Q 01/05

Which British novelist, already famous for the adult bestseller The L-Shaped Room, wrote The Indian in the Cupboard?

A) Mary Norton

B) Lynne Reid Banks

C) Diana Wynne Jones

D) Penelope Lively

Answer · why

B) Lynne Reid Banks

Lynne Reid Banks has sold more than 15 million copies of her tale about a boy and a living plastic figure. Four sequels followed over the next 18 year...

Q 02/05

Little Bear, the tiny man Omri brings to life in The Indian in the Cupboard, belongs to which nation?

A) Cheyenne

B) Apache

C) Comanche

D) Iroquois

Answer · why

D) Iroquois

Iroquois is the nation of the three-inch-tall Little Bear, an 18th-century fighter who soon starts bossing his giant host around. Some editions call h...

Q 03/05

The magic key in The Indian in the Cupboard once locked which belonging of Omri's great-grandmother?

A) A tea caddy

B) A jewelry box

C) A music box

D) A grandfather clock

Answer · why

B) A jewelry box

A jewelry box belonging to Omri's great-grandmother supplied the only key in the house that fitted the cupboard. In the sequel the same key works its ...

Q 04/05

Omri, the boy hero of The Indian in the Cupboard, shares his name with which member of the author's family?

A) Her sculptor husband

B) Her Scottish father

C) Her youngest son

D) Her favourite uncle

Answer · why

C) Her youngest son

Her youngest son, Omri, is the child the author created the book for and dedicated it to. An older boy of hers, Gillon, also lent his name to a charac...

Q 05/05

In The Indian in the Cupboard, what is on television when Little Bear shoots Boone with an arrow?

A) An old Western

B) A boxing match

C) A space cartoon

D) A pirate adventure

Answer · why

A) An old Western

An old Western showing the slaughter of Native Americans has Boone cheering, and Little Bear answers by hitting the cowboy in the chest. Guilt strikes...