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10 Question Literature Quiz: A Prayer For Owen Meany | Authors

I had to read this book for school. Here's a quiz about it.

A multiple-choice quiz by happygirl0278. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
happygirl0278

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
233,933

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
499

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Question 1 of 10

1. Why is Johnny "doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice"? Hint

He was the smallest person Johnny ever knew.

He is the reason Johnny believes in God.

He was the instrument of Johnny's mother's death.

He had a wrecked voice.

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Question 2 of 10

2. Where was Johnny baptized? Hint

The Episcopal Church

A nondenominational church

The Anglican Church of Canada

The Congregational Church

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who did Owen usually play in the Christmas pageant? Hint

Baby Jesus

The angel

A shepherd

Joseph

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who is/are Johnny's cousins? Hint

Hester

All answers are correct

Simon

Noah

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who is Johnny's father? Hint

Dan Needham

Uncle Albert

Mr. Meaney

Rev. Merrill

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Question 6 of 10

6. What did Owen have the basketball team do with Dr. Dolder's VW Bug? Hint

Move it to the other side of the school.

Paint it.

Put it on the stage in the great hall.

Destroy it.

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who is Owen Meany's girlfriend? Hint

Katherine

Hester

Mary Beth

Lydia

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Question 8 of 10

8. What did Johnny's grandmother get that surprised Owen? Hint

A phone

A microwave

A dog

A television

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Question 9 of 10

9. What does Owen put on Johnny's mother's grave? Hint

The baseball

Flowers

A flashlight

The armadillo

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Question 10 of 10

10. Where did Owen die? Hint

In the kitchen of Johnny's grandmother's house

Vietnam

In a bathroom

Gravesend

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Why is Johnny "doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice"?

Answer: He is the reason Johnny believes in God.

"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice-not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever know, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God." All the other answers are things that are true about Owen.

2. Where was Johnny baptized?

Answer: The Congregational Church

"I've been a pretty regular churchgoer. I used to be a Congregationalist-I was baptized in the Congregational Church."

3. Who did Owen usually play in the Christmas pageant?

Answer: The angel

Owen has been the angel most of the previous years and he doesn't want to do it so the Wiggins make Harold Crosby be the angel. This year Owen is Baby Jesus.

4. Who is/are Johnny's cousins?

Answer: All answers are correct

All three of them live at Sawyer Depot. Johnny goes up to visit them with his mother until she died.

5. Who is Johnny's father?

Answer: Rev. Merrill

Johnny finds this out at the end of the story when he goes back to Gravesend for Owen's funeral. This had been something that Johnny and Owen were trying to figure out for a while.

6. What did Owen have the basketball team do with Dr. Dolder's VW Bug?

Answer: Put it on the stage in the great hall.

The basketball team got the car onto the stage perfectly intact. When the faculty tried to get it out of the great hall they completely destroyed it.

7. Who is Owen Meany's girlfriend?

Answer: Hester

At the end of the book Owen and Hester are living together. She is Johnny's cousin.

8. What did Johnny's grandmother get that surprised Owen?

Answer: A television

"YOUR GRANDMOTHER IS GETTING A TELEVISION?" Owen says this to Johnny when he finds out.

9. What does Owen put on Johnny's mother's grave?

Answer: A flashlight

He knew how much she didn't like the dark. He put it there so she wouldn't be scared.

10. Where did Owen die?

Answer: In a bathroom

Owen thought he was going to die in Vietnam, but he ended up dying in the U.S. He died because a bomb went off as he was trying to get it out a window.

Source: Author happygirl0278

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