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EDU/ENH291: The Hidden Meaning of Nursery Rhymes
Match the rhyme with its descriptive phrase.
_____ Lady Bug, Lady Bug
_____ Pop Goes the Weasel
_____ As I Was Going by Charing Cross
_____ See a Pin and Pick It Up
_____ Rain, Rain, Go Away
_____ Blow Wind, Blow
_____ Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
_____ Christmas Is Coming
_____ Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
_____ Needles and Pins
_____ Multiplication Is Vexation
_____ Jack and Jill
_____ Georgie Porgie
_____ Baa Baa Black Sheep
_____ There Was a Crooked Man
_____ Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark
_____ I Had a Little Hobby Horse
_____ Humpty Dumpty
_____ Little Jack Horner
_____ There Was a Little Girl
_____ As I Was Going to St. Ives
_____ Little Bo Peep
_____ For Want of a Nail
_____ Goosey Goosey Gander
_____ Jack Be Nimble
_____ Three Blind Mice
_____ Jack Spratt
_____ Old Mother Hubbard
A. the public execution of King Charles I
B. custom of husbands providing money to purchase
pins
C. Act of Uniformity, when everyone was ordered to
worship in the Protestant church; farmers burning
crops to eliminate bugs
D. deeds to 12 English estates hidden in a pie
E. the defeat of the Spanish Armada by England
F. nobleman who adhered to the Protestant faith and
were burnt at the stake
G. French King Louis XVI and his Queen, Mary
Antoinette, being beheaded
H. making of bread through the use of windmills
I. a torrid gay sex scandal involving King Charles I
J. logic problem designed to improve the deductive skills
of children
K. the festive period where each should give to charity,
according to their means, even if all they could give
was their blessing
L. a large cannon used in the English Civil War
M. not a rhyme, but a poem by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
N. one must take responsibility of falling asleep or face
the consequences
O. Queen Mary I’s tactics of torture and execution of
Protestants in Britain during her reign
P. King Edward I imposed huge taxation on wool exports
from Britain
Q. Cockney persons were poor and would sometimes
pawn their Sunday coats so they could go to the pub
R. strangers were looked upon with horror during the
Bubonic Plague; beggars pleading for money in the
streets
S. logical progression to the consequences of one’s
actions
T. the witch hunts and witch finders of a notorious era
U. King Charles I and his Queen impose an illegal war tax
to finance war on Spain
V. Catholic priests hide in “Priest Holes” to avoid
persecution
W. written by a Scottish genius who invented logarithms
X. English pirate who escaped from authorities; the sport
of candle leaping
Y. problem in England when King Henry closed all the
monasteries
Z. King Henry VIII’s stables of racing horses bred for
gambling purposes
AA.Cardinal Thomas Wolsey failed to faciliatate King
Henry VIII’s divorce from Queen Katherine
BB.Scottish General signed a Covenant securing religious
and political freedom for Scotland