The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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50 free The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants turned a simple idea into one of the best-loved young adult novels of the 2000s. Four best friends, about to spend their first summer apart, find a pair of jeans that somehow fits every one of them. They agree to pass the jeans around, and each girl's turn brings a story of first love, family trouble, grief or growing up. This quiz covers the first book in detail: Lena's summer with her grandparents in Greece, Tibby's job and her unlikely friendship with Bailey, Bridget's soccer camp and Carmen's difficult visit to her father. There are also questions on the rules of the Pants, the supporting characters, the later books in the series and the two film adaptations. It is written for readers who have just finished the novel, for book clubs and classrooms, and for anyone who grew up with the series and wants to see how much they remember. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01In The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, where does Carmen Lowell buy the jeans that somehow fit all four friends?
A thrift shop
A thrift shop near Georgetown sold her the jeans, which she bought mostly to prove that secondhand stores aren't dirty. She then threw them in her closet and nearly forgot them.
Q 02Which everyday chore do the rules of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants forbid all summer?
Washing them
Washing them is banned, so one pair of jeans crosses three countries through a hot summer without a single clean. The same vow limits each girl's turn to a week.
Q 03On which Greek island does Lena Kaligaris spend her summer with her grandparents and younger sister?
Santorini
Santorini is where her grandparents live, and Lena arrives unable to speak Greek with a grandfather who has no English. Their silent breakfasts become one of the summer's quiet pleasures.
Q 04Which illness does twelve-year-old Bailey have when Tibby Rollins reluctantly befriends her one summer?
Leukemia
Leukemia is what Bailey is fighting, and Tibby only learns of it when Bailey's mother mentions her medicine. Bailey dies before the summer is over.
Q 05How long have the four friends of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants been close before their first summer apart?
Since birth
Since birth is no exaggeration: the four arrived within weeks of one another, to mothers who were friends first. The mothers later drifted apart, which the girls swear never to do.
Q 06Which author made her fiction debut with The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and wrote four sequels?
Ann Brashares
Ann Brashares grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with three brothers, and set her story of four girlfriends in the same state. She has four children of her own.
Q 07What is Lena Kaligaris doing at a pond in Greece when Kostos Dounas accidentally walks in on her?
Skinny-dipping
Skinny-dipping on impulse is Lena's attempt to do something memorable on her last day with the jeans. She assumes Kostos followed her, and the mix-up sets their two families against each other.
Q 08What does Carmen Lowell smash with a rock after watching her father's new family eat dinner without her?
A window
A window in the dining room is what her rock goes through while the family sits at dinner. Carmen then runs, slips back in for her things and heads home to her mother.
Q 09Which actress plays soccer-mad Bridget Vreeland in the film version of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants?
Blake Lively
Blake Lively plays Bridget, in a production whose shoot began on a Greek island and moved on to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico. She returned for the sequel three years later.
Q 10Where does Tibby Rollins hide the body of her pet Mimi rather than face burying her?
The freezer
The freezer keeps Mimi, wrapped in a brown bag behind a cake, until Tibby is ready to say goodbye. She finally buries her pet beside Bailey.
Q 11In which state does Carmen Lowell arrive to find her father engaged to a woman with two teenage children?
South Carolina
South Carolina is where her father has built a new life in a big Victorian house. Carmen had pictured a bachelor apartment and a summer with him all to herself.
Q 12What does Tibby Rollins set out to make about her dull summer job, with her manager cast as its star?
A documentary
A documentary, mocking in tone, is the plan until Bailey signs on as her assistant. Tibby ends up reshaping it around the memories the two of them made.
Q 13What kind of pet is Mimi, whom Tibby Rollins envies for doing nothing all day while she goes to work?
A guinea pig
Q 21Who is the fiancée that Carmen Lowell first meets on the doorstep of her father's house?
Lydia
Lydia greets Carmen at the door with her teenagers, Krista and Paul. Carmen had expected to see her father's new apartment, not a big house with a family in it.
