Q 01/05

In The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, where does Carmen Lowell buy the jeans that somehow fit all four friends?

A) A flea market

B) A thrift shop

C) A yard sale

D) A department store

Answer · why

B) A thrift shop

A thrift shop near Georgetown sold her the jeans, which she bought mostly to prove that secondhand stores aren't dirty. She then threw them in her clo...

Q 02/05

Which everyday chore do the rules of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants forbid all summer?

A) Ironing them

B) Folding them

C) Washing them

D) Mending them

Answer · why

C) Washing them

Washing them is banned, so one pair of jeans crosses three countries through a hot summer without a single clean. The same vow limits each girl's turn...

Q 03/05

On which Greek island does Lena Kaligaris spend her summer with her grandparents and younger sister?

A) Santorini

B) Mykonos

C) Kefalonia

D) Zakynthos

Answer · why

A) Santorini

Santorini is where her grandparents live, and Lena arrives unable to speak Greek with a grandfather who has no English. Their silent breakfasts become...

Q 04/05

Which illness does twelve-year-old Bailey have when Tibby Rollins reluctantly befriends her one summer?

A) Cystic fibrosis

B) Lymphoma

C) A heart defect

D) Leukemia

Answer · why

D) Leukemia

Leukemia is what Bailey is fighting, and Tibby only learns of it when Bailey's mother mentions her medicine. Bailey dies before the summer is over.

Q 05/05

How long have the four friends of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants been close before their first summer apart?

A) Since kindergarten

B) Since birth

C) Since middle school

D) Since summer camp

Answer · why

B) Since birth

Since birth is no exaggeration: the four arrived within weeks of one another, to mothers who were friends first. The mothers later drifted apart, whic...