Books By Beatrice Sparks Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1971

"Go Ask Alice" is the realistic diary of a 15-year old drug user. Throughout the book, she runs away from home twice, gets involved with the wrong crowd, and even lands in a institution. "Go Ask Alice" was published as "a real diary", but it was said to have been just a warning to teens during the rise of drug culture, and not based on fact.

Answer: 14

Like most of her books, "Annie's Baby" says it was edited by Beatrice Sparks and the author is an "anonymous teenager". In this book 14-year old Annie becomes involved with 16-year old Danny. When she discovers she is pregnant by him, her diary becomes her outlet for the confusion she feels about him and her life.

In the book, Annie even goes to visit Dr. Sparks to talk about her feelings.

Answer: Finding Katie

In "Go Ask Alice", the subject dies mysteriously of a drug overdose, even though she had been clean for some time. Nancy dies of AIDS in the diary of her life. In "Jay's Journal", he commits suicide after his two best friends die. Katie does not die at the end of "Finding Katie".

Answer: A substitute school teacher

Another book "edited" by Beatrice Sparks is "Treacherous Love", the diary of confused and victimized 14-year old Jennie. After her father leaves, Jennie's mother becomes depressed and distant. Jennie also become romantically involved with Mr. Johnstone, her substitute math teacher.

While she continues to love him, she also feels their relationship is wrong. Finally she learns that he never really loved her and had a history of becoming involved with underage girls.

Answer: False

"Almost Lost" is about a boy named Sammy who had lived on the streets for three months dealing with depression. Dr. Sparks helps Sammy regain his identity and feel wanted.

Answer: True

"Finding Katie" is the diary of a 16-year old who had once lived in a mansion in Hollywood, attended a private Catholic school, and had almost anything she wanted. However her father often beat her mother, and finally he takes Katie from home and leaves her in a run-down part of the city. Katie is found and taken into foster care.

Her diary tells of the events she experiences living with different families.

Answer: She has an eating disorder.

Kim is a college student who wants to be a gymnast. However she thinks she would perform better if she was skinnier, even though she is not overweight. Kim becomes bulimic, which eventually causes her to have worse health problems.

Answer: Go Ask Alice

"Go Ask Alice" was an international best seller, and it appeared as a made-for-TV movie in 1973. William Shatner plays the doomed girl's father.

Answer: Jay's Journal

Jay's parents still live together in "Jay's Journal". In the book "It Happened to Nancy" she lived with her mother and visited her father often. Annie had not seen her father since she was very young in her diary. In "Treacherous Love", Jennie's parents divorced when she is 14.

Answer: Kim: Empty Inside

Jay uses drugs frequently with his first girlfriend and friends who are teaching him witchcraft. He even steals prescription drugs from his father's pharmacy where he works. In "Treacherous Love", Jennie uses drugs with both her school friends and Mr. Johnstone. Sammy used drugs with the people he met on the streets in "Almost Lost".