Mike Bonnet 

The best girls in fiction – quiz

International Women's Day falls this week, so we thought we'd highlight some of the best female characters in literature
  
  


  1. How many children does the widowed Mrs Frisby raise in the story Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH?

    1. 3

    2. 4

    3. 5

    4. 6

  2. What nationality was Astrid Lindgren, the author of the Pippi Longstocking books?

    1. Swedish

    2. Danish

    3. Finnish

    4. Norwegian

  3. The main characters in Sharon Creech's 2002 novel Ruby Holler are the Carter twins who were named after the tourist pamphlets from the box they were abandoned in. The boy is called Dallas, what is his twin sister called?

    1. Georgia

    2. Florida

    3. Nevada

    4. Dakota

  4. In Roald Dahl's Matilda what is the first name of Matilda's teacher Miss Honey?

    1. Amy

    2. Kelly

    3. Lucy

    4. Jenny

  5. In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, which Oxford college does the Lyra Belacqua grow up in?

    1. Foxe College

    2. Gabriel College

    3. Jordan College

    4. St Sophia's College

  6. What is the name of Katniss Everdeen's younger sister in The Hunger Games trilogy?

    1. Poppy

    2. Primrose

    3. Heather

    4. Blossom

  7. What is the catchphrase used by Clarice Bean and her best friend Betty Moody in Lauren Child's Clarice Bean novels?

    1. There's no place like home

    2. Two rights don't equal a left

    3. Would you rather

    4. Don't look now

  8. Winner of The Guardian Award in 2004 Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now tells the story of Daisy, a 15 year old, who flees which city to come and live on an English Farm?

    1. New York

    2. Paris

    3. London

    4. Los Angeles

  9. What was the preferred colour cardigan of the evil Harry Potter Professor Dolores Umbridge

    1. Turquoise

    2. Pink

    3. Orange

    4. Yellow

  10. In the Story of Tracey Beaker what is the nickname given to the care home that Tracey lives in?

    1. Camp Green Lake

    2. Malory Towers

    3. The Dumping Ground

    4. Zakyna

Solutions

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

Scores

  1. 0 and above.

    Come on you can do better than that!

  2. 6 and above.

    Good, but why not have a look around <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site"> the site </a> and have another go.

  3. 9 and above.

    Congratulations! You really know your Miss Honey's from your Miss Trunchbull's.

 

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