Q 01/05

In which year was the novel published?

A) 1974

B) 2001

C) 1993

D) 1988

Answer · why

D) 1988

Jonathan Cape published it, two years before the author's death.

Q 02/05

Which publisher brought out the original book?

A) Faber and Faber

B) Puffin Books

C) Hodder and Stoughton

D) Jonathan Cape

Answer · why

D) Jonathan Cape

Its author had been with the same London house for most of his children's titles.

Q 03/05

What is the heroine's surname?

A) Trunchbull

B) Wormwood

C) Bogtrotter

D) Honeycutt

Answer · why

B) Wormwood

Her parents are a crooked used-car salesman and a woman who thinks cleverness is unattractive in a girl.

Q 04/05

At what age could the heroine read, according to the book?

A) Five years old

B) Two years old

C) Six years old

D) Three and a half

Answer · why

D) Three and a half

By four and a quarter she had cleared the children's shelves at the library and moved on to Dickens and Steinbeck.

Q 05/05

Which two grown-up classics does she read as a small child?

A) Ulysses and Middlemarch

B) Jane Eyre and Moby-Dick

C) Animal Farm and The Grapes of Wrath

D) Wuthering Heights and Emma

Answer · why

C) Animal Farm and The Grapes of Wrath

She works through the entire children's section first, then starts on the adult shelves.