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More science fiction than horror, this novel shows the citizens of Haven, Maine falling under the influence of an alien spacecraft buried in nearby woods.
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  "The Tommyknockers" - Stephen King   popular trivia quiz  
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Having just finished reading "The Tommyknockers", I thought I would try my luck with a quiz about it. Imagine my surprise when I found that, amongst the many Stephen King quizzes there was only one about this particular novel! So I created another ...
Average, 10 Qns, lucenad, Mar 20 07
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  'The Tommyknockers'    
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This quiz is about the book, 'The Tommyknockers', written by Stephen King. This quiz deals with the book, NOT THE MINI-SERIES. Anyways, play my game.
Easier, 10 Qns, Erykah_03, Jan 25 16
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The Tommyknockers Trivia Questions
1. Bobbi Anderson has an elderly dog called Peter. What breed is he?

From Quiz "The Tommyknockers" - Stephen King

Answer: Beagle

Peter is instantly afraid of the thing that Bobbi discovers in the woods - and rightly so! If Bobbie had heeded Peter's warning this would have been a very short story indeed ...

2. Who is the first person to discover the spaceship?

From Quiz 'The Tommyknockers'

Answer: Bobbi

3. Bobbi's best friend, Jim Gardener, has some resistance against the effects of the unearthed ship owing to the metal plate in his skull. When did he receive this head injury?

From Quiz "The Tommyknockers" - Stephen King

Answer: In a skiing accident

Thanks to a skiing accident in his teens, Gardener has some immunity to the poisoned air and the townspeople find it difficult to read his mind. Ev Hillman also has a metal plate in his head, as a result of a World War II injury. Other characters with 'metalwork' are also able to enter the town in relative safety.

4. In what town is the spaceship in?

From Quiz 'The Tommyknockers'

Answer: Haven

5. When we first meet Gardener, he is touring with the New England Poetry Caravan. Who is the tour's organiser?

From Quiz "The Tommyknockers" - Stephen King

Answer: Patricia McCardle

McCardle despises Gardener, but signs him onto the tour at the last minute to replace Bill Claughtsworth (who committed suicide). Despite the best efforts of his friend and fellow poet, Ron Cummings, Gardener disgraces himself at an after-reading party hosted by Professor Arberg.

6. What is the name of Bobbi's dog?

From Quiz 'The Tommyknockers'

Answer: Peter

7. What is the name of the Maine town where the story is set?

From Quiz "The Tommyknockers" - Stephen King

Answer: Haven

The town had four other names before it became Haven: Montville Plantation, Coodersville, Montgomery and Ilium.

8. What is the name of Bobbi's friend and lover?

From Quiz 'The Tommyknockers'

Answer: Gard

9. When Gardener senses Bobbi is in trouble, he hitchhikes from New Hampshire to Maine to try and help her. The last leg of his journey is courtesy of a farmer who tries to kill Gardener later in the story. What is the farmer's name?

From Quiz "The Tommyknockers" - Stephen King

Answer: Freeman Moss

After his 'becoming', Freeman is determined to eliminate Gardener to save the ship, even though he had liked him. Benton Rhodes is one of the unfortunate policemen who try to enter the town to investigate the explosion at the town hall. Beach Jernigan runs the town restaurant. Frank Spruce is a local farmer, but not the one who offers Gardener a lift.

10. What does the town constable, Ruth, collect?

From Quiz 'The Tommyknockers'

Answer: dolls

11. After leaving the town with his grandson, Hilly, Ev Hillman approaches David Bright of the Bangor Daily News. Ev had heard that Brown had reported on events from which other Stephen King story?

From Quiz "The Tommyknockers" - Stephen King

Answer: The Dead Zone

A bartender tells Ev that Bright had reported the story of John Smith who awoke from a coma with a psychic gift. According to the bartender, Bright "believed Smith had the sight."

12. What color was glowing inside Bobbi's shed?

From Quiz 'The Tommyknockers'

Answer: green

13. Butch Dugan enters the town with Ev Hillman on the day of Ruth McCausland's funeral. What happens to Dugan as a result of this ill-fated visit?

From Quiz "The Tommyknockers" - Stephen King

Answer: He returns home and shoots himself

Butch had gone into Bobbi's shed, but very little of him came out again. His memory was wiped and replaced with the drive to write a suicide note and shoot himself. Ev ends up as a kind of human battery in Bobbi's shed, along with her sister, Anne, and dog, Peter.

14. What would people have to wear if they went inside the ship?

From Quiz 'The Tommyknockers'

Answer: air masks

15. Yes or No. In the end, did Hilly ever see his little brother again?

From Quiz 'The Tommyknockers'

Answer: yes & y & yes

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