Tuesdays with Morrie
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50 free Tuesdays with Morrie trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Tuesdays with Morrie began as a small project: a sportswriter flying to Massachusetts every week to sit with the professor who had once believed in him, and who was now dying. Mitch Albom's 1997 memoir of those visits spent more than four years on the New York Times bestseller list and has been widely taught in schools and colleges, which is why so many readers go looking for a quiz once they reach the end. This quiz follows the book the way a reading check would. It covers the fourteen Tuesdays and the subjects the two men talked through, Morrie's most quoted lines, the flashbacks to his poor New York childhood and to Mitch's college years, and the people who pass through the house in West Newton. A few questions step outside the book to the real Morrie Schwartz, the television coverage that made him known, and the screen version that followed. It suits students revising for a class test, book clubs that want a friendly way to compare notes, and anyone who finished the final page and wants to see how much stayed with them. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a miss still tells you something new about the book.
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Q 01Mitch Albom conceived Tuesdays with Morrie as a way to pay off which of his old professor's debts?
Medical bills
Medical bills were mounting because Morrie wanted to die at home rather than in a hospital, and the publisher's advance went toward the cost of his care.
Q 02Which TV news program's interviews with Morrie Schwartz led Mitch Albom to seek out his old professor?
Nightline
Nightline ran three interviews with Morrie during 1995, and when its longtime anchor retired in 2005 he replayed them instead of a career highlights reel.
Q 03Which TV interviewer did Morrie quiz about his faith and call a narcissist before agreeing to appear?
Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel laughed at the verdict, got his interview and came back twice more, greeting Morrie with a kiss on the last visit.
Q 04Which illness, which he knows will finally stop his breathing, is Morrie Schwartz dying of?
ALS
ALS kills the nerve cells that control the muscles, and Morrie was diagnosed in August 1994, about fifteen months before his death.
Q 05At which school near Boston did Morrie teach for three decades, with Mitch Albom among his students?
Brandeis University
Brandeis University hired Morrie in the late 1950s, and Mitch Albom took every class he offered there before graduating in 1979.
Q 06Which plant in the study window does Morrie watch through his final months in Tuesdays with Morrie?
A hibiscus
A hibiscus appears in the book's first paragraph, shedding its pink leaves, and Morrie later asks Mitch to hold it up while he talks about dying being natural.
Q 07What freed sportswriter Mitch Albom to fly to Massachusetts every Tuesday in Morrie's final months?
A union strike
A union strike hit his newspaper in July 1995 and was not called off until 1997, so with no column to file Mitch Albom phoned his old professor and asked to come back.
Q 08What did Mitch Albom start bringing to Morrie's house on the third Tuesday, preserving their talks?
A tape recorder
A tape recorder let Mitch keep Morrie's voice for later, and clips from those tapes can be heard on the audiobook he narrates.
Q 09After a colleague died without hearing his tributes, what gathering did Morrie hold for himself?
A living funeral
A living funeral let Morrie hear every tribute while he could still answer back, and one guest read a poem that called him a "tender sequoia".
Q 10Which talk-show host promoted Tuesdays with Morrie on air, then produced the TV film of the memoir?
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey gave the book a brief spot on her show that pushed it onto the bestseller list, then lobbied for the film rights and made it through Harpo Films.
Q 11Which Yankees great's "luckiest man" farewell speech does Mitch Albom imitate for the dying Morrie?
Lou Gehrig
Lou Gehrig called himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth in 1939; Morrie hears the line, nods and replies that he never said that himself.
Q 12Which Hollywood veteran won an Emmy playing Morrie Schwartz, in what proved his final television role?
Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the very city where the real Morrie lived and died, and the film around him was named Outstanding Television Movie.
Q 13Which subject did Morrie Schwartz teach, in a department that sent students to civil rights projects?
Sociology
Q 21On the thirteenth Tuesday, what does Morrie say death cannot end, even as it ends a life?
A relationship
A relationship outlasts a life, Morrie argues: unlike plants and animals, he says, people stay alive in the hearts of those they loved.
