Emma Welton 

Amazing monsters in fiction – quiz

Are you a geek about freaks? As we ask you to draw your own crazy creatures to win some monstrous prizes, test your knowledge of these amazing monsters with our quiz
  
  


  1. In which Scooby Doo book by James Gelsey does a monster made of ice kidnap a member of the gang and take over a town?

    1. The Big Bad Blizzard

    2. The Frozen Giant

    3. A Merry Scary Holiday

    4. Snow Monster Scare

  2. Which horror story by Neil Gaiman features monsters stuck inside the walls?

    1. The Wolves in the Walls

    2. The Trolls in the Walls

    3. The Ghouls in the Walls

    4. The Wild Hog in the Walls

  3. What does author Michelle Paver call the monsters in Wolf Brother that Torak is trying to defeat?

    1. The Body Wranglers

    2. The Mind Munchers

    3. The Spirit Snatchers

    4. The Soul Eaters

  4. How many books in the Goosebumps series by RL Stine have been published to date?

    1. 77

    2. 177

    3. 666

    4. 777

  5. Who invents the monstrous anti-virus serum in Darren Shan’s Zom-B books?

    1. Doctor Oyster

    2. Doctor Oystein

    3. Doctor Springsteen

    4. Doctor Oyspring

  6. In Chris Wooding’s book Silver, what kind of animal bites a boy which leads to the spreading of a monstrous virus which turns flesh into metal?

    1. A mosquito

    2. An ant

    3. A beetle

    4. A snake

  7. In Marcus Sedgwick’s Fright Forest, whose footprint do Raven Boy and Elf Girl sit in?

    1. The troll’s

    2. The ogre’s

    3. The killer kittens’

    4. The abominable snowman's

  8. Which man-eating monster with “eyes of flame” features in a poem in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass?

    1. The jabberwocky

    2. The snark

    3. The bandersnatch

    4. The gryphon

  9. What is the name of the shape-shifting monster in the Harry Potter series which takes the shape of the person’s worst fears?

    1. Boggart

    2. Dementor

    3. Erkling

    4. Grindylow

  10. What town does the young Frankenstein in Elizabeth Rudnick’s Frankenweenie live in?

    1. New Morocco

    2. New Sweden

    3. New Denmark

    4. New Holland

Solutions

1:B, 2:A, 3:D, 4:B, 5:B, 6:C, 7:B, 8:A, 9:A, 10:D

Scores

  1. 4 and above.

    Don't let the quiz snatch your spirit - try again!

  2. 7 and above.

    Bandersnatch got your tongue? Give it another go!

  3. 10 and above.

    Well done! You're blood-curdling-ly brilliant!

 

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