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Quiz about Books Through Teenagers
Quiz about Books Through Teenagers

Books Through Teenagers Trivia Quiz

I give you a description of a book from the point of view of a teenage boy or girl. You give me the book. Less information is supplied each time, so it gets harder.

A multiple-choice quiz by notheridesbus. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
notheridesbus
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
277,008
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
10 / 15
Plays
677
Question 1 of 15
1. "So there's this guy, and, like, he did something bad, and, like, they put him in the cold and he doesn't want to fall down something? And he keeps stealing tar? And they have Bibles but they don't? And the soup, like, sucks?"

Name the book. Hint


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Question 2 of 15
2. "Yeah, man, I just finished reading it. It was so weird! He's the only one, and they keep trying to get him! And one of them thinks the guy's gay! And then one of them lies to him and they fall in love and they kill him!"

Name the book. Hint


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Question 3 of 15
3. "It's barely, like, a book! The guy just has to leave so he goes to New York! And he hires a prostitute and she beats him up and his brother is dead but his sister is alive and he smokes a lot!"

Name the book. Hint


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Question 4 of 15
4. "So there are these people, right? And they get on a train? And the guy dies? But the other guy figures it out? And only one couldn't have done it? And there was a movie? With like Michael York?"

Name the book. Hint


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Question 5 of 15
5. "There are these two kids and they phone and it doesn't work and they like the guy and then he dies. It was stupid, man."

Name the book. Hint


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Question 6 of 15
6. "So he bikes across the country? To see his dad? Father? And he doesn't?"

Name the book. Hint


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Question 7 of 15
7. "It's elementary! Ha ha! And the DOG did it! The dog! But there was a guy."

Name the book. Hint


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Question 8 of 15
8. "He's in a meat place? And he sees the bombs? And he keeps saying 'so it goes'?"

Name the book. Hint


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Question 9 of 15
9. "So he's a dog? And he gets, like, dragged! To California."

Name the book. Hint


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Question 10 of 15
10. "It's a bunch of stories? And there's one about a guy with no face? And this other guy kills himself because he's so happy or something?"

Name the book. Hint


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Question 11 of 15
11. "He was black and he didn't do it but he gets shot in the end anyway!"

Name the book. Hint


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Question 12 of 15
12. "He sins! SIN SIN SIN SIN SIN! And then he dies! But he looks good."

Name the book. Hint


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Question 13 of 15
13. "He's a midget and the other guy freezes!"

Name the book. Hint


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Question 14 of 15
14. "All the women die! They get killed by the men and they die!"

Name the book. Hint


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Question 15 of 15
15. "I don't want to live there! I'd be dead in a few years! I was too old!"

Name the book. Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "So there's this guy, and, like, he did something bad, and, like, they put him in the cold and he doesn't want to fall down something? And he keeps stealing tar? And they have Bibles but they don't? And the soup, like, sucks?" Name the book.

Answer: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' was written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1962 and concerns... well, the title says it all. Ivan is a prisoner in the Soviet gulag system ("the cold"- the prison was in a frigid part of Russia) who works building houses ("tar").

Other prisoners have Bibles, but claim not to, and the most severe form of punishment is being thrown in 'the hole' ("doesn't want to fall down something").
2. "Yeah, man, I just finished reading it. It was so weird! He's the only one, and they keep trying to get him! And one of them thinks the guy's gay! And then one of them lies to him and they fall in love and they kill him!" Name the book.

Answer: I Am Legend

 'I Am Legend' was written by Richard Matheson. It concerns Robert Neville, the last man on earth. Well, not the last person- the rest have been taken over by a vampire 'bug' that causes them to... well, it's descriptive enough. At night, he barricades himself inside his house, and they try to kill him, egged on by the shouts of Ben Cortman ("Come out, Neville!"- 'one of them thinks the guy's gay!')
3. "It's barely, like, a book! The guy just has to leave so he goes to New York! And he hires a prostitute and she beats him up and his brother is dead but his sister is alive and he smokes a lot!" Name the book.

Answer: The Catcher in the Rye

 If you don't know about JD Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye', you're missing out, so I won't even bother with information here. On the reading lists of high schools everywhere.
4. "So there are these people, right? And they get on a train? And the guy dies? But the other guy figures it out? And only one couldn't have done it? And there was a movie? With like Michael York?" Name the book.

