Q 01/05

In The Absolutely True Diary, whose name is written inside Junior's decades-old geometry textbook?

A) His father's

B) His grandmother's

C) His mother's

D) His sister's

Answer · why

C) His mother's

His mother's name, Agnes Adams, is written inside, proof that his school has used the same books for at least thirty years. Enraged, Junior throws it.

Q 02/05

In The Absolutely True Diary, why does Junior's dad shoot Oscar, the sick family dog?

A) A vet cost too much

B) Oscar bit a neighbor

C) Oscar had rabies

D) Tribal police ordered it

Answer · why

A) A vet cost too much

A vet cost too much, and a bullet was cheaper. Junior calls Oscar the only living thing he could depend on; he runs away but still hears the rifle.

Q 03/05

In The Absolutely True Diary, who do Junior's mom and dad both say has the most hope?

A) Rich people

B) Young people

C) City people

D) White people

Answer · why

D) White people

White people, they answer at the same time. Junior promptly announces that he wants to transfer to Reardan, the rich farm-town school twenty-two miles...

Q 04/05

In The Absolutely True Diary, who is the only other Indian at Reardan High when Junior enrolls?

A) The night janitor

B) The school mascot

C) The gym teacher

D) The bus driver

Answer · why

B) The school mascot

The school mascot is an Indian, so on his first morning the other kids stare at Junior, he says, like he was Bigfoot or a UFO.

Q 05/05

In The Absolutely True Diary, what does Junior's grandmother say last after a drunk driver hits her?

A) Take me home

B) Don't drink

C) Forgive him

D) Stay together

Answer · why

C) Forgive him

Forgive him, she says of Gerald, the driver who struck her as she came home from a powwow. She had never had a drink in her life.