Alice Sebold Trivia

1. "The Lovely Bones" begins with the violent murder of Susie Salmon. George Harvey, her neighbour is her murderer, but where was Susie murdered?

From Quiz Obscure Facts in "The Lovely Bones"

Answer: Under the cornfield

Susie Salmon ("like the fish") was murdered on December 6, 1973, when she was 14 years old. Susie was on her way home from school and because it was getting late she decided to take a shortcut through the cornfield. Mr. Harvey was there; he convinced her to come and see the bunker he had built. The bunker was under the cornfield. He claimed it was for the neighborhood children so that they would have a place to play, their very own clubhouse. Harvey murdered Susie, and butchered her body in this bunker. After he removed her body, he disassembled the bunker. He placed Susie's body in an old safe and tossed into the sinkhole. The only real evidence that the police found was some of Susie's school notes, her elbow, her hat and years later her Pennsylvania keystone charm. "The Lovely Bones" is told from Susie's perspective. She is able to watch earth, something she calls scanning. This scanning allows her to watch her family, friends, and even Mr. Harvey.

From Quiz "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold

Answer: December 6,1973

Susie was 14 when she was murdered. She is telling her story from her heaven.

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Answer: Franny

Susie's heaven is based in a high school - a place she never got to go to on Earth.

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Answer: December

Susie was raped and murdered in a cornfield near her house by her neighbor, George Harvey. The book is narrated by her in heaven, as she looks down upon her loved ones and Mr Harvey as well.

From Quiz Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones"

Answer: Salmon

When Susie introduced herself in the first sentence of the book, she said her last name was 'like the fish'.

From Quiz The Lovely Bones

Answer: George Harvey

Mr. Harvey, Susie's neighbor, lured her into a hole that he had dug in the ground and killed her. He later told her family how sorry he was for their loss.

From Quiz Obscure Facts in "The Lovely Bones"

Answer: "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

On her third day in heaven, Susie met her roommate, Holly. Neither liked it in heaven, but they learn how to create their own specific heaven. Holly is not her real name. Audrey Hepburn played Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and from this character Holly picked her name. Heaven is adaptable to each person. Holly didn't want to have an accent, so she doesn't. In Holly and Susie's heavens, at first it appeared to be a high school but with no classes, the exception being art and music. As the girls want more, their heavens expand and grow. Heavens can overlap; the javelin throwers have their own heaven but fits into Susie's heaven as well.

From Quiz "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold

Answer: George Harvey

Ray Singh was Susie's first love, Joe Ellis was accused after he 'murdered' neighbourhood pets, Ruth Connors was a girl who, after Susie's death, became more connected to her.

From Quiz The Lovely Bones

Answer: Photographer

Susie was a teenager when she was murdered, so she never got to achieve her dream.

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Answer: 2 & two

Susie was the oldest of three children. She had a sister, Lindsey, who was a year younger, and a brother, Buckley, who was only a toddler.

From Quiz Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones"

Answer: 14

Susie was killed on December 6, 1973, in a cornfield by a man that lived in their neighborhood named Mr. Harvey.

From Quiz The Lovely Bones

Answer: Holly

Neither Susie nor Holly liked Heaven when they first got there.

From Quiz Obscure Facts in "The Lovely Bones"

Answer: Saint Mary's Church

On earth, Franny had been a social worker who worked with the homeless. She worked at Saint Mary's Church, a place that catered to women and children only. A husband who was looking for his wife shot Franny in the face, which resulted in her death. In heaven, Franny is Susie and Holly's counselor and guide. She also acts as the girls' mother figure, something that both Holly and Susie have been looking for. Franny explained that in heaven if someone desired something enough, it would happen. An example being Susie likes dogs, she wanted dogs in her heaven so there are dogs. There is an exception, the desire to live, it won't happen. They can watch the living on earth, observe their lives, but they can't be a part of that life.

From Quiz "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold

Answer: 13

Susie's sister is 13. She falls in love with Samuel, her 'one and only'.

