"Dear John" by Nicholas Sparks Quiz

Answer: John Tyree

The narrator and main character's full name is John Tyree. Since he has a boring life, he decides to join the army. While on leave back home in Wilmington, North Carolina, he meets a girl and falls in love with her.

Answer: Lynn

John falls in love with Savannah Lynn Curtis, while on leave in Wilmington, North Carolina. Their relationship is what the whole novel is based on.

Answer: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

She goes to UNC, Chapel Hill, to get her degree in special education. John visits her there on his second leave.

Answer: Asperger's

Savannah thinks that John's father, who is always quiet, has no social life, and likes routine, has Asperger's disease. She gives John a book about it, and he is offended because she thinks that. As the story progresses, John comes to realize that she was right.

Answer: Alan

Alan is Tim's younger brother, who has autism. Tim has always taken very good care of him, and Alan looks up to Tim very much.

Answer: Tim

Contrary to what most people think while reading the book, Savannah marries Tim. After John re-enlists in the Army after September 11, 2001, she becomes discouraged and realizes that Tim needs her, especially after the death of his parents and with taking care of Alan. Tim has always been like a big brother to her, and she has always loved him, and she just can't wait forever for John.

Answer: coins

John's father has collected coins ever since his father (John's grandfather) got him started. When John was a boy, he and his father would travel around the country, looking for different and unique coins. When John's father dies, John finds the coin collection, worth many, many thousands of dollars, and sells it so that Tim can get special treatment for his life-threatening skin cancer.

He does this because he likes Tim, and he wants Savannah, his true love, to be happy.

Answer: Germany

John is stationed in Germany. His home town, and where he meets Savannah, is Wilmington, and he had to fight in Kosovo and Baghdad.

Answer: 0

John and Savannah never have any children anytime throughout this book. Although they did make love one time, they never got married or had any kids.

Answer: 23

When John first met Savannah in Wilmington, he was 23 years old and she was 21. John feels like he will always be 23 and Savannah will always be 21, because he loved that year with her so much.

Answer: False

John has never met his mother. Although his father never talked about her, John knew that his mother hadn't been prepared for motherhood, and left his father when John was less than a year old.

Answer: Shrimp Shack

John takes Savannah to the Shrimp Shack, his favorite restaraunt in Wilmington. Although it is very run-down, it has delicious food. They eat cold peel-and-eat shrimp while they're there.

Answer: Building houses for Habitat for Humanity

Savannah is in Wilmington with Tim and other people from UNC, building two houses for Habitat for Humanity. She tells John that she has built houses for Habitat for Humanity during every summer for as long as she can remember.

Answer: Her purse

When John first sees Savannah on the pier in Wilmington, she is there with a few of her friends. She sets her purse up on the railing, and one of her friends knocks it off into the water. She begins to panic, because all of her money for the trip is in that purse, but none of her friends are willing to jump in to get it. John dives in to get it, and brings it back to shore.

They walk back to her beach house together, and they begin to fall in love at that moment.

Answer: Midas

Savannah's favorite horse is Midas, a brown Arabian horse with white socks. One of her favorite activities is horseback riding, and she does it a lot on her parents' North Carolina farm. She moves her horse with her when she and Tim get married and move into his parents' house, since they were killed in a car accident.