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A Prayer for Owen Meany Multiple Choice Quiz | 15 Questions

This is the first of a series of quizzes on this excellent book by John Irving. Did you have to read this for school? Did you pay attention to all the details? There's only one way to find out.

A multiple-choice quiz by littlp. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
littlp

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
55,270

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
8 / 15

Plays
937

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Question 1 of 15

1. What is the first chapter titled? Hint

'The Armadillo'

'The Foul Ball'

'The Angel'

'The Little Lord Jesus'

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Question 2 of 15

2. Where was Johnny baptized ? Hint

Episcopalian Church

Anglician Church

Catholic Church

Congregational Church

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Question 3 of 15

3. Which church will Johnny have do his funeral service?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 4 of 15

4. Who was the Sunday School teacher at Christ Church, the Episcopal Church of Gravesend, New Hampshire?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 5 of 15

5. What did the Sunday School class like to do with Owen? Hint

pick him up and pass him around class

take his money

take his baseball cards

tease about his voice and small size

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Question 6 of 15

6. What was the name of Mr. Fish's dog?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 7 of 15

7. Who did John Wheelwright play football with while he was in Cambridge?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 8 of 15

8. What kind of business was Johnny's Uncle Alfred in? Hint

lumber

no business

granite

both businesses

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Question 9 of 15

9. What book did Own read before he was ten? Hint

History of Gravesend

A Tale of Two Cities

The Phantom of the Opera

the Bible

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Question 10 of 15

10. Where did Tabby (Johnny's mother) meet Dan? Hint

Who is Dan?

in high school

Boston and Main Railroad

Gravesend

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Question 11 of 15

11. What about Owen upset Mrs. Harriet Wheelwright the most? Hint

his parents

his size

his voice

his attitude

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Question 12 of 15

12. What did Mrs. Wheelwright wear while working in her rose garden? Hint

a prom dress

work clothes

cocktail dresses

nothing at all

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Question 13 of 15

13. Who baptized Johnny?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 14 of 15

14. Why did Owen change churches? Hint

'TO ESCAPE MY PARENTS'

because he wanted to be in the same Sunday School class as Johnny

because he wanted to

'TO ESCAPE FROM THE CATHOLICS'

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Question 15 of 15

15. Who founded Gravesend Academy? Hint

Rev. Wheelwright

God

Rev. Lewis Merrill

Rev. Emery Hurd

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is the first chapter titled?

Answer: 'The Foul Ball'

'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 knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in {God;} I am a Christain because of Owen Meany.'

2. Where was Johnny baptized ?

Answer: Congregational Church

He was confirmed in the Episcopalian Church. He joined the Anglican Church when he moved to Canada.

3. Which church will Johnny have do his funeral service?

Answer: Anglican Church

'When I die, I shall attempt to be buried in New Hampshire-alongside my mother-but the Anglican Church will perfomr the necessary service before my body suffers the indignity of trying to be sneaked through U.S. Customs.'

4. Who was the Sunday School teacher at Christ Church, the Episcopal Church of Gravesend, New Hampshire?

Answer: Mrs. Walker

'Our Sunday School teacher was a strained, unhappy-looking woman named Mrs. Walker. We thought this name suited her because her method of teaching involved a lot of walking out of class.'

5. What did the Sunday School class like to do with Owen?

Answer: pick him up and pass him around class

'Everyone could lift up Owen. We were very {careful;} we never dropped him...sometimes his change would fall out (in our faces). We always gave him his money back.'

6. What was the name of Mr. Fish's dog?

Answer: Sagamore

'...the only sagamore I knew was a neighbor's dog-a male labrador retriever named Sagamore (not, I think, for his Indian ancestery, but because of his owner's ignorance).'

7. Who did John Wheelwright play football with while he was in Cambridge?

Answer: Oliver Cromwell

'Wheelwright was a Cambridge {graduate;} he'd played football with Oliver Cromwell-whose estimation of Wheelwright (as a football player) was both worshipful and paranoid.'

8. What kind of business was Johnny's Uncle Alfred in?

Answer: lumber

'Although New Hampshire is called the Granite State, granite-building granite, curbstone granite, tombstone granite-came after {lumber;} it was never the booming business that lumber was.'

9. What book did Own read before he was ten?

Answer: History of Gravesend

Owen was a gifted child. They (Owen and Johnny) didn't have to read it until they were in high school.

10. Where did Tabby (Johnny's mother) meet Dan?

Answer: Boston and Main Railroad

The Boston and Main Railroad is where she supposedly met Johnny's father.

11. What about Owen upset Mrs. Harriet Wheelwright the most?

Answer: his voice

Even when she was old and couldn't remember her own grandson, when he imitated Owen's voice, she could remember that.

12. What did Mrs. Wheelwright wear while working in her rose garden?

Answer: cocktail dresses

'And if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in her rose garden, they were cocktail dresses that she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties.'

13. Who baptized Johnny?

Answer: his father

How ironic is that?

14. Why did Owen change churches?

Answer: 'TO ESCAPE FROM THE CATHOLICS'

'...the Catholics had committed an 'UNSPEAKABLE OUTRAGE'-that they had insulted his father and mother, irreparably.'

15. Who founded Gravesend Academy?

Answer: Rev. Emery Hurd

'...a follower of the original Wheelwright's orignal beliefs, a childless Puritan with an ability-according to Wall-for 'Oration on the advantages of Learning and its happy Tendency to promote Virtue and Piety.'

Source: Author littlp

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