Q 01/05

Gordon Korman wrote his first published novel as an English class assignment in which school year?

A) Fourth grade

B) Seventh grade

C) Tenth grade

D) Twelfth grade

Answer · why

B) Seventh grade

Seventh grade is when the assignment turned into This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall. Scholastic published it when he was 14.

Q 02/05

Gordon Korman's first novel began in an English class taught by which unlikely staff member?

A) The track coach

B) The school librarian

C) The band director

D) The shop teacher

Answer · why

A) The track coach

The track coach had to cover English and let the class write whatever it wanted for more than four months, long enough for Korman to finish a whole bo...

Q 03/05

Who typed up the manuscript of Gordon Korman's first novel before it was mailed off to Scholastic?

A) His English teacher

B) A school secretary

C) His mother

D) His big sister

Answer · why

C) His mother

His mother had to type the book for him. Scholastic published it when he was a high school freshman.

Q 04/05

Gordon Korman says his first novel, a school assignment, earned which mark because of its messiness?

A) D-minus

B) C-plus

C) A-minus

D) B-plus

Answer · why

D) B-plus

B-plus was all the future bestseller earned. Korman calls himself a so-so student who was lazy, not short of ability.

Q 05/05

As a toddler, Gordon Korman reportedly ate dinner under the table because he wanted to become what?

A) A dog

B) A horse

C) A bear

D) A lion

Answer · why

A) A dog

A dog was his career plan at age two, as his parents later told him. He never had one as a pet while growing up.