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Quiz about Robert Heinleins Juveniles
Quiz about Robert Heinleins Juveniles

Robert Heinlein's Juveniles Trivia Quiz


Although Robert Heinlein's more famous works tend to be adult oriented, he wrote a wonderful series of novels for young readers (juveniles) in the late 1940s and 1950s. Given the description, can you identify one of his great juveniles.

A multiple-choice quiz by RollTidewinner. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Question 1 of 10
1. Ross, Art, and Morrie all help to build a rocket ship to the moon. What is this Heinlein novel that ends up with the boys taking on Nazis and discovering an ancient lunar civilization? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Jim and his Martian "pet" Willis find themselves going to boarding school. What is this Heinlein novel that hinges on Jim spreading the word about a secret government plot that will endanger his family's existence on Mars? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Don Harvey is trying to get back home to Mars before war breaks out between Venus and Earth. What is this Heinlein novel in which Don Harvey unknowingly is carrying critical scientific information that can help Venus gain its independence from Earth? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. The Stone family, including two teenage boys, goes out in their own rocketship and explore the solar system. What is this Heinlein novel that involves a "gold rush" in the asteroid belts and overbreeding flat cats? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Bill Lermer is a teenager migrating to Ganymede with his new stepmother and stepsister. What is this Heinlein adventure story that involves Boy Scouts, farming, and the discovery of alien artifacts? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Max Jones escapes the family farm and his new stepfather and hopes to make it into space as an astrogator. That fails, so he sneaks onto a space ship with fake papers. What is this novel, in which Max is shown to be very adept at piloting a space ship, and saves the ship and crew with his eidetic memory? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. In his Advanced Survival class Rod Walker is teleported to an unknown planet. Disaster strikes when contact is lost with Earth, and Rob and other students must band together. What is this Heinlein novel about survival and the mysterious animal "stobor?" Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. The Long Range Foundation outfits torchships for travel to other stars. They also use telepathic twins (Tom and Pat Bartlett), one of whom stays behind. What is this Heinlein novel that involves exploration of other planets and run ins with deadly aliens? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Thorby the slave is rescued by Baslim the beggar. But Baslim is more than he seems, and Thorby finds out he wasn't always a slave. What is this Heinlein novel? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Kip Russell enters a contest and wins a spacesuit. He inadvertently becomes involved with Peewee and Mother Thing who have been kidnapped. What is this Heinlein novel that has the human race put on trial? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Ross, Art, and Morrie all help to build a rocket ship to the moon. What is this Heinlein novel that ends up with the boys taking on Nazis and discovering an ancient lunar civilization?

Answer: Rocket Ship Galileo

"Rocket Ship Galileo" (1947) may be the weakest of his novels for juveniles, and the Nazi bit reads a little old today. However, this book shows his early ability to focus on science and a step-by-step plausible (for his day) plot. It is a fun yarn. Interestingly, this novel was supposedly rejected for the crazy idea of going to the moon.
2. Jim and his Martian "pet" Willis find themselves going to boarding school. What is this Heinlein novel that hinges on Jim spreading the word about a secret government plot that will endanger his family's existence on Mars?

Answer: Red Planet

Not to be confused with the 2000 movie of the same name, "Red Planet" (1949) was Heinlein's third juvenile novel. It involves some of the themes that Heinlein liked to focus upon, including gun rights, government interference, revolution, and possibly his original version of Mars for his later novel "Stranger In a Strange Land". One of his better efforts, it shows a Mars that is slowly dying but still has some oxygen, Martians, plant life, and canals.

A new revised version of "Red Planet" was released after Heinlein's death in order to put out a version that was closer to Heinlein's original intentions. The publishing house Scribner had an editor named Alice Dalgliesh who battled with Heinlein about the content of his novels. You can read more about these battles in the book "Grumbles from the Grave."
3. Don Harvey is trying to get back home to Mars before war breaks out between Venus and Earth. What is this Heinlein novel in which Don Harvey unknowingly is carrying critical scientific information that can help Venus gain its independence from Earth?

