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50 free Wonder (R.J. Palacio) trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Wonder follows Auggie Pullman, a ten-year-old with a facial difference, through his first year in a mainstream school, and it tells that year from several points of view, so readers end up knowing the bullies and the bystanders as well as the boy in the helmet. That structure, plus a teacher who hands out a precept at a time, is why the book became a classroom staple and a movement. These 50 questions cover the novel and the 2017 film together: the Halloween that goes wrong, the school play, the family dog, the graduation medal, the actors who played Auggie's family and teachers, the box office and awards, and the companion books that spun out of the original, including the graphic novel about Julian's grandmother. It suits anyone who has read the book in class, parents who watched the film with their kids, and teachers looking for a quick end-of-unit check. Mixed difficulty: most questions are for anyone who knows the story, with a handful for completists.
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Q 01Which genetic condition, named for an English eye surgeon who described it in 1900, does Auggie Pullman have in Wonder?
Treacher Collins
Treacher Collins syndrome affects the ears, eyes, cheekbones and chin, and most cases come from a new mutation rather than a parent. Edward Treacher Collins was an ophthalmologist.
Q 02In Wonder, Auggie's school and graduation medal honor Henry Ward Beecher, whose sister wrote which abolitionist novel?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin made Harriet Beecher Stowe world-famous, while her brother Henry raised money to buy enslaved people their freedom and shipped rifles nicknamed 'Beecher's Bibles' to Kansas.
Q 03Which Erin Brockovich Oscar winner plays Auggie's mother, the parent who homeschooled him, in the 2017 film Wonder?
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts was confirmed within weeks of entering talks in April 2016, the same day the film's director was set.
Q 04Which Frat Pack actor, the voice of Lightning McQueen, plays Auggie's father in the 2017 film Wonder?
Owen Wilson
Owen Wilson joined the cast in June 2016, playing a dad who quietly stows away the headgear his son hides behind.
Q 05Which child actor, who broke out as the boy held captive in Room, plays Auggie in the 2017 film Wonder?
Jacob Tremblay
Jacob Tremblay was cast in April 2016 and later voiced the title character in Pixar's Luca and Flounder in The Little Mermaid.
Q 06Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the 2017 film Wonder which grade on its A+ to F scale?
A+
A+ is CinemaScore's top mark, one of roughly 100 ever awarded when Wonder earned it, and the film's second weekend dropped just 17.7 percent, the word of mouth that grade predicts.
Q 07What is the name of the Pullman family dog in Wonder, whose dying pulls Auggie out of a sulk to say goodbye?
Daisy
Daisy is taken to the vet to be put down just after Auggie overhears Via saying she does not want him at her school play.
Q 08What does Auggie wear in public to hide his face in Wonder, which his father later admits stashing in his office?
Astronaut helmet
Astronaut helmet in hand, Auggie's dad offers it back before graduation, and Auggie happily says he no longer needs it.
Q 09Auggie's older sister in Wonder, starting high school as he starts middle school, goes by Via — short for what?
Olivia
Olivia resents the attention Auggie gets from their parents, yet enjoys a fresh start at a school where nobody knows her brother.
Q 10Which singer's 1995 song about a child born with a congenital disease gave R. J. Palacio's novel Wonder its title?
Natalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant's single reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Palacio has said it helped inspire the book alongside her son's reaction to a girl with a facial difference.
Q 11On which February holiday in 2012 did Knopf first publish R. J. Palacio's debut novel Wonder?
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day 2012 launched a book that sold 5,000,000 copies in the United States in 2017 alone, when its film adaptation arrived.
Q 12Which Star Wars bounty hunter does Jack expect Auggie to dress as on Halloween in Wonder, so fails to recognize him?
Boba Fett
Boba Fett was the plan, but Auggie switched outfits, and an unrecognized Auggie overheard Jack joining Julian's mockery of him.
Q 13Wonder opened in second place at the US box office in November 2017, behind which superhero film?
Justice League
Q 21Which studio released the film Wonder in November 2017, after pushing it back from an April date?
