Pet Sematary Trivia

1. In the title "Pet Sematary", the second word is obviously spelled wrong. What is the correct spelling?

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Answer: cemetery

The word "Sematary" in the title of the book seems to be spelled the way a child might spell it, since the pet cemetery was made by the children of the town. Here are a couple of inscriptions that the children wrote on the gravestones in the cemetery. "SMUCKY THE CAT, HE WAS OBEDIANT" 1971-1974 GEN. PATTON (OUR! GOOD! DOG!)

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Answer: 1983

Stephen King's novel was copy-written in 1983, but was actually written in the late 1970s; King wasn't sure the world was ready for such a novel.

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Answer: 1983

This is the only book that King himself believed was too frightening to be published.

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Answer: Mercurochrome

Like most children Ellie didn't want Louis to use the Mercurochrome on her cut, and Louis was itching to smack her.

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Answer: Jud Crandall

Jud Crandall lives across the street and came over to help when Gage got stung by a bee.

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Answer: Doctor

Louis starts his first day of work at the university medical center and things immediately take a turn. A local student, having been hit by a car and impaled in the skull by a tree branch, is brought to the ward and there's no chance of his survival. While others frantically try to deal with the situation, Louis is with the boy, Victor Pascow, while he dies. The boy's final words are concerning since he cryptically claims that the pet sematary isn't the real cemetery. That night, Louis has what appears to be a prophetic dream in which Victor arrives at his house and leads him through the woods to the pet sematary, claiming that "your destruction and the destruction of all you love is very near." When Louis wakes up the next morning, he finds that the foot of the bed is littered with dirt and pine needles.

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Answer: both of these

Jud told Louis two different stories about how his dog had died. When Judd first took Louis and his family to see the pet cemetery, he said that his dog had "died of old age in 1914, the year the Great War begun". Later Jud told Louis that his dog had died when the dog was ten years old. He said the dog had been chasing a rabbit and had gotten tangled up in barbed wire, and the wound had gotten infected, causing the dog's death.

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Answer: University of Maine

During the late '70s, King taught a class in the literature of the fantastic.

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Answer: He was stung by a bee

As soon as Gage was stung by a bee, Jud Crandall came to their aid. That's when his character was introduced, and when Louis thought he should've been his father.

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Answer: Old MacDonald

"We sang 'Old MacDonald' Mommy! Daddy! we sang 'Old MacDonald'! Same one as in the Carstairs Street School!"

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Answer: Doctor

Louis is an MD who will be working at the campus infirmary.

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Answer: He's hit by a car

Louis, thinking logically, pins the recent forest walk on sleepwalking brought on by emotional trauma and he puts the event behind him. He is, however, forced to face the reality of mortality soon after when, on Halloween, Norma has what appears to be a heart attack. Fortunately, Louis is able to attend to her immediately and she makes a recovery soon after. Rachel takes the kids to Boston to visit her parents over Thanksgiving and Louis, staying back in Maine, is the only one around when Church, Ellie's cat, is hit by a car on the road out front. Jud informs him and insists that they bury it that night up at the pet sematary, but instead of simply digging a hole where they visited earlier in the year, Jud takes him up over the seemingly treacherous pile of deadfall circling the site and brings him to the actual burial site where the Micmac tribes brought their bodies to repay him for saving Norma. Louis has to dig through stony ground, but eventually he has a grave for Church that he can be satisfied with. He piles a cairn of stones atop the spot and they return home soon after, both exhausted with the interesting trip. Church returns the next day.

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Answer: Maine

The Creeds moved to Maine so Louis would have a better job in the medical field.

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Answer: Victor Pascow

As soon as he died under Louis's care, he told Louis that the barrier between the Pet Sematary and the Indians' burial ground was not meant to be crossed, and that a man's heart is stonier.

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Answer: bag of flour

Louis knocked off the bag of flour and while cleaning reflected on the argument and the complete difference of opinion he and his wife shared on the subject of death.

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Answer: Winston Churchill & winston churchill

Ellie named her cat Winston Churchill but calls him Church for short.

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Answer: baking soda

Jud with his fancy accent states: "Got t'get the stinga out 'n put some bakin soda on't. 'T'll go daown."

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Answer: The Micmacs

They stopped burying their dead companions when the burial ground became sour.

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Answer: beyond

Victor Pascow spoke this line to Louis when he came back to warn Louis about the Micmac burial ground.

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Answer: Neutered

Louis had him neutered in hopes of keeping him from being run down in the road.

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Answer: Her sister choked to death when Rachel was eight years old.

Rachel's sister Zelda had spinal meningitis. She was kept in the back bedroom of the family home, and she became meaner as her condition got worse. Her body became all shrivelled and hunched up, and she was in constant pain. She choked to death one night when Rachel was alone in the house with her.

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Answer: Missy

Missy Dandridge watches over the children many times in the novel. She is terribly filled with grief when one of the children die.

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Answer: Orinco

This is also the kind of truck that Louis thought ran over Church earlier in the book.

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Answer: friend

Although Louis's tired mind translated the word spoken by Pascow to mean something similar to friend, technically Pascow didn't say friend.

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Answer: It uses up a lot of animals

Jud warned the Creeds about the road because the trucks drive so fast.

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Answer: Cocoa Bears

After Gage dies, Louis is stricken with grief. Though he isn't hungry, he sits down to a bowl of his son's favorite cereal, Cocoa Bears.

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Answer: Afternoon visiting hours

Irwin Goldman got a punch to Louis' face and kicked him in the ground. Louis got up and pushed him onto his son's coffin, nearly showing Gage's devastated face.

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Answer: Friday

Church returned home snipped on the Friday of Louis's first full week of work.

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Answer: He was hit and killed by a truck

Gage was playing 'run from daddy' and was hit by a truck.

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