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40 free Bad Kitty trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Bad Kitty is the grumpy black housecat at the center of one of the best-loved chapter book series for young readers. Each book mixes cartoon panels, slapstick and a surprising amount to learn, which is why the stories turn up in so many classrooms and reading programs. This quiz follows Kitty through her biggest adventures: the day she goes to class in School Daze, the arrival that upends her home in Meets the Baby, the exam she never wanted in Takes the Test, and Drawn to Trouble, where the person who draws her steps into the story. There are also questions on the picture books, Puppy, the neighborhood cats and how the series came about. It suits readers who have finished a book and want to check what they remember, and teachers, librarians and parents looking for ready-made comprehension questions with the answers explained.
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Q 01Who writes and illustrates the Bad Kitty books, and even drew himself into Drawn to Trouble?
Nick Bruel
Nick Bruel named the forgetful but kind Uncle Murray after his own real-life uncle of the same name.
Q 02The first Bad Kitty picture book, where a hungry Kitty wrecks the house, sorts her misdeeds by what?
The alphabet
The alphabet runs through the book four times: once for the foods Kitty hates, once for her rampage, once for the treats she loves and once for her good deeds.
Q 03In the first Bad Kitty book, Kitty turns bad when her owners can offer her only which kind of food?
Vegetables
Vegetables are all her owners have left after running out of cat food, and Kitty only calms down when they return from the grocery store with treats.
Q 04In Bad Kitty Takes the Test, which document does Kitty lose after tumbling out of a tree?
Her cat license
Her cat license is revoked by the Society of Cat Aptitude Management, whose initials spell SCAM, and only a class and an exam can win it back.
Q 05Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble doubles as a funny guide that teaches young readers how to do what?
Write a story
Write a story of your own, the book urges, after using a reluctant Kitty to explain character, plot, theme and conflict.
Q 06In Bad Kitty School Daze, Kitty and Puppy's constant fighting gets them sent to what kind of school?
Obedience
Obedience school proves gentler than it sounds: the teacher at Diabla Von Gloom's School for Wayward Pets insists there is no such thing as a bad pet.
Q 07What does Kitty proudly present to the class at show and tell in Bad Kitty School Daze?
A hairball
A hairball is the talent Kitty chooses to show off, yet her kindly teacher ends the day admiring Kitty's good qualities all the same.
Q 08In Bad Kitty Takes the Test, classmate Mittens wears fake cat ears to hide being what animal?
A chicken
A chicken is under those ears, and a second one later turns up to run the final exam with an agenda of its own.
Q 09In Bad Kitty Meets the Baby, Kitty finally picks up the baby and runs off when it is time for what?
A bath
A bath is the thing Kitty dreads most, with a whole earlier book devoted to her fight against one, so she whisks the baby away.
Q 10In Bad Kitty School Daze, the classmate who believes he is a mutant supervillain is what kind of animal?
A rabbit
A rabbit is all Dr. Lagomorph is: his one supervillain power is turning himself into a bunny, and his name is the biological term for the group rabbits belong to.
Q 11In Bad Kitty School Daze, cat-hating classmate Petunia decides that Kitty is really which animal?
A cow
A cow is what Petunia takes Kitty for at circle time, a mix-up that comes as a relief to a cat sharing a classroom with a sworn cat-hater.
Q 12Petunia, the classmate who hates cats in Bad Kitty School Daze, is which breed of dog?
Bulldog
Bulldog Petunia looks fierce but turns out to be a softy, and she returns in Puppy's Big Day with bows on her ears and romantic dreams.
Q 13In Bad Kitty School Daze, the School for Wayward Pets resembles what kind of building?
A haunted mansion
A haunted mansion is how the school looks, yet the gloomy building hides a patient, kind teacher, one of several ways the book upends expectations.
Q 21In Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble, the author draws which object so readers can see how handsome he is?
A mirror
A mirror follows an even odder request: the author first invites readers to smell the paper, or to download a paper-smelling app if they are reading on a screen.
Q 22In Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble, the author proposes a recovery diet for Kitty made entirely of what?
Turnips
Turnips are the author's cure, and the book closes with a real recipe for roasting them, though Kitty soon talks him into bringing her usual feast back.
Q 23In Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble, what blocks the door when Kitty packs her bags to leave home?
A giant octopus
Q 14In Bad Kitty School Daze, quiet Puppy surprises the class with a gift for which subjects?
Art and music
Art and music bring out a hidden talent in Puppy, a twist the book uses to show that appearances can deceive.
Q 15The first cover design for Bad Kitty School Daze was dropped because schools rarely still have what?
Blackboards
Blackboards featured in the original design, with Kitty chalking the title beside rude remarks about her teacher, but kids might not have recognized one.
Q 16In Bad Kitty Meets the Baby, what do Kitty's friends stage, only for the baby to beat them all?
An Olympic Games
An Olympic Games for cats, billed as the Pussycat Olympics, ends with Kitty beaten even in her best events, which sets off a full-blown temper tantrum.
Q 17In Bad Kitty Meets the Baby, what does Kitty's owner reveal about the baby that melts Kitty's anger?
She was adopted
She was adopted, the owner explains, and needs love just as Kitty does, news that moves the furious cat to tears.
Q 18In Bad Kitty Meets the Baby, whom must Kitty's pet sitter call out several days in a row?
Firefighters
Firefighters are summoned day after day, and the book's bonus chapters explain why cats that climb trees so often get stuck up there.
Q 19Strange Kitty, who teaches the class in Bad Kitty Takes the Test, is known for reading what?
Comic books
Comic books earned him the 'strange' label, since he would rather read them than chase mice, and he is one of the few animals in the series who talks.
Q 20Bad Kitty Takes the Test repeats an unproven tale that which scientist invented the cat door?
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton gets the credit in an anecdote the book admits is unproven, told alongside true accounts such as the first cat sent into space.
A giant octopus is the author's way of keeping his star in the book: it forces Kitty straight back inside.
Q 24Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble, where the author torments his own star, pays homage to which cartoons?
Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes cartoons inspired the book, a debt the author admits near the end when one of the cats accuses him of copying them.
Q 25In Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble, Puppy gobbles all of Kitty's dinner to play which role in a plot?
The antagonist
The antagonist is whoever stands in the hero's way, and Puppy fills the part so well that Kitty faints from shock.
Q 26At the start of Bad Kitty Takes the Test, Kitty climbs a tree hoping to play with what?
Two birds
Two birds lure her up, and the fall that follows makes her rethink her fondness for them and brings a stern letter from the cat authorities.
Q 27Bad Kitty Takes the Test shares the true tale of which agency's failed bid to train cats as spies?
The CIA
The CIA launched Project Acoustic Kitty in the 1960s, hoping cats fitted with hidden microphones could eavesdrop on Soviet embassies.
Q 28Kitty, the black cat of the Bad Kitty books, has a small tuft of white fur on which body part?
Her chest
Her chest carries the only white fur she has, a detail borrowed from Zou-zou, a cat the author owned as a child.
Q 29In the Bad Kitty chapter books, Uncle Murray regularly interrupts the plot to share what?
Real facts about cats
Real facts about cats fill his Fun Facts pages, which have tackled what felines fear and why they so rarely get along with dogs.
Q 30In Bad Kitty for President, Kitty runs for office because she is fed up with which newcomers?
Stray cats
Stray cats wandering into her neighborhood push Kitty to seek the presidency of the Neighborhood Cat Club, a job she first tries to claim by simply crowning herself.