Anastasia Krupnik Trivia Quiz

Answer: Myron and Katherine

Myron and Katherine Krupnik are Anastasia's parents.

Answer: Sam

'She had laid the sheet of paper on the baby, on top of the white blanket that covered the little mound of his body and curled up legs...The paper said: 'Someone Special: Sam.''

Answer: to keep the radioactivity out of her brain

''Yeah, that was neat. She said she always wore that bowl when she went out because it kept radioactivity from getting into her brain. She was going to take me home and we were going to live together and she said she would teach me to avoid all the filth and danger in the world. She needed me to help her wash the doorknobs in her apartment. She had to do them all three times a day.''

Answer: Ruth

''He calls me Ruthie. Ruthie with the red, red hair. Isn't that silly?' Anastasia looked at her grandmother's white hair. She felt sad, even though it was Christmas. 'No,' she said. 'It isn't silly.''

Answer: 92

'Anastasia's grandmother was ninety-two and lived in a nursing home...She made Anastasia feel sad, and scared. Who needed THAT?'

Answer: Washburn Cummings

''Well,' said Anastasia finally, 'wouldn't you like to know whom it is that I'm in love with?' 'Who,' said her father. 'Use the nominative in that instance.' 'Who it is,' Anastasia corrected herself. 'Who it is, is Washburn Cummings.''

Answer: she didn't like the idea of having to confess her sins

''You just go to the church and confess your sins.' 'I won't have to do that part. Because I don't have any sins.' 'You do, too...You told me you stole Mary Ellen Bailey's cupcake out of her lunchbox last week.' 'A cupcake? That's a SIN?...If I'm a Catholic I have to confess about a cupcake?' Jennifer nodded. 'And also if you think bad thoughts about anyone...You would have to say that you were sorry.'... 'Even if I'm not?' Jennifer looked a little embarrassed. 'Well,' she said, 'if you're a good Catholic, you really will be sorry.''

Answer: making lists

Answer: Mr. Belden (at the drugstore)

Answer: Wordsworth

'Dr. Krupnik lit his pipe. 'Today we will continue with Wordsworth.''

Answer: futility of life

'A heavyset boy with very curly hair had his head down on his desk. he raised his head and looked around with half-open eyes. 'Futility of life,' he said. There was a long silence. Finally Dr. Krupnik said, 'Do you want to adda nything to that, Wilder?' 'No.' 'I find it fascinating, Wilder, that you have selected futility of life to be the theme of the work of, so far, Pope, Gray, Cowper, Blake, and Burns. Now Wordsworth, too?' 'Yeah,' said Wilder.'

Answer: Jennifer

'Right now her name was Jennifer Elizabeth MacCauley. But one of these days, she said, she was changing her name to Jennifer Elizabeth Theresa MacCauley. That was because she was Catholic.'

Answer: czar

''Does anyone know a four-letter word for ruler?' he asked, going back to the crossword puzzle. 'King,' said Anastasia. 'That's ridiculous easy.' 'The New York Times wouldn't use king,' her father grumbled. ... 'Czar!' interrupted her father. 'I knew it couldn't be king. Not in The New York Times.''

Answer: Katherine

'The third book was her mother's favorite, probably because IT said, inside, 'For Katherine.''

Answer: Dorothy

'It made Anastasia feel very creepy to be talking to Mrs. Westvessel on the telephone. For some reason she didn't like to think of Mrs. Westvessel eating, or going shopping, ro watching television, or being asleep...She also didn't like to think of Mrs. Westvessel as having any first name except {Mrs.;} so it felt very creepy to hear the voice say, 'Anastasia, this is Dorothy Westvessel.''

Answer: liver

''You know what?' said Anastasia, after a moment. 'There's absolutely nothing left on my Things I Hate list except liver, for pete's sake. I guess I'll always hate liver.''

Answer: trumpet player, basketball player

''You guys know,' she said, 'how sometimes maybe someone is a great musician or something - well, maybe he plays the trumpet or something really well - and then maybe he has a kid, and it turns out the kid isn't any good at ALL at playing the trumpet?...Well, suppose a guy is a terrific basketball player. Maybe he plays for the Celtics and he's almost seven feet tall.

Then maybe he has a kid, a little boy, and maybe the little boy WANTS to be a great basketball player. But he only grows to be five feet tall. So he can't be any good at basketball, right?''

Answer: Sputnik

'Robert Giannini stood in front of the class and read: I have a dog whose name is Spot. He likes to eat and drink a lot. When I put water in his dish, He laps it up just like a fish. Anastasia hated Robert Giannini's poem. Also, she thought it was a lie. Robert Giannini's dog was named {Sputnik;} everyone in the neighborhood knew that.'

Answer: Perpetua

''Perpetua,' she said, reading from the list. 'Anastasia Perpetua Krupni. I like that.''

Answer: tries a hairstyle similar to his

'In the morning she unbraided all the pigtails, combed it up instead of down, and looked into the mirror in amazement. It was as much like Washburn Cummings's hair as shoulder-length bright yellow hair could possibly be.'