Q 22What does Lena Kaligaris give Kostos Dounas as an apology on her last day in Greece?
A painting
A painting of the olive grove, the spot she now knows is his, carries her apology. She then admits that she cares for him, and they kiss.
Q 23How does Lena Kaligaris's grandfather treat Kostos Dounas's grandfather after the mix-up at the pond?
Punches him
Punches him squarely in the face, in fact, and both old men end up at the clinic. Lena knows Kostos did nothing wrong but takes far too long to say so.
A guinea pig, Mimi gets to be lazy all day while Tibby has to go to work, and Tibby later wishes she could curl up in Mimi's box herself.
Q 14With whom does Bridget Vreeland fall recklessly in love at her summer soccer camp in Mexico?
Eric Richman
Eric Richman is one of the camp's coaches, and camp rules forbid coaches and campers from dating. Bridget chases him all summer anyway.
Q 15Which nickname does Bridget Vreeland use to introduce herself to her coach on a long run?
Bee
Bee is the name her friends use in their letters all summer, and the one she gives before challenging her coach to a sprint.
Q 16In which Maryland suburb do the four friends of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants grow up together?
Bethesda
Bethesda is home, and it is where Tibby stays behind while the other three leave for Greece, Mexico and a father's house far away.
Q 17How does twelve-year-old Bailey first come to Tibby Rollins's attention in the aisles of the drugstore?
She faints
She faints in aisle two when a display Tibby built falls apart on top of her. Tibby rides along in the ambulance and is holding her hand when she wakes.
Q 18Which label does narrator Carmen Lowell pin on Tibby Rollins when sorting the four friends into types?
The rebel
The rebel is Tibby's tag, while Lena is the pretty one, Bridget the athlete and Carmen the one who holds the group together.
Q 19Which outgoing younger sister travels to Greece with Lena Kaligaris in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants?
Effie
Effie, fourteen, is everything Lena isn't: outgoing, flirtatious and at ease with people. It is Effie who finally tells Lena that she is in love.
Q 20What is the name of the drugstore where Tibby Rollins stacks shelves in a polyester smock all summer?
Wallman's
Wallman's is where Tibby works under manager Duncan Howe, who on her first day accuses her of pocketing a roll of tape.
Q 24What does Lena Kaligaris call her quiet Greek grandfather, with whom she shares wordless breakfasts?
Bapi
Bapi turns out to be as quiet and private as Lena herself, and by summer's end she sees how alike the two of them are.
Q 25At which sport does Carmen Lowell thrash her future stepbrother Paul after sitting through his soccer match?
Tennis
Tennis was meant to be her game with her father, who cancels to deal with a wedding crisis. Carmen takes it out on Paul across the net.
Q 26Which video game is Brian McBrian's obsession when Tibby Rollins and Bailey film him at a convenience store?
Dragon Master
Dragon Master is the game Brian later teaches Tibby to play, and she goes on to play it for Bailey at her hospital bedside.
Q 27Which piercing does Tibby Rollins blame when her new boss wrongly accuses her of stealing tape?
A nose ring
A nose ring is part of the tough look Tibby cultivates, on the theory that people expect less of a girl who seems not to care.
Q 28Where does Bridget Vreeland choose to sleep at her camp in Mexico instead of in the cabins?
On the beach
On the beach is where Bridget beds down from the start of camp, talking her new friends into a sleepover on the sand.
Q 29Which actress plays shy Lena Kaligaris in the film version of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants?
Alexis Bledel
Alexis Bledel plays Lena in a film that earned about $42 million worldwide, and all four leads came back for a sequel.
Q 30Which homework of her stepsister-to-be Krista does Carmen Lowell secretly finish one bored evening?
Geometry
Geometry is Carmen's strong suit, and at first she refuses to help Krista out of spite. Paul catches her finishing it and keeps her secret.