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Both her first novel, "The L-Shaped Room", and the best-selling children's novel "The Indian in the Cupboard" have been adapted for film.
4 quizzes and 40 trivia questions.
1.
  The Indian in the Cupboard    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about the great book, "The Indian in the Cupboard" by Lynne Reid Banks.
Tough, 10 Qns, adambrundell, Apr 20 10
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adambrundell
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  Tiger, Tiger   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"Tiger, Tiger", by Lynne Reid Banks is a very good book, which will make you very excited, and possibly very sad. Enjoy!
Average, 10 Qns, Rachel xx, Apr 14 08
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Rachel xx
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  Lynne Reid Banks    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on one of Lynne Reid Banks's most famous books, 'The L Shaped Room.' It should be relatively easy if you have read the book!
Average, 10 Qns, lil_mix9, Aug 17 16
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  The L-Shaped Room    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about a book by Lynne Reid Banks. I enjoyed reading it as a school assignment, and I hope you enjoy my quiz about it! If you haven't read the book, then this will give away the story.
Average, 10 Qns, cheekybunny555, Nov 18 07
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trivia question Quick Question
Jane has how many months left till her baby is due, when she calls Addy?

From Quiz "The L-Shaped Room"




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  Young Adult Fiction [Literature] (30 quizzes)


Lynne Reid Banks Trivia Questions
1. Who gives Omri the key to the cupboard?

From Quiz The Indian in the Cupboard

Answer: his mother

His mother said it used to be her mother's key.

2. How many elder brothers does Aurelia have?

From Quiz Tiger, Tiger

Answer: two brothers only

Princess Aurelia's father is Septimus Caesar - she calls him "Pata" and "Father" - and her mother she calls "Mata". When the story ends, Aurelia's two brothers both die, so Aurelia and Marcus's second son becomes emperor.

3. What decade is the book set in?

From Quiz Lynne Reid Banks

Answer: 1960s

The book is set in London, in the 1960s.

4. Whose is the scary face that Jane sees in the window when she moves into the L-Shaped Room?

From Quiz The L-Shaped Room

Answer: John

When Jane first stays in her room she hears knocking from the wall that separates her from the room next to her. She goes over to the wall and sees a black face staring in at her. Later, Toby tells her it's John and he's just curious. Toby also says that John makes fantastic food.

5. Who has a pet rat?

From Quiz The Indian in the Cupboard

Answer: Gillon

He loses it in Omri's bedroom.

6. In which area of London does Jane find the house with the L-shaped room?

From Quiz Lynne Reid Banks

Answer: Fulham

The house is a large and rundown building in one of the worst areas of Fulham.

7. When Jane moves in she begins talking to the landlady. The landlady tells her that there are two prostitutes living in the basement. What are their names?

From Quiz The L-Shaped Room

Answer: Jane and Sonia

Jane meets Jane the prostitute later on in the book and finds out that she's quite nice.

8. What is Omri's father's hobby?

From Quiz The Indian in the Cupboard

Answer: gardening

Omri takes a seed tray from him for the Indian.

9. What is the religion of Jane's boss at the hotel?

From Quiz Lynne Reid Banks

Answer: Jewish

Jane's boss is Jewish, he lets Jane go after he finds out that she is pregnant.

10. What is the Indian's name?

From Quiz The Indian in the Cupboard

Answer: Little Bear

Little Bear is the son of a chief. In some editions, he is called Little Bull.

11. When did Aurelia stop loving her father?

From Quiz Tiger, Tiger

Answer: When he took her to the Games

He made her watch even though she hated the blood-spilling. The first time he let Julius go, and he would tell her when to close her eyes.

12. What is the name of the actor who fathers Jane's illegitimate child?

From Quiz Lynne Reid Banks

Answer: Terry

Terry and Jane were going out together but split up; seven years later they met up again and Jane fell pregnant. She didn't tell Terry until he found out much later.

13. What is the cowboy's name?

From Quiz The Indian in the Cupboard

Answer: Boone

Boone is from Texas.

