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Familiar to adults primarily for "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", Mark Haddon has also written extensively for children, including the "Agent Z" series which was the basis for a Children's BBC comedy.
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  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime    
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"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" is a unique book that was fun and exciting to read. Mark Haddon created a unique personality and it made a delightful story. Good Luck.
Average, 10 Qns, kyleisalive, Jul 03 10
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  A Dog, A Death, A Journey.   popular trivia quiz  
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A look at "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime" by Mark Haddon.
Average, 10 Qns, Christinap, Apr 15 14
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  "The Curious Incident of the Dog. . ."    
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Written by Mark Haddon, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" is a wonderful book that was suggested as one of the 1001 books to read before you die.
Average, 10 Qns, pennie1478, Aug 27 07
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  The Curious Incident   popular trivia quiz  
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"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" By Mark Haddon provides a rare opportunity to see inside the mind of a person with Asperger's Syndrome. How does your memory compare to that of Christopher John Francis Boone?
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Christopher always needs to know what the time is; we see this in the first sentence of the novel. What time is it in the opening scene?

From Quiz "The Curious Incident"




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Mark Haddon Trivia Questions
1. The dog in question is Wellington, a poodle, who is found dead. What implement has been used to kill him?

From Quiz A Dog, A Death, A Journey.

Answer: A garden fork

Wellington, the black poodle, has been killed with a garden fork. He belonged to Mrs. Shears, a neighbour of Christopher John Francis Boone, the central character in the book. He decides to investigate the death even though he is only 15 and is also autistic. His father forbids him to get involved, but he ignores this. He writes down all his experiences in a book that he calls his "murder mystery novel".

2. Christopher always needs to know what the time is; we see this in the first sentence of the novel. What time is it in the opening scene?

From Quiz The Curious Incident

Answer: 7 minutes after midnight

The exact time of day is so important to Christopher that it is stated repeatedly throughout the book. Once we even see Christopher panic and scream when a policeman tries to remove his watch.

3. What was significant about the chapters in the book?

From Quiz "The Curious Incident of the Dog. . ."

Answer: They were prime numbers

Christopher has Asperger's syndrome which is a type of autism. Christopher pays very close attention to details, hates certain colors, and likes prime numbers which is why his chapters are numbered in prime numbers.

4. What kind of dog was Wellington?

From Quiz The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Answer: Poodle

After Wellington is stabbed with a fork, Christopher hunts down the killer and writes this mystery novel. Wellington wasn't the small toy-type poodle, he was a bigger dog.

5. Police suspicion falls on Christopher. When he is questioned he ends up hitting a policeman. Why did he do this?

From Quiz A Dog, A Death, A Journey.

Answer: Because the policeman touched him

Christopher's autism makes it hard for him to communicate with strangers, and he hates being touched. When the police are talking to him about the death of Wellington a policeman touches him and Christopher hits him. He ends up in a police cell but is later released with just a caution.

6. Christopher likes prime numbers so much that he numbers the chapters with them and spends a chapter discussing them. In this chapter how does Christopher compare prime numbers to life?

From Quiz The Curious Incident

Answer: They are very logical but you could never work out the rules.

Christopher describes prime numbers as what is left when you take all the patterns away; he knows every prime number up to 7,507.

7. What were the two pets that Christopher had in the book?

From Quiz "The Curious Incident of the Dog. . ."

Answer: Rat and dog

Christopher had a rat that he called Toby. Toby died when he was two years old. Christopher's dad got him a dog that Christopher named Sandy.

8. What is Christopher's last name?

From Quiz The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Answer: Boone

Christopher knows all of the countries in the world and their capitals, every prime number up to seven-thousand and fifty-seven, and he hates the colour yellow. He also can't understand human emotions.

9. How does Christopher find out that his mother is not dead?

From Quiz A Dog, A Death, A Journey.

Answer: He finds letters from her

Christopher's father has always told him his mother is dead. When looking for his book detailing his investigations, that his father has confiscated from him, Christopher finds letters from his mother to him, all dated after her supposed death. His father has hidden these from him. This distresses him so much he is unable to move for several hours.

10. What reason was Christopher given for why his dad hated Mr. Shears?

From Quiz "The Curious Incident of the Dog. . ."

Answer: Mr. Shears had an affair with Christopher's mom

One of Christopher's neighbors named Mrs. Alexander told Christopher that his mom and Mr. Shears had been spending time together and then had become intimately involved. Christopher didn't tell his dad he knew about his mom's affair.

11. What object does the police officer let Christopher take into the jail cell with him?

From Quiz The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Answer: His watch

The police took Christopher to the station after he hurt one of the police officers. They tried to take away anything that wound either help him escape or commit suicide.

12. Who is the lady who looks after Christopher while he is at school?

From Quiz A Dog, A Death, A Journey.

Answer: Siobhan

Siobhan is part professional health carer, part mentor, part teacher. She is with Christopher every day when he is at school and she helps him to understand how the world around him works. It is thanks to her that he has some understanding of his place in society and how to interact with it.

13. "I think I would make a very good _________." Finish the quote, Chapter 83

From Quiz The Curious Incident

Answer: astronaut

Christopher loves stars and space, referring them countless times in the book. It's his dream to become an astronaut.