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Answer: Lindsey and Buckley

Lindsey is only a year younger than Susie, and the girls were very close. They thought the world of their baby brother too.

From Quiz The Lovely Bones

Answer: the shoe

Susie liked to be the shoe when she played Monopoly. Buckley was having a hard time understanding that she wouldn't be coming back...ever.

From Quiz Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones"

Answer: Ray

After Susie's death, Ray became friends with a shy girl named Ruth.

From Quiz The Lovely Bones

Answer: Abigail Suzanne

At this time in the book, Susie accepted that she was not on Earth and never would be. She said that Abigail Suzanne was Little Susie to her.

From Quiz Obscure Facts in "The Lovely Bones"

Answer: Skunk

Susie's heaven smells of skunk. Not a strong smell of skunk but a faint smell. Holly's heaven smells like kumquats and Franny's heaven smells like pure grade A tobacco. Later in the book Susie is scanning earth with her grandfather, and again it mentioned that there is a faint smell of skunk in the air. Heaven is individual, it's designed to each person but they can overlap. This is why Susie can smell the tobacco and kumquats.

From Quiz "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold

Answer: Detective Fenerman

Detective Fenerman and Abigail, Susie's mom, have an affair.

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Answer: 6

Leidia Johnson was just six when Mr Harvey killed her. His oldest victim was 49.

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Answer: Samuel

Samuel and Lindsey stayed together throughout their high school and college life. At the end, Samuel proposed to Lindsey, and she agreed. Susie was ecstatic up above in heaven. Hal was Samuel's older brother. Ray was Susie's crush, and Len was the police officer in charge of Susie's murder.

From Quiz Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones"

Answer: Heaven

Susie made a friend named Holly who told her about what it was like living in Heaven.

From Quiz The Lovely Bones

Answer: Ray Singh

Susie was on Earth for a short while in Ruth's body. She spent this time with Ray Singh, the boy who had had a schoolboy crush on her in junior high. She did try calling Buckley on the phone and telling him that it was Susie, his big sister, but her voice faded away.

From Quiz Obscure Facts in "The Lovely Bones"

Answer: Natalie

Mrs. Utemeyer, according to Abigail (Susie's mother) had lost part of her brain. When Susie was six and Lindsey was five, Mrs. Utemeyer and her son moved in next door. She used to wander outside and get lost, eventually ending up in the Salmon's yard under their dogwood tree. Abigail would go outside and bring her in the house, make her tea, calm her down and call her son. Sometimes she would still be there when Susie and Lindsey returned from school. She had developed a fondness for Lindsey, except she always called her Natalie. After Susie died, she met Mrs. Utemeyer in heaven. With her was a little blond girl that she introduced as her daughter Natalie.

From Quiz "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold

Answer: He was studying to be a doctor

Yes, Ray wanted to become a doctor, just like his dad. Susie often read his books over his shoulder.

From Quiz The Lovely Bones

Answer: Leah

Sophie was Mr Harvey's oldest victim, at 49. Clarissa was Susie's friend on Earth, and Holly is Susie's friend in heaven.

From Quiz The Lovely Bones

Answer: Grandma Lynn

Susie said that when she was alive, she didn't like Grandma Lynn very much, but that she was a big part of helping the family cope with the loss of Susie.

From Quiz Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones"

Answer: California

After Susie died, Abigail traveled to California where she worked in a winery. After her husband had a heart attack, she returned home.

From Quiz Obscure Facts in "The Lovely Bones"

Answer: Daffodils

After Susie's father, Jack, had a heart attack, Abigail returned home. With Susie gone, she was unable to cope at home and left. She ended up in California working in a winery. Outside of the hospital, a young girl was selling flowers, specifically daffodils. Each bundle of daffodils had a lavender ribbon. Abigail purchased all of these flowers. With the help of Nurse Eliot, Abigail puts them in vases and placed them all over Jack's hospital room. After Jack woke up, he saw all the flowers and Abigail said that daffodils were Susie's flowers.

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