Q 22Which favorite poet of Morrie's wrote the line about love that he repeats as a motto?
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden wrote it in the poem September 1, 1939; he later dropped that stanza from his collected poems and said he loathed the poem.
Q 23What nickname did Mitch Albom give his professor Morrie Schwartz during his college years?
Coach
Coach stuck for life, and Morrie called Mitch his player in return; after Morrie died, Mitch found an old college paper with notes the two had scribbled to each other under those names.
Sociology was Mitch Albom's own degree subject, earned after Morrie talked him into a 112-page honors thesis on football as an American ritual.
Q 14In which Midwestern city was Mitch Albom a sports columnist when he found Morrie again?
Detroit
Detroit became the New Jersey native's adopted home, and he later founded a group of charities there called SAY Detroit.
Q 15In Morrie's best-known saying, what does a person learn once they have learned how to die?
How to live
How to live is the other half of the saying, which Morrie repeats for emphasis: facing the end pulls a person out of the haze of everyday distractions.
Q 16Which famous scientist does Morrie Schwartz discuss in his final television interview?
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking had the same illness and by then spoke through a computer; Morrie called that admirable but said he would know it was time to go once he could no longer respond to people.
Q 17Whose televised murder trial runs through Tuesdays with Morrie, ending on the eleventh Tuesday?
O. J. Simpson
O. J. Simpson is found not guilty while Mitch watches on a bedroom television with Morrie's aide Connie, who shrieks at the verdict and walks out.
Q 18Which biblical sufferer does Mitch Albom ask Morrie about, drawing the reply that God "overdid it"?
Job
Job loses his wealth, his children and his health in a test of faith; asked what he makes of that, Morrie coughs, smiles and says he thinks God overdid it.
Q 19What did Mitch Albom carry to Morrie's house every Tuesday, even after Morrie could no longer enjoy it?
Bags of food
Bags of food from Morrie's favorite deli kept coming even after his wife showed Mitch a fridge full of untouched containers; by then it had become a tradition.
Q 20Morrie promises to show Mitch it is okay to do what, which finally happens at their last goodbye?
Cry
Cry is what Mitch finally does as he pulls away from their last embrace, and Morrie raises his eyebrows at the sight, a small win for the professor.
Q 24Which phrase did Morrie Schwartz tell Mitch Albom he wanted carved on his tombstone?
A Teacher to the Last
A Teacher to the Last was the phrase Morrie announced on the ninth Tuesday, and Mitch agreed it was the perfect one for the stone.
Q 25What does Mitch Albom name as the subject of his old professor's last class in Tuesdays with Morrie?
The Meaning of Life
The Meaning of Life was taught from experience, in a class that met on Tuesdays after breakfast, required no books and had exactly one student.
Q 26Which sporting event was Mitch Albom covering abroad soon after his first visit to the dying Morrie?
Wimbledon
Wimbledon usually had Mitch devouring the British tabloids, but that year he found himself envying the quality of Morrie's days instead.
Q 27Asked what he would come back as if reincarnated, which graceful animal does Morrie Schwartz choose?
A gazelle
A gazelle appealed because it is graceful and fast; looking at Morrie's shrunken, immobile body, Mitch tells him the choice is not strange at all.
Q 28Which religion gave Morrie the image of a bird on the shoulder asking if today is the day?
Buddhism
Buddhism was one of several faiths Morrie drew on: born Jewish, he turned agnostic in his teens and built his own outlook from more than one tradition.
Q 29Which actor won a supporting Emmy as Mitch Albom in the TV film of Tuesdays with Morrie?
Hank Azaria
Hank Azaria said this part and a later Holocaust drama, Uprising, left him in a depressive state, which he countered by watching Monty Python DVDs.
Q 30Which beloved pastime did Morrie Schwartz have to give up, the day he knew something bad was coming?
Dancing
Dancing had been a weekly ritual: Morrie went to a church's Wednesday "Dance Free" nights and moved to any music, careless of how he looked.