Walk Two Moons
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50 free Walk Two Moons trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons is two stories folded into one. Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle crosses America in her grandparents' car, and to pass the miles she tells them about her friend Phoebe Winterbottom, a girl with a runaway imagination, a mother who vanishes and a stranger at the door. Underneath it all runs Sal's own unanswered question about her mother. The novel is funny, sad and a fixture of school reading lists. This quiz covers the whole book: the Hiddles and the Winterbottoms, the notes left on the porch, the stops along the highway west, Mr. Birkway's English class and the truths that come out in the final chapters. A few questions look at how the novel is built and at its author, including where the title came from. Students can use it to check their reading before a test, and teachers get a ready-made multiple choice set for a novel study. The opening questions are the gentlest and later ones reward close readers. If you are only partway through the book, be warned that some questions give away the ending. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01The proverb that gave Walk Two Moons its title warns against judging a man before walking in his what?
Moccasins
Moccasins complete the saying, which turns up as an anonymous note on Phoebe Winterbottom's porch. By the end, Sal and Gramps make a game of imagining life in other people's shoes.
Q 02The saying behind the title Walk Two Moons reached Sharon Creech on a slip of paper that came from what?
A fortune cookie
A fortune cookie supplied it: Creech rediscovered the little message at the bottom of her purse and began a new draft about a country girl setting out on a long journey.
Q 03In Walk Two Moons, Sal's mother was killed when which vehicle taking her to Lewiston, Idaho, crashed?
A bus
A bus skidded off the steep hill above Lewiston more than a year before Sal's trip, leaving a single passenger alive. Sal cannot fully accept it until she stands at the grave.
Q 04In Walk Two Moons, which fruit reminds Sal so strongly of her mother that she turns down a slice of pie?
Blackberries
Blackberries bring back the times she picked them with her mother on the farm. Sal tells Mrs. Winterbottom she is allergic rather than explain.
Q 05In Walk Two Moons, what bites Gram on the leg while the Hiddles cool off in the Missouri River?
A snake
A snake, a venomous cottonmouth, strikes while a boy with a knife is searching Gramps's clothes for a wallet. The same boy then helps rush Gram to a hospital.
Q 06In Walk Two Moons, what does Sal's grieving father uncover by chipping away a plaster wall in Bybanks?
A fireplace
A fireplace of brick lay behind the plaster, and he later carved Chanhassen's name into its cement. Sal says Phoebe's tale hid her own in just the same way.
Q 07In Walk Two Moons, the stranger Phoebe calls a lunatic turns out to be what relation to Mrs. Winterbottom?
Her son
Her son, Mike, was given up for adoption before she married, and she had never told her husband. She comes home with him, a stylish new haircut and the truth.
Q 08In Walk Two Moons, which Yellowstone sight is Gram so excited to see that she cannot fall asleep?
Old Faithful
Old Faithful delights Gram, who cannot stop smiling as the geyser erupts. It is the last sight she enjoys before falling ill on the drive into Idaho.
Q 09In Walk Two Moons, Phoebe fears her neighbor Mrs. Cadaver partly because the surname is a word for what?
A dead body
A dead body is what a cadaver is, and Phoebe decides the name suits a woman she suspects of murder. Sal half hopes it is true, since her father keeps visiting the house.
Q 10Which top American award for children's literature did Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons win?
Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal went to Walk Two Moons in 1995, the first of Creech's books published in America. She was so surprised that she asked her publisher how many were given out each year.
Q 11In Walk Two Moons, Sal longs to go home to her family's farm at Bybanks, in which state?
Kentucky
Kentucky is home: Bybanks sits on the Ohio River, and Creech modeled it on Quincy, a real town where her relatives had a farm with a barn, a hayloft and a swimming hole.
Q 12In Walk Two Moons, who turns out to have been leaving the mysterious messages on the Winterbottoms' porch?
Mrs. Partridge
Mrs. Partridge, the blind old woman next door, meant them as cheerful surprises for the family. The Winterbottoms had suspected the stranger Phoebe calls a lunatic.
Q 13In Walk Two Moons, how is the English teacher Mr. Birkway related to Sal's neighbor Margaret Cadaver?
Her twin brother
Q 21In Walk Two Moons, what really killed Mr. Cadaver, the husband Phoebe imagines was murdered?
A drunk driver
A drunk driver hit the car, killing him and blinding his mother-in-law, who was riding with him. Mr. Birkway tells Phoebe's family the truth to end her murder theory.
Q 22In Walk Two Moons, how did Sal's father first come to know Margaret Cadaver, the neighbor Sal resents?