Answer: Between Planets

"Between Planets" is a 1951 novel, originally published in the magazine "Blue Book." From his autobiography, "Grumbles From the Grave", one notes that Heinlein was always trying to push into mainstream fiction magazines (which generally paid more than science fiction magazines). It was published as a novel the same year. This novel is a mixture between science and a political thriller.
4. The Stone family, including two teenage boys, goes out in their own rocketship and explore the solar system. What is this Heinlein novel that involves a "gold rush" in the asteroid belts and overbreeding flat cats?

Answer: The Rolling Stones

"The Rolling Stones" (1952) continues Heinlein's juveniles with an exploration of the solar system. It is an interesting fact that the "Star Trek" episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" may have been inspired by the flat cats (Martian animals) mentioned in this book. In a letter in Heinlein's "Grumbles from the Grave", Heinlein allows Star Trek to use the idea of the uncontrollably breeding tribbles, stating that he himself got the idea of his flat cat breeding problems from the story "Pig is Pigs" by Ellis Parker Butler.

Hazel Stone would later appear in several of Heinlein's adult novels, tying his early and later works in an idea he called World as Myth--where all worlds including this one and the world of fiction (including Heinlein's) really do exist.
5. Bill Lermer is a teenager migrating to Ganymede with his new stepmother and stepsister. What is this Heinlein adventure story that involves Boy Scouts, farming, and the discovery of alien artifacts?

Answer: Farmer in the Sky

"Farmer in the Sky" (1953) is a novel that began as a short story ("Satellite Scout") for "Boy's Life" magazine in 1951. Although Heinlein took great pains to get his science right, we now know the description of Ganymede to be completely wrong. Nevertheless, it is a still a good story about pioneer life.

Although it was published in 1951, in 2001 the World Science Fiction Society awarded "Farmer in the Sky" with a retro Hugo Award for Best Novel, awards given for those years when a Worldcon was hosted but no award given.
6. Max Jones escapes the family farm and his new stepfather and hopes to make it into space as an astrogator. That fails, so he sneaks onto a space ship with fake papers. What is this novel, in which Max is shown to be very adept at piloting a space ship, and saves the ship and crew with his eidetic memory?

Answer: Starman Jones

"Starman Jones" (1953) was Heinlein's first juvenile novel to take its readers beyond the solar system. Some critics/readers see the last part of the novel, in which centaurs attack the human colonists, as a response by Heinlein to Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", in which Swift compares humans to the Yahoos.
7. In his Advanced Survival class Rod Walker is teleported to an unknown planet. Disaster strikes when contact is lost with Earth, and Rob and other students must band together. What is this Heinlein novel about survival and the mysterious animal "stobor?"

Answer: Tunnel in the Sky

"Tunnel in the Sky" (1955)is a story of a boy growing into a man, and includes several strong female characters. Unusually for its time, the main character Rod Walker is black, and the novel focuses on going from survival to a successful albeit primitive civilization.
8. The Long Range Foundation outfits torchships for travel to other stars. They also use telepathic twins (Tom and Pat Bartlett), one of whom stays behind. What is this Heinlein novel that involves exploration of other planets and run ins with deadly aliens?

Answer: Time for the Stars

"Time for the Stars" (1956) is an interesting book based on the twin paradox and the idea of an agency funding ideas (like space travel to other stars) that will not be practicable for at least a century.
9. Thorby the slave is rescued by Baslim the beggar. But Baslim is more than he seems, and Thorby finds out he wasn't always a slave. What is this Heinlein novel?

Answer: Citizen of the Galaxy

"Citizen of the Galaxy" (1957) provides a fascinating look at slavery, begging, life in a matriarchal society, military life, and the life of the wealthy. In each example, Heinlein gives insight into Thorsby's adjustment to each type of life. Heinlein completes the novel by Thorby's insight that, although extremely wealthy, Thorby feels more limited in his life than he did as a beggar.
10. Kip Russell enters a contest and wins a spacesuit. He inadvertently becomes involved with Peewee and Mother Thing who have been kidnapped. What is this Heinlein novel that has the human race put on trial?

Answer: Have Space Suit - Will Travel

The novel "Have Spacesuit-Will Travel" (1958) was nominated for a Hugo, but lost to "A Case of Conscience" by James Blish. Like several of his novels, "Have Spacesuit - Will Travel" originally appeared in magazine form (in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", August, September, October 1958). One of the key characters, Oscar (the space suit), was probably influenced by Heinlein's knowledge of pressure suits. He was involved in high altitude research during World War II.
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