Q 01/05

In The Giver, 12-year-old Jonas is selected to become the community's what?

A) Receiver of Memory

B) Keeper of Records

C) Chief Elder

D) Speaker of Rules

Answer · why

A) Receiver of Memory

Jonas is chosen as the Receiver of Memory at the Ceremony of Twelve, inheriting from the Giver every memory of the time before Sameness, including col...

Q 02/05

Who wrote The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner?

A) Madeleine L'Engle

B) Katherine Paterson

C) Sharon Creech

D) Lois Lowry

Answer · why

D) Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry won the 1994 Newbery Medal for The Giver, her second after Number the Stars in 1990; the book became one of the most frequently challenged ...

Q 03/05

In Hatchet, what happens to the pilot that strands Brian Robeson in the Canadian wilderness?

A) He bails out with a parachute

B) He falls asleep

C) He has a heart attack

D) He is struck by lightning

Answer · why

C) He has a heart attack

The pilot has a heart attack mid-flight and dies, and Brian crash-lands the Cessna in an L-shaped lake with only his windbreaker and a hatchet.

Q 04/05

Who gave Brian the hatchet he survives with in Hatchet?

A) His father

B) His mother

C) His grandfather

D) The pilot

Answer · why

B) His mother

He learns to make fire with it and eats everything from turtle eggs to the grouse he calls fool-birds.

Q 05/05

In Holes, where is Stanley Yelnats sent to dig after being wrongly convicted of theft?

A) Camp Dry Gulch

B) Camp Green Lake

C) Camp Sunny Acres

D) Camp Redwood

Answer · why

B) Camp Green Lake

Stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake, a Texas juvenile detention camp where there has been no lake for over a hundred years; the boys dig a hole a day i...