She sat beside his wife
She sat beside his wife on the long ride to Idaho and was the lone survivor of the crash, holding her hand at the end. He visited her in hospital and they talked for six hours.
Q 23At dinner in Walk Two Moons, the Winterbottoms serve no meat or butter because they worry about what?
Cholesterol
Her twin brother is the answer to a puzzle Phoebe reads as sinister when the teacher turns up at the house next door. He explains after reading her suspicions aloud in class.
Q 14In Walk Two Moons, how does thirteen-year-old Sal cover the last stretch from Coeur d'Alene to Lewiston?
She drives herself
She drives herself, four tense hours along winding mountain bends in Gramps's car, because he will not leave Gram's side. He had taught her on the farm back in Bybanks.
Q 15In Walk Two Moons, what living present does Ben Finney bring Sal because he knows she misses the farm?
A chicken
A chicken is Ben's gift, already named after the fruit Sal ties to her mother. It arrives on the evening she finally learns how her father met Mrs. Cadaver.
Q 16In Walk Two Moons, Sal's mother, Chanhassen, goes by which nickname drawn from the meaning of her name?
Sugar
Sugar is short for the sweet tree sap her name is said to mean, and it is carved on her gravestone. She longed for people to use Chanhassen instead.
Q 17Sal's parents in Walk Two Moons named her Salamanca after an ancestor's tribe, but which tribe was it really?
Seneca
Seneca was the real name; her parents had misremembered it as Salamanca and only found out after she was named. Boys who want to annoy her turn it into Salamander.
Q 18In Walk Two Moons, where is Phoebe convinced that Mrs. Cadaver has buried her missing husband?
In the backyard
In the backyard, Phoebe insists, after watching her strong neighbor chop down trees. Seeing Mrs. Cadaver dig up a rhododendron with a visitor only feeds the theory.
Q 19In Walk Two Moons, what did Sal's mother keep sending her during the long journey west to Idaho?
Postcards
Postcards kept coming, and the last, from Coeur d'Alene, reached Bybanks two days after the family learned she would never return. Sal has disliked them ever since.
Q 20In Walk Two Moons, what does Gram suffer just before she dies in a hospital in Coeur d'Alene?
A stroke
A stroke leaves Gram unconscious as the car reaches Coeur d'Alene. Gramps refuses to let go of her hand, telling the doctor he has been at her side for fifty-one years.
Cholesterol is the family's fixation, and Phoebe later scolds the Finneys for frying their dinner and eats a bowl of muesli instead. Sal finds the Winterbottoms stiff and oddly silent.
Q 24In Walk Two Moons, what does Mr. Birkway read aloud in class, causing uproar despite changing the names?
Summer journals
Summer journals, set as holiday homework, turn out to be full of frank remarks about classmates. He stops and apologizes after one entry accuses someone close to him of murder.
Q 25In Walk Two Moons, asked to draw their souls, what do Sal and Ben both put inside a circle?
A maple leaf
A maple leaf sits at the centre of both drawings, the only matching pair in the room. The class had just fifteen seconds, too little time to copy anyone.
Q 26In Walk Two Moons, which figure from Greek myth does Phoebe present to the class as a gift, not a curse?
Pandora
Pandora is Phoebe's subject, and she uses the report to attack Ben's talk on Prometheus. Sal is struck that hope was left in the box, and pictures a second box holding one worry.
Q 27In Walk Two Moons, where do Sal and Phoebe finally spot Mrs. Winterbottom sitting with the so-called lunatic?
At a university
At a university in a nearby town, the girls see her on the lawn outside his dormitory and watch her kiss his cheek. Sal bolts, and Phoebe decides her mother no longer needs her.
Q 28In Walk Two Moons, Ben Finney is staying with Mary Lou's family because his mother is living where?
A psychiatric ward
A psychiatric ward is her home for now. Sal finds Ben trailing his mother across the hospital lawn; she seems not to notice Sal, which reminds Sal of her own mother's low days.
Q 29In Walk Two Moons, Sal keeps urging Gramps to hurry so they reach Lewiston in time for what occasion?
Her mother's birthday
Her mother's birthday, the 20th of August, is the deadline Sal sets, giving the car a week to cross the country. She believes arriving on the day could bring her mother home.
Q 30In Walk Two Moons, with whom did Gram once briefly run off before Gramps came to fetch her home?
The egg man
The egg man kept Gram for three days and three nights, until Gramps came and promised to stop swearing. She tells Sal she cannot even remember why she went.