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

He inherits every memory of the time before Sameness, including colour, snow and pain.

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

She won a second Newbery for it four years after her first, and it became one of the most challenged books in American schools.

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

Brian crash-lands 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

There has been no lake there for over a hundred years, which is rather the point of the digging.