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Children of the Dust Trivia Quiz

"Children of the Dust" is Louise Lawrence's powerful novel of hope and rebirth in the aftermath of a nuclear war.

A multiple-choice quiz by Rowena8482. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Rowena8482

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
273,451

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
197

Question 1 of 10

1. As the book opens, Sarah's teacher tells the class to run home as the first bombs have fallen and nuclear attack is imminent. Where does he say the first bombs fell? Hint

New York and Beijing

Stockholm and Paris

Hamburg and Leningrad

Washington and Moscow

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Question 2 of 10

2. One of the hardest things Sarah's family have to do is lock their dog outside when they barricade the house to prepare for the fallout. What is his name? Hint

Buddy

Bumper

Buster

Bundle

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Question 3 of 10

3. As her last act, Sarah takes her half sister Catherine to the only man left in the area who is "set up" to live, with a farm and water supply. What is his name? Hint

Thomas

Johnson

Jones

Roberts

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Question 4 of 10

4. Sarah's father Bill gets a place in a shelter because he stops to give Erica, a scientist, a lift there. What is her job specialty? Hint

Cellular cloning

Agronomy

Doctor of medicine

Bioweapons

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Question 5 of 10

5. After three years, Bill and Erica have a daughter in the shelter. What does Bill name her?

Answer: (One Word - 7 letters)

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Question 6 of 10

6. When Bill leaves the bunker, what is his 'mission' in the outside world? Hint

Find fuel dumps

Bring back the cattle

Look for surviving people

Check the water in the River Avon for radioactivity

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Question 7 of 10

7. What are the mutations that allow people outside the bunker to survive in the changed conditions after the War? Hint

Scaly skin and nictating membranes

Furry skin and white eyes with tiny pupils

Dark skin and extra digits

Blue skin and silver eyes

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Question 8 of 10

8. The last part of the story is told by Bill's grandson. What is his name? Hint

Saul

Stephen

Simon

Sebastian

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Question 9 of 10

9. When Bill's grandson asks Laura what her community build, in an attempt to make her feel inferior, what does she reply? Hint

Cathedrals

Community

Nothing

Life

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Question 10 of 10

10. Right at the end of the book, Laura's people are referred to as what species? Hint

Homo Mutantis

Homo Superior

Homo Genetica

Homo Sapiens

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. As the book opens, Sarah's teacher tells the class to run home as the first bombs have fallen and nuclear attack is imminent. Where does he say the first bombs fell?

Answer: Hamburg and Leningrad

Sarah runs the two miles to her home in twenty minutes, and by the time she arrives the BBC radio station has reported the first bomb dropping on London and fallen silent...

2. One of the hardest things Sarah's family have to do is lock their dog outside when they barricade the house to prepare for the fallout. What is his name?

Answer: Buster

The last thing Sarah sees as she boards and tapes the last window, is Buster looking in at her with his big brown eyes.

3. As her last act, Sarah takes her half sister Catherine to the only man left in the area who is "set up" to live, with a farm and water supply. What is his name?

Answer: Johnson

Catherine has escaped radiation sickness so far, and once her step mother and brother have succumbed and Sarah knows she herself is dying, she needs to find someone to look after Catherine and give her a chance to live. Johnson takes Catherine in, and Sarah leaves her with him and goes home to die.

4. Sarah's father Bill gets a place in a shelter because he stops to give Erica, a scientist, a lift there. What is her job specialty?

Answer: Cellular cloning

Erica Kowlanski is "a leading authority in the cellular cloning of animal and vegetable proteins." Her work gets her a reserved place in the Government fall-out shelter, and because Bill drives her there he is allowed in too and thus survives the attack.
He knows it is pointless to head home because it is just too late and resigns himself to the loss of his family.

5. After three years, Bill and Erica have a daughter in the shelter. What does Bill name her?

Answer: Ophelia

Bill names her Ophelia to remind him of the Shakespearian plays he used to lecture on in his work as a University lecturer.

6. When Bill leaves the bunker, what is his 'mission' in the outside world?

Answer: Bring back the cattle

Bill goes with an expedition from the bunker who are sent to bring back all the cattle belonging to the small community led by Johnson in his old home.
Bill and Ophelia are astounded to find Catherine there, still alive, and a mother of one surviving child by Johnson. Catherine gives birth to another child which survives while Bill and Ophelia are there.

7. What are the mutations that allow people outside the bunker to survive in the changed conditions after the War?

Answer: Furry skin and white eyes with tiny pupils

Catherine's daughters Lilith and Allison are the first babies born with the furry skin and white eyes with tiny pupils. They are adapted to the increased untra-violet light and radiation in the atmosphere and from them the new population spreads and begins to rebuild a meaningful society.

8. The last part of the story is told by Bill's grandson. What is his name?

Answer: Simon

Simon is Ophelia's son. On a trading mission to the outside he is injured and taken in by the community so they can help him. Catherine is still alive, although she is old and known as Blind Kate. When she asks Simon if he knows Bill or Ophelia, Simon lies and says no, even when he realises Kate is his aunt.

9. When Bill's grandson asks Laura what her community build, in an attempt to make her feel inferior, what does she reply?

Answer: Cathedrals

Laura and her people can harness the power of their minds. They have telepathy and psycho-kinesis to help them, and have gliders to fly, and have built a beautiful new Cathedral at Timperley.

10. Right at the end of the book, Laura's people are referred to as what species?

Answer: Homo Superior

Simon realises that Laura and her kind are perfectly equipped to live in the new world and rebuild society in a different pattern than it was before the bombs fell.

Source: Author Rowena8482

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