in the Cajun story.

What is the chimney?

What is the front door?

200

To encircle means this.

What is circling around the head?

200

This is one way that the "reindeer" were similar.

What is 8?

What is flying?

200

This is similar between the two sets of "reindeer".

What is 8 or what is flying?

300

Cajun St. Nick got a hole in his suit this way.

What is landing in the fireplace on top of the coals.

300

A peddler is this.

Who is a person that sells things on the street or collects things in a bag?

300

Both families in the different stories were sleeping in two different places.  Name them.

What is the floor in the Cajun story and what is the bed for the traditional story?

300

St. Nick in the Cajun story got to the roof in this way.

St. Nick in the traditional story got to the roof is a different way.

What is climb up the wall?

What is to fly?

300

This is what both families heard.

What is a clatter?

400

Name the eight traditional reindeer.

Who are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen?

400

A courser is this.

What is a reindeer?

400

The settings for the two stories are these.

What is traditional in the city and Cajun in the swamp?

400

There are more than two differences between the sets of "reindeer".  Name two.

What is flying vs. swimming?

What is alligators vs. Reindeer?

What are "reindeer" names?

400

St. Nick's cheeks looked like this.

What is "cheeks like roses, nose like a cherry?"

500

The names of the eight Cajun reindeer are these.

What is Gaston, Tiboy, Pierre, Alcee, Ninette, Suzette, Celeste, and Renee?

500

This is the meaning of tarnished.

Santa's suit was tarnished with this.

What is dirty?

What is ashes or soot?

500

This is what St. Nick said as he was leaving the traditional house.

This is what St. Nick said as he was leaving the Cajun house.

What is "Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night".

What is "Merry Christmas to all 'til I see you some mo'".

500

Name two things that are similar between both stories.

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