Beatrice Sparks Trivia

1. When Jennie learned her parents were having problems, she asked her father what was bothering him. What did he say?

From Quiz Treacherous Love

Answer: He wasn't feeling well.

Jennie had been hearing her parents fighting at night, so one night, she saw her father alone and asked him what was wrong. He looked as though he had been crying. Jennie's dad finally told her that he and her mom weren't feeling well, but they would try to get better. It was just his way of saying they would try to work out their problems.

From Quiz Annie's Baby

Answer: Soccer field

When the book first started, Annie had just finished playing soccer for the day. That was when she first met Danny. He was sixteen, two years older than her. At first Danny said he wanted a friend, because he was new at school. Within a few days, Annie became obsessed with wanting to know him better. Finally he asked her to go to the movies with him.

From Quiz "Finding Katie"

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.

From Quiz Books By Beatrice Sparks

Answer: 1971

"Go Ask Alice" is the realistic diary of a 15-year old drug user. Throughout the book, she runs away from home twice, gets involved with the wrong crowd, and even lands in a institution. "Go Ask Alice" was published as "a real diary", but it was said to have been just a warning to teens during the rise of drug culture, and not based on fact.

From Quiz Treacherous Love

Answer: Her father had to travel with the army.

When Bridget and Jennie first saw Marcie at school, they thought she was a snob since she wasn't very social. One day Marcie asked if she could join them at lunch. She explained that she didn't try to make a lot of friends because her dad was a high-ranking military officer, and she never knew when her family would have to move next. After Jennie and Bridget got to know her, they thought Marcie was very friendly.

From Quiz "Go Ask Alice"

Answer: College professor

The girl's father was a well-respected college professor. At the beginning of the book, the family moved to a new town because her father got a job as the dean of political science at a new university.

From Quiz "Finding Katie"

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.

From Quiz Books By Beatrice Sparks

Answer: 14

Like most of her books, "Annie's Baby" says it was edited by Beatrice Sparks and the author is an "anonymous teenager". In this book 14-year old Annie becomes involved with 16-year old Danny. When she discovers she is pregnant by him, her diary becomes her outlet for the confusion she feels about him and her life. In the book, Annie even goes to visit Dr. Sparks to talk about her feelings.

From Quiz "Go Ask Alice" Quiz

Answer: We never learn

The main character's name is never revealed. The title "Go Ask Alice" is actually derived from the Jefferson Airplane song entitled "White Rabbit" which is based entirely on drugs, similar to the book itself.

From Quiz Treacherous Love

Answer: She got a boyfriend.

Right after Marcie moved back to Washington, DC, Bridget started going out with a boy named Brad. Soon Bridget didn't associate with Jennie a lot. Whenever Bridget would ask Jennie to go somewhere with her, she would bring Brad along. Jennie felt left out and sad. Bridget and Brad broke up and got back together another time, and then she broke up with him for good at the end of the book.

From Quiz Annie's Baby

Answer: She wrote a note to him and put it in his locker.

Annie and Danny went to a party in mid October with some of his friends. At the party, Danny got very drunk and had a fight with Annie on the way home. She was frightened by his behavior, but she still felt like she loved and needed him. Danny never returned any of her phone calls. Finally she wrote a note to him and put it in his locker. Later that night, he phoned Annie and said they should get back together.

From Quiz "Go Ask Alice"

Answer: LSD

During the first summer she recorded in her diary, the girl's best friend, Beth, went off to summer camp, so the narrator went to stay with her grandparents. There she met Jill, a girl from her old town. Jill invited the subject to a party where she consumed a bottle of Coke with LSD dissolved in it. In the following weeks, the girl experimented with other drugs.

From Quiz "Finding Katie"

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.

From Quiz "Go Ask Alice" Quiz

Answer: September 20

We learn this because the girl provides entries on those days explaining that it is her birthday. Three birthdays pass through the duration of this book, and the middle one goes completely unnoticed by the girl herself.

From Quiz Treacherous Love

Answer: Sunbeam

In the middle of February, Jennie's math teacher had to leave to take care of her sick mother. She was replaced by Mr. Johnstone, a funny, unique young man who was much like a student himself. Jennie liked him right away. After a few days of being in his class, Mr. Johnstone made her his teacher's assistant. One day when Jennie was in his room, Mr. Johnstone pointed to a sunbeam that was shining on his desk in a colorful vase. He said it was beautiful, but not as beautiful as she was.

