MSJ Book Week Quiz

Question 1

The classic picture book, Where’s Waldo? is considered a

Accepted Answer

participation book

Question 2

Joanna Cole wrote the popular children's picture book series "The Magic School _______?"

Accepted Answer

Bus

Question 3

'The Boy in the Striped Pyjama's' is set during WWI

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

Deborah Elis wrote 'Parvana', a novel that depicts...

Accepted Answer

The oppression of women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule

Question 5

The following dogs appear in the children's book 'Hairy Maclary' (select all that apply)

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Schnitzel Von Crum, Muffin McLay, Bitzer Maloney

Question 6

The theme of 2024's Children's book week is "Reading is........"

Accepted Answer

Magic!

Question 7

Which of Colleen Hoover's novels has recently been adapted into film and released at the cinemas?

Accepted Answer

It Ends with Us

Question 8

Who wrote the novel Frankenstein?

Accepted Answer

Mary Shelley

Question 9

'To Kill a Mockingbird' explores racial prejudices in the Deep South in America

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

The MSJ library is part of which 'block'?

Accepted Answer

7

Question 11

Mem Fox wrote the classic Australia Children's picture book title "________ Magic"

Accepted Answer

Possum

Question 12

True or False? 'The Hunger Games' is a dystopian text

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

What is the title of this childrens classic book?

Accepted Answer

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Question 14

The iconic short story series featuring detective Sherlock Holmes was written by which author?

Accepted Answer

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Question 15

True or False? "Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself..."

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

In the children's book 'Pig the Pug', Pig lives with who?

Accepted Answer

A sausage dog named Trevor

Question 17

Which classic childrens book has this picture on the cover?

Accepted Answer

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Question 18

'The Lion King' is said to draw from which of Shakespeare's plays?

Accepted Answer

Hamlet

Question 19

'Animal Farm' is a famous novella written by....

Accepted Answer

George Orwell

Question 20

According to Julia Donaldson's picture book 'The Gruffalo', a Gruffalo has....

Accepted Answer

"Terrible tusks and terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws"

Question 21

Othello can be best described as a _________ man

Accepted Answer

jealous

Question 22

'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' is the third novel in the Harry Potter series

Accepted Answer

False

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