Lionsgate
Lionsgate had announced the adaptation of Palacio's debut novel in November 2012, just nine months after the book came out.
Q 22Besides New York, the 2017 film Wonder shot in which Canadian province, the birthplace of its young lead?
British Columbia
British Columbia hosted filming from July to September 2016, and its star was born in Vancouver in 2006.
Q 23The novel Wonder puts the Pullmans in a fictional Upper Manhattan neighborhood; the film moves them to which borough?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the film's home for Auggie, while the book's North Riverside Heights is invented; Beecher Prep is fictional in both.
Justice League won the weekend, but Wonder had been projected at only $9M before strong previews and group ticket sales tripled expectations.
Q 14Which Hamilton Tony winner, who originated Lafayette and Jefferson, plays English teacher Mr. Browne in the film Wonder?
Daveed Diggs
Daveed Diggs was cast in July 2016, a month after winning the Tony for his dual Hamilton roles, and also fronts the hip hop group Clipping.
Q 15Which actor, famous as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, plays Auggie's school principal in the film Wonder?
Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Patinkin plays Mr. Tushman, the principal who confronts the bully's parents; he also won a Tony as Che in the first Broadway Evita.
Q 16Which author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower directed the 2017 film adaptation of R. J. Palacio's Wonder?
Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky took over after Paul King and John Krokidas were each attached, and went on to direct Dear Evan Hansen in 2021.
Q 17Mr. Browne's September precept in Wonder, about choosing kind over being right, quotes which self-help author?
Wayne Dyer
Wayne Dyer's line became the seed of the Choose Kind movement, and Palacio invited readers to send her their own precepts.
Q 18How often does Mr. Browne give his class a new precept in Wonder, each followed by an essay on its meaning?
Monthly
Monthly precepts run through the school year, and Palacio later expanded the idea into a companion book with one for every day.
Q 19Roughly how much did the 2017 film Wonder gross worldwide against a $20M production budget?
$315 million
$315 million split as $132 million in the United States and Canada and $182 million elsewhere, more than fifteen times its cost.
Q 20The 2017 film Wonder's only Academy Award nomination, at the 90th ceremony, came in which category?
Makeup and Hairstyling
Makeup and Hairstyling recognized Arjen Tuiten, whose facial prosthetics for Auggie were also nominated at the BAFTAs and by the Saturn Awards.
Q 24In the film Wonder, Auggie trick-or-treats as which masked slasher after the family dog ruins his planned costume?
Ghostface
Ghostface was simply last year's outfit, and wearing it means Jack, not knowing who is under the mask, mocks Auggie to his face.
Q 25In the film Wonder, Jack apologizes to Auggie after their falling-out through which video game?
Minecraft
Minecraft carries the apology after Jack has served a two-day suspension for fighting Julian in Auggie's defense.
Q 26In the film Wonder, Auggie's popularity turns after he and Jack win first prize at which school event?
The science fair
The science fair is where Jack chose Auggie over Julian as a partner, the choice that cost him his popular friends.
Q 27Via steps in as understudy for the lead in which Thornton Wilder play at her high school in the film Wonder?
Our Town
Our Town gives Via a standing ovation on opening night, after her estranged best friend fakes illness so Via can go on with her family watching.
Q 28Which friend of Via's, cast as the school play's lead, fakes illness on opening night so Via can perform in Wonder?
Miranda
Miranda had been avoiding Via for reasons Via could not work out, and gives up the part after spotting the Pullman family in the audience.
Q 29What are the first names of Auggie's parents in Wonder, who end his homeschooling by enrolling him in fifth grade?
Isabel and Nate
Isabel and Nate Pullman want their son to experience the world, and in the film Isabel is the one Auggie thanks at graduation.
Q 30Which classmate joins Auggie at lunch on his first day in Wonder, and later hints to Jack why Auggie is upset?
Summer
Summer's hint makes Jack realize his mistake, and his fight with Julian ends with Jack reconciling with Auggie at the cost of his popular friends.