From Quiz Annie's Baby

Answer: She said she had been hit by a car.

Right after Annie and Danny got back together, they were supposed to be going on a date. Instead Danny took her to his house, where, at first, they had no problems. But when Annie refused to do what he wanted, he became angry and raped and physically hurt her. Annie ran home and saw the way her clothes were torn and the bruises on her face. Trying to cover up what had happened, she slicked her clothes with motor oil and threw them in a bag. When her mother got home, she said she had been hit by a car, but not to report it because she wasn't hurt.

From Quiz "Go Ask Alice"

Answer: San Francisco

When the girl returned home from her grandparents' house, she and an older girl named Chris started selling drugs with two college boys named Ted and Richie. When the girls had a falling out with the boys, Chris and the narrator decided to run away to San Francisco so Richie woouldn't turn them in for selling drugs to kids at the elementary and middle school.

From Quiz Books By Beatrice Sparks

Answer: A substitute school teacher

Another book "edited" by Beatrice Sparks is "Treacherous Love", the diary of confused and victimized 14-year old Jennie. After her father leaves, Jennie's mother becomes depressed and distant. Jennie also become romantically involved with Mr. Johnstone, her substitute math teacher. While she continues to love him, she also feels their relationship is wrong. Finally she learns that he never really loved her and had a history of becoming involved with underage girls.

From Quiz "Go Ask Alice" Quiz

Answer: July 10

Not only did she provide an entry on July 10, but she also writes in several other entries that July 10 was the date in which she first tried drugs, or when she first "got on".

From Quiz Treacherous Love

Answer: Marcie's father

Marcie moved back to her old school not long after she moved away. The three girls thought the way to solve all their problems was by smoking marijuana. One day they were on the back porch smoking when Marcie's dad, the high-ranking military officer, walked in on them. Bridget finally told her parents because she was afraid Marcie's dad would tell on her. Jennie eventually told her mother, but she didn't get punished.

From Quiz Annie's Baby

Answer: Bracelet

Annie and Danny got back together for a second time, even though he continued to abuse her and brainwash her into putting aside her own values for his. On Christmas Eve, Danny showed up at her house, acting like a perfect gentleman. He gave Annie a gold wrapped box, and inside was a bracelet with a flower charm.

From Quiz "Go Ask Alice"

Answer: Jewelry

Chris and the girl lived in San Francisco for about a month. They worked low-paying jobs and lived in a run-down apartment. They also met a woman named Shelia who introduced them to heroin. Finally the girls decided it was too hard living in San Francisco, so they went to Berkeley and started a jewelry boutique. Their shop was open for only a few days before they packed up and went home.

From Quiz "Finding Katie"

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.

From Quiz "Go Ask Alice" Quiz

Answer: 2

Coincidentally, both times she runs away, the entries of her diary are very mixed and confused, and none of them have dates provided; as stated earlier, the girl had no sense of time.

From Quiz Treacherous Love

Answer: Perfume

The more Jennie got to know Mr. Johnstone, the more she liked him. Mr. Johnstone was constantly giving her more attention than the other students, telling her how beautiful she was. Near the end of April, he gave her a bottle of Spring's Wild Rose perfume. In May Jennie wrapped the bottle in rose petals and gave it to her mother for Mother's Day.

From Quiz Annie's Baby

Answer: Having an abortion

Right after Annie found out she was pregnant, she asked her friend Tina for advice. Tina had recently had an abortion and told Annie all the details. A few days later, she had a dream about having an abortion. From then on, she was against the idea.

From Quiz "Go Ask Alice"

Answer: She hitch-hiked.

The year after she went to California with Chris, the narrator began buying and selling drugs with the kids in her town. One night in March, she got high and hitch-hiked out to Denver. She only had $20 with her.

From Quiz "Finding Katie"

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.

From Quiz "Go Ask Alice" Quiz

Answer: Being eaten by maggots and worms.

This fear is presented several times throughout the book, and more so after the girl's grandfather dies and she has to deal directly with his death. Then when she uses acid, her fears become her reality.

From Quiz Treacherous Love

Answer: She became his aide at summer school.

Jennie was afraid she would never see Mr. Johnstone again after school let out for the summer. Right after school was out, he phoned Jennie and asked if she wanted to be his assistant when he taught summer school. She gladly accepted. During the summer, their friendship became much more personal until it was like they were dating. Jennie should have realized something was wrong then.

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