1. How old was SE Hinton when she published her first novel, The Outsiders, in 1967?

   1. 18

   2. 15

   3. 21

   4. 32

2. Who of these isn't a member of the Greaser gang in The Outsiders?

   1. John-Boy

   2. Ponyboy

   3. Sodapop

   4. Two-bit

3. Which rebel without a cause says: "It's a bit of a burden to be Robin Hood, Jesse James, and the Pied Piper" in SE Hinton's Rumble Fish?

   1. Rusty-James

   2. The Motorcycle Boy

   3. Biff Willcox

   4. John Bender

4. Caitlin Moran wrote her first novel about an unruly home-schooled family, at the age of 16. What was it called?

   1. The Chronicles of Narmo

   2. The Lion, the Bitch and the Wardrobe

   3. Princess Cassie

   4. How to be a Magician

5. Who wrote at the age of 16: "I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer."

   1. Jean Genet

   2. Oscar Wilde

   3. Arthur Rimbaud

   4. Michel Houllebecq

6. What is the real name of Julie Burchill's character Sugar, in her novel Sugar Rush?

   1. Holly Saccharine

   2. Maria Sweet

   3. Coco Porter

   4. Candy Richards

7. The Catcher in the Rye is teenager Holden Caulfield’s alienated mishearing of the title of a poem by which author?

   1. Allen Ginsberg

   2. William Wordsworth

   3. Robert Burns

   4. Andrew Motion

8. In the Hunger Games trilogy, which bird is used as a symbol of Katniss Everdeen's rebellion?

   1. A robin

   2. A phoenix

   3. A peacock

   4. A mockingjay

9. Which of these is a theme of a party attended by the characters in Bret Easton Ellis’s novel The Rules of Attraction?

   1. "Dressed to Get Screwed"

   2. "The Bible"

   3. "ABC - Anything but Clothes"

   4. "Seven Deadly Sins"

10. The friend of Vernon God Little in DBC’s eponymous novel who murders his classmates in the schoolyard is called:

    1. Syd Arthur

    2. Louis Cypher

    3. Jesus Navarro

    4. Ishmael Abraham

Solutions

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

Scores

1. 3 and above.

   Bad! You should spend more time reading about these characters than acting like them. But you never listen, do you?

2. 6 and above.

   Cleverly played – not a bad score, but nothing so spectacular as to have you accused of being a goody-two-shoes.

3. 8 and above.

   An excellent score – you have defied our low expectations