"Finding Katie" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Catholic school for girls

Katie and her best friend Jennifer attended an all-girls private Catholic school. Their two teachers were Sister Mary and Sister Martha. Even though Katie loved the nuns, she often wished her school was not as strict.

Answer: Museum

Katie and Jennifer were on a school field trip to a museum when they first met Mark and David. At first they introduced themselves with made-up names, but they exchanged phone numbers before the girls left. Soon after Katie started dating Mark and Jennifer started dating David.

Answer: She climbed down the fire escape

Mark invited Katie to his school's dance, and she agreed to go even though she knew her parents wouldn't let her. She finally figured out how to escape by climbing out the window and down the portable fire escape ladder. Then she climbed down the fence. Katie decided to put her dress in a bag and climb down in her underwear, just so she wouldn't snag her dress on anything.

Answer: True

Katie's father had a history of beating her mother and treating her like an outcast. Then he would be very kind to earn her forgiveness. Katie noticed her father started being unusually nice to her, claiming it was for all the time he hadn't spent with her. Katie even started to feel uncomfortable by all the attention her father was giving her. Suddenly one morning he pulled her out of bed and drove her to a run-down area of town and let her out.

Answer: 8th

When Katie was first found on the street and brought to the Salvation Army shelter, she told the people there she was 14 instead of 16. After she was taken in by the Jacksons, who were already taking care of four kids, Katie was place in 8th grade instead of her correct grade, 10th. She started to feel humiliated, then depressed when she couldn't be around people her age.

Answer: They ran away

One night in November, Katie caught Dick and Frog, two unruly boys the Jacksons were keeping, intentionally trying to hurt four-year old Donita. Katie hit Dick with a rock, then she left an anonymous note with their school principal about the incident. However the two boys ran away from the foster home before they could be punished.

Answer: False

When Katie first came to the Jacksons' house, both Melba Lacy and Donita were very quiet and seemed to be scared by other people in the house. First Katie worked with Melba Lacy to help her break out of her shell, then she did the same for Donita. In March the child protection agency came and took Donita, claiming she had shown so much improvement she would be sent to another home. Katie was very upset to see her leave.

Answer: JoAnne

All of the kids had to leave the Jacksons' house because Mrs. Jackson was in poor health. Katie and JoAnne were kept together. Katie started working with JoAnne closely the same way she did with Donita and Melba Lacy. One night JoAnne saw Katie writing in her journal and finally let her read it. She also encourages JoAnne to write her own journal and permits Katie to read it.

Answer: Bob got a job in another town

The third foster home Katie lived in belonged to a young couple named Bob and Marie Goster. Katie described them as "the kind of parents every kid in the world would love to have." A couple of days before Christmas, Bob announced that he had been chosen to be professor at the university because a previous professor had died. Since the university was three hours away, Marie had to move with him.

They were very sad to have to leave the kids.

Answer: Mary Matthews

When Katie was sent to the Williams' house, she became very close with her teacher, Miss McNamarra. One day her teacher took her to visit a friend of hers named Mary Matthews. Mary was a professor at UCLA and had grown up in foster care herself. Her husband of many years had died the year before, and she had been very lonely. Mary asked Katie if she could adopt her.

A few weeks later, Katie moved in with Mary and even called her "Mom". Mary even took Katie back to visit the nuns at her old school. Katie felt closer to Mary than anyone she had known, including her birth parents.