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Quiz about The Hollow
Quiz about The Hollow

"The Hollow" Trivia Quiz


"The Hollow" is the second book in Nora Roberts' trilogy "The Sign of Seven". Warning - SPOILERS.

A multiple-choice quiz by red_stone. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
red_stone
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
291,148
Updated
Jul 23 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. What tragedy occurred in the first paragraph of the book? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What is Fox's occupation? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What is Layla afraid of? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. According to the diary, where did Ann Hawkins stay when Giles sent her away to have their children and for their safety? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Where were more of Ann Hawkins' diaries found? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. What did Fox give to Mrs. H. before she left? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What did Sage ask her brother Fox to do? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. In one of the scenes in the book, after Layla and Fox had a fight, Quinn decided to get ice cream to cheer everybody up. While she was doing that, Layla was having a shower, and Gage had dropped in at the house. The evil entity chose that moment to attack the main characters. What did Cybil believe had happened to her? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Layla, Quinn and Cybil spent spent three days looking for the perfect wedding gown for Quinn only to have Quinn find what she considered the perfect gown on the Internet.


Question 10 of 10
10. During a ritual preformed by all six main characters, what happened to the three pieces of the bloodstone? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What tragedy occurred in the first paragraph of the book?

Answer: A dog drowned.

"On a bright summer morning, a teacup poodle drowned in the Bestler's backyard swimming pool.", This is the very first line in the novel. Every seven years an evil entity invades the town and this is the beginning.
2. What is Fox's occupation?

Answer: Lawyer

Fox opened a small law practice in Hawkins Hollow. With the time for the "seven" approaching, his secretary has decided to leave town to escape the evil. Layla takes over doing the job that Mrs. H. did as Fox's secretary, putting her in close proximity to Fox.
3. What is Layla afraid of?

Answer: Things that slither

In the novel the evil entity manifests itself into things that the main characters fear. The entity manifests a snake in Fox's office while Layla was alone, then again later in the book, manifested snakes coming out of her shower drain. Layla was discussing her fears with the group of main characters; she said "I don't know if it's an actual phobia. I just don't like...okay, I'm afraid of snakes. Things that slither."
4. According to the diary, where did Ann Hawkins stay when Giles sent her away to have their children and for their safety?

Answer: With her cousin and her cousin's husband.

In the diaries of Ann's that were found, she talks about how grateful she is to her cousin for taking her in. Giles sent Ann to them to protect her and their unborn children while he faced the demon.
5. Where were more of Ann Hawkins' diaries found?

Answer: In Fox's childhood home.

Quinn researched for possible relatives of Ann Hawkins, and she found the cousin. The cousin's family name was Ellsworth; with that information Quinn was able to determine that they had lived on a farm that the locals called "Hollow Creek". "Hollow Creek" turned out to be Fox's family home, so the main characters were able to search the farm. On the first search Fox's parents were home and they did not find the diaries.

The main characters went back when Fox's parents were not present and they found them that time.
6. What did Fox give to Mrs. H. before she left?

Answer: A pearl necklace.

When Mrs. H. came to the office to say good-bye before she and her husband left town, Fox gave her a present. He told her that the gift was not to be considered a going-away present because he was too upset with her to give her a going-away gift. It was to be considered a thank-you gift for everything that she had done for him.
7. What did Sage ask her brother Fox to do?

Answer: To be the biological father of her partner's child.

Sage and her partner Paula have decided that they want to have a child. Fox was asked and he agreed to father Paula's child, so that his sister Sage could be a parent.
8. In one of the scenes in the book, after Layla and Fox had a fight, Quinn decided to get ice cream to cheer everybody up. While she was doing that, Layla was having a shower, and Gage had dropped in at the house. The evil entity chose that moment to attack the main characters. What did Cybil believe had happened to her?

Answer: She believed that she was blind.

Each of the main characters suffers through something simultaneously. Fox was in his office when spiders started to attack him, Layla was having a shower and she believed that snakes were coming out of the drains. Caleb was leaving the bowling alley and everywhere he went in town had been bombed; meanwhile Quinn was jogging to the store for ice-cream but she was stuck in a loop repeatedly jogging the same block.

At the house Gage had stopped and was talking to Cybil when she went blind. Gage believed he was a young child again waiting at home for a drunk abusive parent.
9. Layla, Quinn and Cybil spent spent three days looking for the perfect wedding gown for Quinn only to have Quinn find what she considered the perfect gown on the Internet.

Answer: False

The three women spent a day looking at gowns at a little boutique that Layla found. Each of them choose what they thought was the perfect gown, then after the choices were made Quinn tried on the gowns. The gown that Quinn choose was the one that Layla picked out for her.
10. During a ritual preformed by all six main characters, what happened to the three pieces of the bloodstone?

Answer: The pieces were reunited to make one whole.

Towards the end of the novel the main characters decided to preform the blood ritual at Pagan Stone. The ritual involved a variety of items, a chant, as well as blood from each of the main characters. In the end, the pieces of the bloodstone that had been broken in three by Giles centuries earlier were reunited and the stone was made whole again.
Source: Author red_stone

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