Posted (John David Anderson)
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40 free Posted (John David Anderson) trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
John David Anderson's Posted starts with a simple rule change: Branton Middle School bans cell phones. Students switch to sticky notes, and what begins as jokes on lockers turns into something much harder to peel off. The novel is a regular on state reading lists because it shows how much damage a few written words can do, and how much good. This quiz follows the story from the phone ban to the final lunch table. Expect questions on narrator Eric Voss and his friends Bench, Deedee and Wolf, on newcomer Rose Holland and her ride down the Gauntlet, on Mr. Sword's English class, and on the author behind it all. It suits students checking their reading before a class test, teachers and librarians who want a ready-made review, and book clubs that have just finished the novel. Every answer has a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches something.
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Q 01Which poet inspires the nickname of Eric Voss, narrator of Posted, after a fifth-grade contest win?
Robert Frost
Robert Frost was the poet Eric imitated in a poem written after his father moved out, and a teacher's praise made the name stick.
Q 02In Posted, what does Eric Voss call the cruel exchange of sticky notes that sweeps Branton Middle School?
A war
A war is how Eric frames it, and the comparison runs deep: he likens middle school itself to a minefield.
Q 03In Posted, what word does Eric Voss use for his tight circle of four misfit friends at lunch?
A tribe
A tribe is Eric's word for the four boys, who drifted together because none of them fit into any other group.
Q 04In Posted, Morgan Thompson's nickname, Wolf, is a nod to which famous composer?
Mozart
Mozart, or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in full, lends his first name to the level-headed musician of Eric's group.
Q 05In Posted, a game-winning catch in which sport draws Bench from his old lunch table?
Football
Football finally makes a hero of Bench, who earned his nickname by spending most games sitting on the sidelines.
Q 06What do bullies threaten to do to Deedee at Branton Middle School in Posted just before Rose steps in?
A toilet dunking
A toilet dunking was the threat, and Rose's counter-offer raised the stakes: if she lost her bet, she and Eric would get one too.
Q 07After losing the Gauntlet challenge to Rose in Posted, what must the bully wear on a sticky note all day?
An apology
An apology, and a short one, is all Rose asks for, and the bully ends the day by sticking it to Deedee's locker.
Q 08Whatever animal Rose Holland claims to be folding in Posted, her origami always comes out looking like what?
A fish
A fish is the only thing Rose ever folds, yet she insists each one is a different animal, and Eric slowly learns to play along.
Q 09Which cruel nickname do athletes at Branton Middle School pin on new girl Rose Holland in Posted?
Moose
Moose is the taunt Bench hears from other athletes, and it later arrives on a sticky note as a drawing of a dead one.
Q 10Deedee's nickname in Posted comes from D&D; what role does he play in the friends' campaigns?
Dungeon Master
Dungeon Master is Deedee's job, which makes it awkward when Rose insists on a character his rulebook does not allow.
Q 11Eric Voss and his friends are in which grade in Posted when new girl Rose Holland joins their lunch table?
Eighth
Eighth grade is when Rose arrives, two years after the four boys first banded together as sixth graders.
Q 12Wolf is the music prodigy of Eric Voss's lunch table in Posted; which instrument does he play?
Piano
Piano is the talent behind Wolf's nickname, which comes from a classical composer's first name.
Q 13Which Shakespeare play is Mr. Sword teaching in Posted while sticky notes take over Branton Middle School?
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar brings a lecture on ancient Rome, and a bully's snide remark about Romans during it visibly bothers Wolf.
Q 21Trying to stump Rose's origami skills at lunch in Posted, which hard-to-fold animal does Eric Voss request?
Komodo dragon
A Komodo dragon was his challenge, and that night Rose emailed him a video on folding one, which he botched with a sticky note.
Q 22What does Eric Voss learn about Rose Holland in Posted when his mother drives her home after the Gauntlet?
She comes from money
She comes from money: the house is big and the neighborhood expensive, so the worn clothes turn out to be a choice.
Q 23Which character does Rose invent for her first D&D game with Eric Voss's friends in Posted?
A gnome ninja
Q 14After his locker is defaced in Posted, what does Wolf decide to do, despite a wave of support?
Leave for a new school
To leave for a new school is Wolf's own choice, not a retreat, and he still meets his old friends for D&D.
Q 15In Posted, what fills the sticky notes that students and staff layer over Wolf's defaced locker?
Compliments and kind words
Compliments and kind words cover the newly repainted locker, overlapping so thickly that Eric compares them to chain-mail armor.
Q 16Posted is set in the fictional small town of Branton, which John David Anderson places in which state?
Michigan
Michigan is home to Branton, a town small enough that one student's angry text reaches the whole community within days.
Q 17What does Rose Holland borrow from Eric Voss to practice for her Gauntlet run in Posted?
His bike
His bike carries Rose all the way down the tree-studded hill, while her rival is knocked off near the bottom.
Q 18What does Wolf smash at home in Posted after finding a slur written on his locker?
Model cars and planes
Model cars and planes he had built over the years are wrecked, leaving his bedroom looking hollowed out when Eric visits.
Q 19In Posted, Ruby Sandels sends the text that gets cell phones banned after a teacher accuses her of what?
Cheating
Cheating was the charge from her science teacher, along with a failing mark, and her sweary reply was school gossip by lunch.
Q 20English teacher Mr. Sword gives each student a blank sticky note in Posted and asks them to write what?
An aphorism
An aphorism is a one-line piece of wisdom, and he sends the class off to stick theirs where other people will read them.
A gnome ninja who casts spells is against the rulebook, and Rose wins the argument by reminding everyone who runs the game.
Q 24In Rose's first D&D session in Posted, her run of high dice rolls destroys a horde of what in a crypt?
Zombies
Zombies had the party beaten until Rose's string of high rolls turned the battle, and she led them on to the final boss.
Q 25After sticky notes are banned in Posted, what does Mr. Sword do with any he catches in class?
Throws them away unread
He throws them away unread, which spares students a trip to the principal and, Eric suspects, the harm the words could do.
Q 26What happens to the bully who defaced Wolf's locker in Posted once the principal learns his name?
He is suspended
He is suspended, while phones return to Branton with a new rule and the principal launches an anti-bullying drive.
Q 27When Eric Voss reaches the principal's office in Posted to name the locker vandals, what has Bench already done?
Reported them himself
Bench had reported them himself, proof that he still looks out for the friends he no longer eats lunch with.
Q 28What makes home life hard for Wolf in Posted, in contrast to the divorce Eric Voss lives through?
Parents who fight
Parents who fight, yelling at each other, are what Wolf goes home to, while Eric's house fell quiet before his own parents split.
Q 29On which day of the week do Eric Voss and his friends regularly meet to play D&D in Posted?
Saturday
Saturday is game day, and the session Rose joins at Wolf's house goes ahead without Bench, who is out celebrating.
Q 30Which novel by Posted author John David Anderson, about three sixth graders, was a New York Times Notable Book?
Ms. Bixby's Last Day
Ms. Bixby's Last Day sends its boys on a day-long mission to thank a teacher who is out sick for the rest of the year.