Wayside School Is Falling Down
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40 free Wayside School is Falling Down trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Louis Sachar's second trip to the thirtieth story of Wayside School is stranger than the first. Each of its thirty chapters is a small joke that stands alone, yet threads run through the whole book: a shy new boy who cannot get anyone to use his real name, a classroom that should not exist, and a storm that brings everything to a noisy end. This quiz works through the book the way a class reading group would. It asks what happens to Mrs. Jewls's students chapter by chapter, who did what, how each odd problem is solved, and a little about the author and the series around the book. It suits children reading the book at school or at home, teachers and parents who want a quick comprehension check, and grown-ups testing how much of Mrs. Jewls's class they still remember.
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Q 01In Wayside School Is Falling Down, what is in the heavy package Louis carries up to Mrs. Jewls's class?
A computer
A computer is in the box, and Mrs. Jewls pushes it straight out of the window to show her class how gravity works.
Q 02In Wayside School Is Falling Down, what name does the class wrongly call new student Benjamin Nushmutt?
Mark Miller
Mark Miller is the name everyone uses, and Benjamin is too shy to correct them, so he starts to think it suits him better than his own.
Q 03At the end of Wayside School Is Falling Down, which animals fill the building and force it to close?
Cows
Cows pour into the school after Mrs. Jewls rings her cowbell so hard during a storm that the sound carries to a whole herd.
Q 04In Wayside School Is Falling Down, what picture does Calvin choose for the birthday tattoo on his ankle?
A potato
A potato is his pick, and although nobody else approves, Calvin decides he is the one who has to live with it.
Q 05In Wayside School Is Falling Down, what does Mrs. Jewls say Stephen must wear if he wants to look important?
Expensive underpants
Expensive underpants is her answer, because she tells him that it is what a person wears underneath that really counts.
Q 06In Wayside School Is Falling Down, what does Dameon leave in Mrs. Jewls's desk to prove he doesn't love her?
A dead rat
A dead rat goes into the desk on a dare, yet Mrs. Jewls forgives him and says love is the one thing she has more of after giving it away.
Q 07Miss Zarves teaches on which story of Wayside School, the one the builder is said to have left out?
The nineteenth
The nineteenth story does not exist, so the three chapters set there all carry the same chapter number instead of counting upwards.
Q 08How does Mrs. Jewls stop Jason from chewing pencils in Wayside School Is Falling Down?
She tapes his mouth shut
She tapes his mouth shut, then likes the quiet so much that she wonders about doing the same to the whole class.
Q 09What is unusual about the chapter of Wayside School Is Falling Down in which Jenny arrives late to class?
It is written backwards
It is written backwards, matching the plot, in which Mrs. Jewls tells Jenny to read a story in reverse after she misses its beginning.
Q 10Which cafeteria lunch special at Wayside School makes Ron kiss a classmate after a single bite?
Mushroom Surprise
Mushroom Surprise had been the special for eighteen days running before Ron dared to try it, and he has no memory of the kiss afterwards.
Q 11In Wayside School Is Falling Down, what does Paul hold on to when he is hauled back in through the window?
Leslie's pigtails
Leslie's pigtails save his life, which amuses Paul because for once the hair he always longs to tug has pulled him instead.
Q 12Three mysterious men in the basement of Wayside School tell Myron to choose between safety and what?
Freedom
Freedom is what Myron picks, so back in class he simply refuses to take a test, since nobody can make him any more.
Q 13In Wayside School Is Falling Down, Todd's toy dog can transform into which fierce animal that bites a classmate?
A wolf
A wolf is the toy's hidden second form, which a classmate who tries to use the toy for herself discovers when it bites her finger.
Q 21The title of Wayside School Is Falling Down comes from the favorite song of which student in Mrs. Jewls's class?
Kathy
Kathy sings it to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down, which suits a girl known for disliking everybody she meets.
Q 22In Wayside School Is Falling Down, where does Mac finally find the single sock he lost?
In his refrigerator
In his refrigerator, as Mac tells the class in a rambling story that derails Mrs. Jewls's lesson on fractions.
Q 23In Wayside School Is Falling Down, which scientist does Bob the hobo say never wore socks either?
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein is his example, and the class is so impressed that everyone takes off their socks before the weekly spelling test.
Q 14In Wayside School Is Falling Down, which former teacher do the students keep claiming to spot around the playground?
Mrs. Gorf
Mrs. Gorf is the feared teacher from the first book, who turned children into apples until a mirror turned the spell back on her.
Q 15Which student in Wayside School Is Falling Down falls on the stairs and ends up in Miss Zarves's classroom?
Allison
Allison slowly forgets where she came from while she is there, and only gets away by copying her old classmates' most annoying habits.
Q 16In Wayside School Is Falling Down, Mr. Kidswatter questions three students who all share which first name?
Eric
Eric is the name shared by Fry, Bacon and Ovens, which is why their single chapter is numbered 20, 21 and 22 all at once.
Q 17In Wayside School Is Falling Down, what punishment does Mrs. Jewls accept after a mean voice takes over her teaching?
Going home early
Going home early on the kindergarten bus is the penalty she gives herself, the same one she hands any pupil who misbehaves three times.
Q 18Louis Sachar, author of Wayside School Is Falling Down, later won the Newbery Medal for which novel?
Holes
Holes won the Newbery Medal in 1999, and Sachar wrote the screenplay himself when Disney turned it into a film four years later.
Q 19Mrs. Jewls and her thirtieth-story class first appeared in which earlier Louis Sachar book?
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Sideways Stories from Wayside School came out in 1978, eleven years before the sequel, and also holds exactly thirty tales.
Q 20What job does Louis do at Wayside School, a job author Louis Sachar once held at a real school?
Yard teacher
Yard teacher was Sachar's own role as a college student, supervising lunchtime at Hillside Elementary, where the pupils knew him as Louis.
Q 24Which student in Wayside School Is Falling Down brings a hobo to class for show-and-tell?
Sharie
Sharie is the tiny girl in the huge coat who usually sleeps through lessons, and Mrs. Jewls believes she learns best that way.
Q 25In Wayside School Is Falling Down, Bebe blames rude homework notes on a made-up little brother called what?
Ray
Ray Gunn is exposed as a fib when Mrs. Jewls rings up to complain and Bebe's mother asks who he is.
Q 26In Wayside School Is Falling Down, a substitute teacher reveals her first name is Benjamin; what is her surname?
Franklin
Franklin is her surname, and the students, who had all pretended to be called Benjamin as a prank, no longer know what to believe.
Q 27In music class at Wayside School, what do pupils do whenever Benjamin Nushmutt is asked to speak up?
Play their instruments louder
They play their instruments louder each time, so Benjamin gives up and decides his mistaken name makes better music anyway.
Q 28In Wayside School Is Falling Down, why is D.J. so upset about losing his watch?
A bird might choke on it
A bird might choke on it, he worries, which baffles the classmate who had been teasing him to make him feel worse.
Q 29In Wayside School Is Falling Down, which breakfast drink does Jenny hate but reluctantly swallow before school?
Prune juice
Prune juice is the drink she detests, and by the end of her chapter it has come back up again.
Q 30In Wayside School Is Falling Down, Rondi keeps her new front teeth because they help her eat which food?
Carrots
Carrots settle it after a class vote on the teeth ends in a tie, and she ducks just in time to dodge a punch aimed at them.