Q 01/05

In the novel Monument 14, which chain superstore becomes home to fourteen students stranded by a run of disasters?

A) Greenway

B) Sam's Club

C) Walmart

D) Kmart

Answer · why

A) Greenway

Greenway is a fictional big-box chain, and its local branch shelters the kids for twelve days. They raid the aisles for food, sleeping bags and medici...

Q 02/05

In Monument 14, what freak weather wrecks Dean's school bus and kills its driver on the way to class?

A) A tornado

B) A blizzard

C) A flash flood

D) A hailstorm

Answer · why

D) A hailstorm

A hailstorm dents the roof, cracks the windshield and tips the high-school bus onto its side in a store car park. The storm is a knock-on effect of a ...

Q 03/05

Which Monument 14 bus driver rams through a store's glass doors, then goes back to rescue the older students?

A) Mr. Reed

B) Mrs. Wooly

C) Mr. Appleton

D) Mrs. McKinley

Answer · why

B) Mrs. Wooly

Mrs. Wooly then sets out on foot for the hospital to fetch help, leaving the teenagers in charge, and never comes back.

Q 04/05

In Monument 14, people with which blood group fly into a murderous rage when they breathe the leaked chemicals?

A) Type A

B) Type B

C) Type AB

D) Type O

Answer · why

D) Type O

Type O is narrator Dean's own blood group, so a few breaths of the tainted air make him attack his friends. The fury fades once he is back indoors and...

Q 05/05

In Monument 14, what does a volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands unleash on the East Coast of America?

A) A megatsunami

B) A toxic ash cloud

C) A superstorm

D) A firestorm

Answer · why

A) A megatsunami

A megatsunami half a mile tall swamps the Atlantic seaboard before dawn, and the freak weather over the Rockies follows from it. Geologists have model...