14. Why was Brute named Brute?

From Quiz Tiger, Tiger

Answer: That's what the keeper called him when he teased him

Brute's twin was Boots. Boots was named this because the Princess insisted that his claws were not to be drawn, like his fangs/teeth were. They were taken from their mother as cubs, and one was Princess Aurelia's pampered pet, ("A pussy-wussy" Marcus taunts Aurelia), and one was to be in the Games.

15. What is the name of the black man who lives in the room next to Jane's?

From Quiz Lynne Reid Banks

Answer: John

John is a jazz player at a night club in London; at first he scares Jane but over time they become close friends.

16. What is the method that John uses to catch the bugs in Jane's bed, to show as proof?

From Quiz The L-Shaped Room

Answer: He squashes them into a bar of soap

John arranges to come round to Jane's room at night because that's when he thinks the bugs come out. He creeps up to the bed in the dark and at the last minute asks Jane to turn the light on. He whips back the cover and frantically pushes down the soap all over the mattress.

17. What is the cowboy's nickname?

From Quiz The Indian in the Cupboard

Answer: Boo-Hoo

They call him that because he is always crying.

18. Who does Julius love?

From Quiz Tiger, Tiger

Answer: Aurelia

He loves everything about her. Julius is the tiger keeper for the Princess's pampered pet, Boots.

19. What does Toby (the writer who Jane falls in love with) call his typewriter?

From Quiz Lynne Reid Banks

Answer: Millie

Toby is a Jewish writer and affectionately names his typewriter, Millie. He and Jane fall in love, but when he discovers that she is pregnant, the relationship becomes too strained to carry on, although the end of the book hints that they may get back together in the future!

20. What race is Toby?

From Quiz The L-Shaped Room

Answer: Jewish

Toby writes Jane a letter when he leaves the house and says that she probably wouldn't want to marry him anyway because he is Jewish. Jane thinks this is stupid as she likes Jews and has never said anything nasty about them to make him think that.

21. What schoolroom does Patrick hide in?

From Quiz The Indian in the Cupboard

Answer: the Music Room

He was in there for half an hour.

22. Whose idea was it to hide Boots?

From Quiz Tiger, Tiger

Answer: Marcus

Aurelia wasn't so sure but agreed when she realised that Julius should be guarding her, not sleeping. (Julius only shut his eyes so they wouldn't keep watching Aurelia.)

23. What is the nationality of the prostitute who lives with the other woman named Jane in the basement of the house?

From Quiz Lynne Reid Banks

Answer: Hungarian

Two prostitutes live in the basement of the house, one is a middle-aged woman also named Jane, and the other a Hungarian girl named Sonia.

24. What is Addy to Jane?

From Quiz The L-Shaped Room

Answer: Aunt

Jane goes to live with Aunt Addy for a while to earn some money by typing her Aunt's love letters out on a typewriter and making corrections.

25. How many people, in total, are brought to life with the cupboard?

From Quiz The Indian in the Cupboard

Answer: 6

Little Bear, the Chief who dies, the Knight with the Axe, Tommy Atkins the medical soldier, Bright Stars the woman and Boone the cowboy.

26. What does Jane do that nearly causes her to lose the baby?

From Quiz Lynne Reid Banks

Answer: Eats too much curry

Jane has cravings and goes to an Indian restaurant, however on the way home she collapses and a doctor is called. She discovers that the curry gave her indigestion and she nearly miscarried the baby. This is the turning point of the book, when Jane realises that she wants to have the baby after all.

27. What does Jane do when she's finished with Addy's letters?

From Quiz The L-Shaped Room

Answer: Puts an advert in the local shop for more work

When Jane finishes with Addy's letters she puts a ad in the local shop. She gets replies straight away although the shopkeeper said she wouldn't.

28. Who or what are the "three sisters"?

From Quiz The Indian in the Cupboard

Answer: foods

They are maize (corn), squash and beans.

29. What does Jane name her baby son when he is eventually born?

From Quiz Lynne Reid Banks

Answer: David

At the end of the book, Jane gives birth to a son and names him David.

30. Jane has how many months left till her baby is due, when she calls Addy?

From Quiz The L-Shaped Room

Answer: three

In this phone call to Addy, Jane thinks there is something the matter with her because she sounds distant and thought there were less months to go till the baby was due.

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