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Elaine Lobl Konigsburg is one of only a few authors to have won two Newbery medals. Her first was for the 1967 story "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" (and another of her novels, "Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth" was a runner-up in the same year); the second award was for "The View from Saturday", 29 years later.
3 quizzes and 25 trivia questions.
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  The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about the wonderful book "From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler" by E. L. Konigsburg.
Average, 10 Qns, pandadude626, Feb 11 05
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  From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on a wonderful book called 'From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler', by E.L. Konigsburg, winner of the 1967 John Newbery Medal.
Very Difficult, 10 Qns, meals, Apr 03 10
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  The View From Saturday    
Multiple Choice
 5 Qns
This is a quiz on a Newbery medal winner, 'The View From Saturday', a truly terrific book by E.L. Konigsburg. Hope you enjoy!
Tough, 5 Qns, meals, Mar 08 06
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E. L. Konigsburg Trivia Questions
1. What museum Do Claudia and Jamie run away to?

From Quiz The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler

Answer: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

After much careful planning Claudia decides on The Metropolitan Museum of Art to be the place she and Jamie run away to. In which she plans on learning something new every day.

2. Who thinks 'The Souls' should be called 'The Sillington Souls'?

From Quiz The View From Saturday

Answer: Noah

Julian, Nadia, Ethan and Noah have started to have tea together every Saturday quite regularly at this point in the book. They have a kind of contest to see who can peel off the longest strip of wallpaper in Sillington House. Nadia then gets to choose the name of their group, 'The Souls.' Noah thinks it should be 'The Sillington Souls', but Nadia counters by saying 'Less is more'.

3. Claudia emptied wastebaskets on which day?

From Quiz From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil

Answer: Saturday

'On Saturdays Claudia emptied wastebaskets, a task she despised. There were so many of them. Everyone in her family had his own bedroom and wastebasket except her parents who shared both--with each other. Almost every Saturday Steve emptied his pencil sharpener into his. She knew he made his basket messy on purpose.'

4. Where do Claudia and Jamie hide at the museums closing time?

From Quiz The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler

Answer: The bathrooms

Claudia hides in the girl's bathroom and Jamie hides in the boy's bathroom. The guards don't discover them because they stand on the toilet seat and the guards only check under the stalls for people's feet.

5. Who is a passenger on the spaceship Earth?

From Quiz The View From Saturday

Answer: Julian

Ham Knapp, who seems to think it is his duty to make Julian as miserable as possible, wrote 'I am a ass' on his leather bookbag with an indelible marker. Julian then changes this to read 'I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth', using the letters Ham wrote.

6. On which floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the Arms and Armor exhibit?

From Quiz From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil

Answer: Main Floor

The Arms and Armor exhibit was the one Claudia thought Jamie would pick to spend time in. She was surprised when he chose the Italian Renaissance, on the second floor.

7. How many pumpkins did Ethan sell Mr. Singh?

From Quiz The View From Saturday

Answer: Four

Ethan and his family have a farm. They also have a stall at the Farmers' Market, and Ethan sells the Singhs four pumpkins for ten dollars. Inside the ten dollar bill is part of an invitation to tea at Sillington House.

8. Who in Jamie's class looks like Pharoah?

From Quiz From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil

Answer: Sarah Sawhill

Claudia and Jamie were extremely surprised to find that Jamie's class had come to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They ran into them in the Egyptian exhibit.

9. How much did Angel sell for at the auction?

From Quiz The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler

Answer: $225

Angel sold for $225 at the auction. The statue was from the collection of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler.

10. During the first turtle walk Nadia did on her vacation to her father's, how many empty shells were there?

From Quiz The View From Saturday

Answer: 96

Margaret, Nadia's grandfather, Nadia, her father, and Nadia's dog, Ginger, all go on 'turtle walks' in Florida to help baby turtles to the sea. On Nadia's first turtle walk in this book, there were 96 empty shells in the nest.

11. Where did the guards once find a pair of false teeth?

From Quiz From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil

Answer: An Etruscan chariot

'Morris say that the guards who have been at the museum a year have seen {everything;} those that have worked there six months have seen half of everything. They once found a pair of false teeth on the seat of an Etruscan chariot.'

12. How did Claudia and Jamie get money while at the museum?

From Quiz The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler

Answer: From the fountain that they took baths in.

Jamie was pleased to find lots of coins at the bottom of the fountain when he was taking a bath.

13. When Claudia said that someone must have put their beer can near Angel, what kind of beer did Jamie say it was?

From Quiz From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil

Answer: Ballatine beer

14. When the Kincaids stole the New York Times newspaper, what was the first owner looking at?

From Quiz From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil

Answer: Antique jewelry

'They got the New York Times next day. Neither Claudia nor Jamie bought it. The man who left it on the counter while he was looking at reproductions of antique jewelry bought it. The Kincaids stole it from him. They left the museum immediately thereafter.'

15. What did Jamie sign his name as to buy a post office box?

From Quiz From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil

Answer: Angelo Michaels

'Jamie paid the rent, signed his name as Angelo Michaels, and gave his address as Marblehead, Massachusetts.'

16. How many students in Gr. 6, W.P.S. were wondering when they would eat?

From Quiz From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil

Answer: Twelve

'At least twelve were busy poking each {other;} twelve were wondering when they would {eat;} four were worried about when they could get a drink of water.'

17. After learning that Michelangelo got in a fight and broke his nose when he was a teenager, what did Jamie ask if he was?

From Quiz From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil

Answer: A juvenile delinquent

18. What headed Claudia's letter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art about Angel?

From Quiz From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweil

Answer: Now is the time for all good men to come to aid of their party.

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