From Charlotte’s Web to Stig of the Dump – A Puffin Book quiz

Know your Tarka from your Wilbur? Test your skills in a quiz to celebrate the republishing of 20 timeless Puffin Book classics from Watership Down to Charlotte's Web
  
  


  1. Thomas Meehan’s Annie is based on the musical of the same name. Which of these is not a hit song from the musical?

    1. Tomorrow

    2. Hard Knock Life

    3. My Dog Sandy

    4. Maybe

  2. Charlotte’s Web tells the story of Wilbur the pig’s friendship with clever barn spider Charlotte. What is the first thing Charlotte writes in her web?

    1. Go, Wilbur!

    2. Some pig

    3. Radiant

    4. Humble

  3. In Mary Norton’s The Borrowers, Pod, Homily and Arrietty live under the floorboards hiding from the ‘human beans’. How tall are they?

    1. 5 mm

    2. 25 cm

    3. 10 cm

    4. 15 cm

  4. In Richard Adams’s Watership Down, a band of rabbits journeys across the countryside searching for a new warren. Which of these characters is not part of the group?

    1. Hazel

    2. Fiver

    3. Peter

    4. Bigwig

  5. Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat by Ursula Moray Williams tells the story of a reluctant witch’s cat, but what does ‘Gobbolino’ mean in Italian?

    1. Little hunchback

    2. Tiny kitten

    3. Greedy animal

    4. The smallest

  6. What is the name of Eve Garnett’s famous family living at One End Street?

    1. The Smiths

    2. The Buckets

    3. The Muggles

    4. The Ruggles

  7. Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson has never been out of print since it was first published, but in which year was this?

    1. 1927

    2. 1910

    3. 1932

    4. 1930

  8. Stig of the Dump is set where Clive King grew up in Ash, Kent – where did Clive imagine Stig’s den to be?

    1. In a burrow

    2. In a chalk pit

    3. Under a marsh

    4. Hidden in a wood

  9. In Robert O’Brien’s Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, what is the name of the troublesome cat?

    1. Tiger

    2. Nicodemus

    3. Dragon

    4. Rascal

  10. What is the name of village to which William ‘Willie’ Beech is evacuated in Michelle Magorian’s Goodnight Mister Tom?

    1. Little Whinging

    2. Little Westeros

    3. Little Wenlock

    4. Little Weirwold

Solutions

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

Scores

  1. 4 and above.

    Looks like you've got some reading to do this summer!

  2. 8 and above.

    Good, but not quite perfect. Have another go?

  3. 10 and above.

    Wow. You really DO know your Puffin classics. Gold star!

 

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