14. What kind of day does Christopher have if he passes four red cars in a row on the way to school?

From Quiz The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Answer: Good Day

If Christopher passes five red cars, it's a Super Good Day, and if he passes three it will be a Quite Good Day. To have a Black Day four yellow cars need to be in a row.

15. Christopher discovers that his mother ran away with Mr. Shears. Who is the neighbour who tells him this?

From Quiz A Dog, A Death, A Journey.

Answer: Mrs Alexander

Mrs Alexander is an elderly lady, and before he starts investigating the death of Wellington Christopher has never been brave enough to talk to her. She tells him that his mother and Mr. Shears had an affair and that they both left their respective spouses to go and live together.

16. Christopher spends chapter 101 discussing The Monty Hall Problem. What did Christopher say he liked about The Monty Hall problem?

From Quiz The Curious Incident

Answer: Numbers are sometimes very complicated and not straight forward at all.

Logic is one of the things Christopher values very highly. He uses the Monty Hall problem to show how logic always gives a correct answer, no matter how complicated it is. This is as opposed to intuition which is often wrong.

17. What actually happened to Christopher's mom?

From Quiz "The Curious Incident of the Dog. . ."

Answer: She ran away to live in London

While in the his dad's room, Christopher found all the letters that his mom had written him after she moved to London. When Christopher found out what happened to Wellington, he ran away to live with her. Eventually, his mom moved back home and lived in a small apartment with him.

18. What town does Christopher live in?

From Quiz The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Answer: Swindon

Not much is said about Swindon. We are told it is a small town in the United Kingdom outside London. It is where the whole story takes place.

19. Who confesses to killing Wellington?

From Quiz A Dog, A Death, A Journey.

Answer: Christopher's father

After Christopher becomes so upset when he finds his mother's letters, Ed, Christopher's father, admits to him that he killed Wellington. He says his temper got out of hand when he had an argument with Mrs. Shears. After this Christopher no longer trusts his father, and is also scared that if he could kill a dog he could also kill him, so he runs away from home.

20. In another one of Christopher's many digressions he mentions Occam's Razor which states: "Entia non sunt multiplicanda preater necessitatem." What does he say this means?

From Quiz The Curious Incident

Answer: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

Christopher believes anyone that believes in fairies or ghost or heaven is silly because they are illogical things to believe in.

21. At the beginning of the story, how did Christopher think Wellington, the dog, had been killed?

From Quiz "The Curious Incident of the Dog. . ."

Answer: Killed by a garden fork

The story started at 12:07 AM and a dog has been found dead. The death of the dog had been found to be a garden fork which was still stuck in him.

22. Christopher lives in Swindon. He runs away to try and find his mother. Where does he have to travel to?

From Quiz A Dog, A Death, A Journey.

Answer: London

Christopher has his mother's address from the letters he found, so he sets off for London to try and find her. His autism makes this very difficult for him as he has to buy tickets, travel on crowded trains and tube trains, and take in what, for him, is an overload of information. Eventually though he does manage to find his mother's home.

23. What reason did Christopher not give to explain why he likes dogs?

From Quiz The Curious Incident

Answer: you can always trust them

The motif of the dog is seen throughout the novel. It creates a point of comparison that highlights the problems in humanity that Christopher can see but struggles to put words to. Christopher never says that you can always trust dogs but this idea is alluded to whenever dogs are mentioned.

24. What is Mr. Shears' first name?

From Quiz The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Answer: Roger

Roger Shears and Chris' mother both leave their spouses to live together. Chris thinks that his mother is dead until he reads the letters she's been sending.

25. After being with his mother and Mr. Shears for a short while Christopher wants to return to Swindon. What reason does he give?

From Quiz A Dog, A Death, A Journey.

Answer: To take his maths A Level

Christopher is something of a genius at maths. The logic of numbers is something his mind can grasp and understand easily. He wants to return to Swindon to take his maths A. Level. Mr Shears does not want him there anyway, so Judy, his mother, rents a place in Swindon and returns with Christopher so that he can live with her.

26. What was Conway's Soldiers?

From Quiz The Curious Incident

Answer: A maths problem

Whenever Christopher is scared he does maths calculations to calm down and feel safe. He thinks about Conway's Soldiers maths problem when he begins to panic in the busy Swindon train station.

27. What Sherlock Holmes story was Christopher's favorite?

From Quiz "The Curious Incident of the Dog. . ."

Answer: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Christopher's favorite Sherlock Holmes mystery was "The Hound of the Baskervilles" because it was a mystery and had lots of clues and 'red herrings' in it.

28. What sort of puppy does Christopher's father give him in an attempt to regain his trust?

From Quiz A Dog, A Death, A Journey.

Answer: Golden Retriever

Christopher continues to live with his mother and to be terrified of his father. His father comes to see him almost daily, but Christopher tries to stop him from even speaking to him. In an attempt to regain his trust his father gives him a golden retriever puppy and tells him it is up to him to name him. He vows he will regain his trust no matter how long it takes.

29. "And this is why I like timetables because they make sure ___________." Finish the quote Chapter 193.

From Quiz The Curious Incident

Answer: you don't get lost in time

Christopher views time as a puzzle that has never been solved. He compares being lost in time to being lost in a desert that you can't see because it is not a thing.

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