The Works of Lois Lowry Trivia Quiz

Answer: Oslo

Natalie suddenly panicked about whether to give the woman who gave her directions to Julie Hutchinson's a tip, but she turned away to the man who wanted to know if a telegram had come from Oslo.

Answer: Margaret

Margrete is also the name of the Danish queen right now, Dronning Margrete. Lise's full name, as said by Ellen, was Lise Margrete Johansen.

Answer: Indolent

Sweet-Ho was always good with words.

Answer: Four

Poochie, as well as being left-handed and using a right-handed glove, was almost blind without glasses. So it was pretty amazing he hit those four pitches at all.

Answer: 68

Stacy was furious that some 'pip-squeak reporter from People magazine' stole her story about Harrison Ledyard (she thought he was having an affair). Turned out he had just gotten married.

Answer: Michael Small

The dedication is: 'For Michael Small, good sport from People magazine.'

Answer: Yeast

Gertrustein was making bread and Sam asked for some yeast, since his mother liked the smell of baking bread. The perfume exploded a few hours later.

Answer: Analgesia

Steve is referred to more than once in the Anastasia books as obnoxious (like most seventh graders). In this book, he thinks up names that begin with 'Ana' and calls Anastasia by them.

Answer: Laurence Olivier

This hope, voiced in 'Anastasia on Her Own', is quickly crushed by Myron Krupnik, who informs her that Laurence Olivier is probably eighty years old if not dead.

Answer: Chinese

This is mentioned in 'Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst', during a discussion Anastasia is having with her mother about why Anastasia thinks Katherine Krupnik is weird and disgusting. Katherine brings up the subject of Anastasia's birthday with the restaurant. Anastasia asks, 'So what? Was there something in the sweet-and-sour pork that made you turn weird?'

Answer: Deinstitutionalized psychotics

Mrs. Bellingham, who is a world-class snob, was the inventor of the name 'the habitation of the great unwashed'. Anastasia gets in a lot of trouble for saying this at home.

Answer: Odd

Dr. Krupnik hates the word 'weird', which happens to be one of Anastasia's favorite words. Here is his list of synonyms for weird: Strange. Dreadful. Formidable. Ghastly. Demonical. Phantasmagorical. You must remember he is an English professor.

Answer: Henry Peabody

Here is Lois Lowry's dedication: 'This book and all the books in this series are fictional. I made them up. I made up the people. I made up the names. Honest. With that in mind, I would like to dedicate this one to several strangers: Dr. M. Krupnick from the University of Chicago.

His wife, Kathryn Krupnick. The Very Reverend Robert Giannini, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, St. Petersburg, Florida.'

Answer: Mr. Belden (at the drugstore)

Mr. Belden was first. Then boys, then liver, then pumpkin pie, then Mrs. Westvessel. Throughout the book all of these disappeared until the only thing Anastasia hated was liver (which she continues to hate throughout the series).

Answer: An amusement park

Tivoli is a place mentioned in 'Number the Stars', one of the major tourist attractions of Copenhagen (I've been there). During Annemarie's time, however, Tivoli was closed by the Nazis and partially burned. It was reopened later and rebuilt. Elsinore, or Helsingor, is where Hamlet is set, up the coast from Copenhagen.

Answer: Episcopalian

Paul told Natalie, when she had hit a dead end, to ask the Episcopal church where the Jeffries family had gone, saying that all rich families were Episcopalian. Turned out he was right (not about all rich people being Episcopalian, though). This led Natalie straight to her natural grandmother.

Answer: 11:22

The clock said, 11:22, the alarm was set for seven and the real time was 5:04. The date was also in a time warp (for then, {anyhow);} it said it was February 17th, 1997.

Answer: Doesn't say

He ate watching Roadrunner while Caroline fed the babies, washed the babies, and changed the babies' diapers.

Answer: Blue

She picked a 'blue dress, an old-timey style with pearl buttons up to the neck, where there was a tiny ruffle.' Rabble picked green with flowers.

Answer: Dorchester

Dorchester is a section in Boston. Henry took the T subway to get to modeling classes and invited Anastasia home to dinner with her, where Anastasia discovered that her family and the Peabodys had the same type of tea kettle.