Answer: Murder on the Orient Express

 "Murder on the Orient Express" was the most famous book by Agatha Christie, save maybe "Ten Little Indians" ("And Then There Were None" in America). It concerns the murder of a child abductor named Cassetti under mysterious circumstances on the Orient Express- of course, Hercule Poirot figures everything out in the end. And there was, indeed, a movie starring Michael York- and Albert Finney, Sean Connery and Ingrid Bergman too!
5. "There are these two kids and they phone and it doesn't work and they like the guy and then he dies. It was stupid, man." Name the book.

Answer: The Pigman

 "The Pigman" was written by Paul Zindel and concerns the plight of teenage friends John and Lorraine and their new friend the Pigman, an aging, generous man who does indeed die of a heart attack (or a broken heart, depending on your interpretation) at the end of the book. It is extremely popular in school curriculums.
6. "So he bikes across the country? To see his dad? Father? And he doesn't?" Name the book.

Answer: I Am The Cheese

 "I Am the Cheese" was written by Robert Cormier and concerns the drive of a young boy through a long distance to meet his father, interspersed with some kind of interviews concerning his psychological state. It is a great young adult thriller, and is also popular in schools.
7. "It's elementary! Ha ha! And the DOG did it! The dog! But there was a guy." Name the book.

Answer: The Hound of the Baskervilles

 "The Hound of the Baskervilles" was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is one of the popular Sherlock Holmes books. In it, a family (the Baskervilles) has a curse placed on them involving a dog which ends up killing one of their own.
8. "He's in a meat place? And he sees the bombs? And he keeps saying 'so it goes'?" Name the book.

Answer: Slaughterhouse-Five

 "Slaughterhouse-Five" is the most popular novel by Kurt Vonnegut and is set around the life of soldier Billy Pilgrim, who does indeed see the Dresden bombing from the inside of a slaughterhouse and travels to a different planet called Tralfamadore, where the expression used when someone dies is "So it goes".
9. "So he's a dog? And he gets, like, dragged! To California." Name the book.

Answer: White Fang

 "White Fang" was written by Jack London and is about a dog (written almost anthropomorphically) called White Fang who is raised in the wild and eventually is brought to San Francisco, where he is tamed into a city dog.
10. "It's a bunch of stories? And there's one about a guy with no face? And this other guy kills himself because he's so happy or something?" Name the book.

Answer: Nine Stories

 "Nine Stories" was written by JD Salinger, and one of its most famous stories was called "The Laughing Man", a story within a story about a man with a hideously deformed face. Other stories include "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut and "For Esme - with Love and Squalor". Seymour Glass kills himself in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish".
11. "He was black and he didn't do it but he gets shot in the end anyway!" Name the book.

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

 "To Kill a Mockingbird" was the only novel by Harper Lee. In it, lawyer Atticus Finch is assigned to defend accused rapist Tom Robinson, who is black. He is found guilty although he is clearly innocent, and is eventually shot while trying to escape from prison. It has often been rated the top American book of the 20th century, as in an award bestowed upon it by the librarians of America.
12. "He sins! SIN SIN SIN SIN SIN! And then he dies! But he looks good." Name the book.

Answer: The Picture of Dorian Gray

 "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was written by Oscar Wilde, and concerns a young man (Dorian Gray) whose portrait disfigures every time he commits a sin, to the point where he dies eventually and the portrait along with him.
13. "He's a midget and the other guy freezes!" Name the book.

Answer: Cat's Cradle

 "Cat's Cradle" was also written by Kurt Vonnegut. Roughly, it concerns a protagonist who comes from a family of midgets, and whose father invented the substance 'ice-nine' that turns all water into ice.
14. "All the women die! They get killed by the men and they die!" Name the book.

Answer: The Stepford Wives

 "The Stepford Wives" was written by Ira Levin. In it, all the men in the community of Stepford kill their wives and turn them into robots (or occasionally, have the robots do the dirty work for them). It has been made into two famous film adaptations.
15. "I don't want to live there! I'd be dead in a few years! I was too old!" Name the book.

Answer: Logan's Run

 "Logan's Run" was written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson and concerns a society where everyone is exterminated at the age of 21. Some people try to escape from the society by 'running' outside of it, but they are usually killed by 'Sandmen', specialised police. Logan is a Sandman who eventually tries to run himself.
Source: Author notheridesbus

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