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Match the Newbery Plot: Part 5 Quiz

Here's part five of my series celebrating my read-through of every Newbery Medal book. No theme this time: just a mix of Newbery plots, old and new, to be matched to the title.

A matching quiz by Caseena. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Caseena

Time
4 mins

Type
Match Quiz

Quiz #
394,508

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

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(a) Drag-and-drop from the right to the left, or (b) click on a right side answer box and then on a left side box to move it.

Questions		Choices
1. People gathered for the reading of a will have to solve the mystery of the deceased's death to inherit the money.		Miss Hickory
2. A boy deals with his parents' divorce by pretending to write to a favorite author.		The One and Only Ivan
3. A man attempts to travel around the world in a hot air balloon.		The Twenty-One Balloons
4. In her last year of freedom before growing up, a girl sees New York City on wheels.		The Westing Game
5. A gorilla draws art in a mall, which unexpectedly leads to his transfer to a zoo.		Joyful Noise
6. A Bulgarian boy from a family of farmers longs to be an artist.		Dobry
7. A painter in Japan nearly gets in trouble for including a cat in a Buddhist painting.		Dear Mr. Henshaw
8. Poems celebrating the often short lives of various insects.		The Cat Who Went to Heaven
9. A doll is helped by forest animals after her family leaves her behind in the woods.		Holes
10. A boy falsely accused of theft is sent to a strange detention center, discovers his history, and breaks the family curse.		Roller Skates

Select each answer

1. People gathered for the reading of a will have to solve the mystery of the deceased's death to inherit the money.

2. A boy deals with his parents' divorce by pretending to write to a favorite author.

3. A man attempts to travel around the world in a hot air balloon.

4. In her last year of freedom before growing up, a girl sees New York City on wheels.

5. A gorilla draws art in a mall, which unexpectedly leads to his transfer to a zoo.

6. A Bulgarian boy from a family of farmers longs to be an artist.

7. A painter in Japan nearly gets in trouble for including a cat in a Buddhist painting.

8. Poems celebrating the often short lives of various insects.

9. A doll is helped by forest animals after her family leaves her behind in the woods.

10. A boy falsely accused of theft is sent to a strange detention center, discovers his history, and breaks the family curse.

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. People gathered for the reading of a will have to solve the mystery of the deceased's death to inherit the money.

Answer: The Westing Game

Here's a fun puzzle of a book that I enjoyed reading. Samuel Westing dies, and all the heirs gather at Sunset Towers, presumably for the reading of the will. However, it turns out that Westing's death might not have been natural, and the guests are each given clues to solve. Whoever figures out the secret behind his death gets his entire fortune. Ellen Raskin wrote this mystery book from 1978.

2. A boy deals with his parents' divorce by pretending to write to a favorite author.

Answer: Dear Mr. Henshaw

Beverly Cleary won the Medal for this 1983 book. Leigh has to write to a famous author for a school project. He unexpectedly gets questions to answer back. He continues to write to Mr. Henshaw, and then in a diary (whose entries he addresses to Henshaw), as he deals with lunch thieves, his parents' divorce, a lost dog, and his own difficulties in writing. I've always enjoyed this book. My copy was lost for years before I unexpectedly found it again in a clothes hamper.

3. A man attempts to travel around the world in a hot air balloon.

Answer: The Twenty-One Balloons

Professor Sherman decides to take a year off from the world and travel in a hot air balloon. The book begins with his rescue a few weeks after his departure. He then tells his story as a lecture, recounting his experiences with the strange people he found on Krakatoa. From 1948, "The Twenty-One Balloons" was written by William Pene du Bois.

4. In her last year of freedom before growing up, a girl sees New York City on wheels.

Answer: Roller Skates

"Roller Skates" is a bit similar to "Caddie Woodlawn" in that both show the final year in the life of a wild, carefree girl who has to grow up and leave those things behind. Lucinda is given a year of freedom in New York, that freedom being represented by the roller skates, while her parents are abroad.

She helps stop fruit thieves, puts on a Shakespeare puppet play, and deals with the deaths of friends. Ruth Sawyer based this 1936 book on her own childhood.

5. A gorilla draws art in a mall, which unexpectedly leads to his transfer to a zoo.

Answer: The One and Only Ivan

"The One and Only Ivan" (2012) by Katherine Applegate is loosely based on the life of a real gorilla. Ivan lives in a mall with an elephant. His artwork draws a lot of visitors, and those drawings eventually make people realize that he should be in a zoo. Personally, I think that "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio deserved the Medal more that year, and it wasn't even an Honor book!

6. A Bulgarian boy from a family of farmers longs to be an artist.

Answer: Dobry

There's very little conflict in this 1934 Monica Shannon book. Dobry helps his family farm while holding a passion for drawing and sculpting. We go through a little more than a year in his life, seeing the special events Bulgarian farmers celebrate, before Dobry's mother finally accepts her son's abilities and lets him go to art school.

7. A painter in Japan nearly gets in trouble for including a cat in a Buddhist painting.

Answer: The Cat Who Went to Heaven

This is one of the shorter Newbery Medal books. A very poor Japanese artist paints the dying Buddha surrounded by animals. He's not supposed to paint a cat because of their nature: they refused to bow to Buddha, so Buddha cursed them. However, he adds one because he has his own cat, Good Fortune.

The priests are unhappy about the painting, but something unexpected changes their minds about the cat. Elizabeth Coatsworth wrote this 1930 book.

8. Poems celebrating the often short lives of various insects.

Answer: Joyful Noise

"Joyful Noise" is a book of poetry about many different insects. The idea is that two readers read the poems aloud: sometimes they speak the same words at the same time, and sometimes they toss the poem back and forth. In one about bees, one reader is the queen while the other is the worker, each declaring that her lot is the best/worst of all lives. Paul Fleischman wrote this unique poetry book in 1988. Listen to the audiobook if you can--they read it the way the author intended.

9. A doll is helped by forest animals after her family leaves her behind in the woods.

Answer: Miss Hickory

Miss Hickory is a doll with a twig body and a nut head. When she's left behind in her corncob house in the woods (her family returns to Boston for the winter), the forest animals help her survive. The story is more about the little stories of the animals than Miss Hickory. Carolyn Sherwin Bailey wrote this 1946 book.

10. A boy falsely accused of theft is sent to a strange detention center, discovers his history, and breaks the family curse.

Answer: Holes

Through a bizarre turn of events, Stanley Yelnats IV is accused of stealing shoes. He's sent to a detention camp at Camp Green Lake, where boys dig holes, presumably to build character, but the warden has another purpose. This plotline collides with two others: the story of a 19th century outlaw, and that of Stanley's great-great-grandfather, who, the family believes, was put under a gypsy curse, which is why the Yelnats family is so unlucky. Louis Sachar wrote this very entertaining 1998 book.

Source: Author Caseena

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