'Five Quarters of the Orange' by Joanne Harris Quiz

Answer: Fruit

Framboise's mother, Mirabelle, is a keen cook and each of her children is named for a fruit. 'Framboise' is French for 'raspberry'. Reinette, her older sister, is named after a variety of greengage and her brother, Cassis, is named after the French word for 'blackcurrant'. Each fruit is also associated with a different recipe: blackcurrant cake, raspberry liqueur and greengage tart. Framboise herself has two daughters with food-related names, Pistache ('pistachio') and Noisette ('hazelnut').

She owns a crêperie in Les Laveuses, the village where she lived as a child; the crêperie is called Crêpe Framboise, after the house special, a crêpe with raspberry coulis. Cassis is an alcoholic, and is dead by the time the present day section of the story takes place, while Reinette is mentally ill and in an institution.

Answer: She gets a migraine.

Whenever Mirabelle gets a migraine, she starts smelling oranges and asks the children if any of them have brought an orange into the house. Oranges are hard to come by, and Mirabelle refuses to buy them. Later in the book, the children hide a bit of orange peel in Mirabelle's pillow to make her think she has a migraine and take to her bed, leaving them free to play.

Answer: A giant pike

Old Mother is a notorious giant pike, who many anglers have tried and failed to catch. Local rumours claim she is cursed, and that she grants wishes to those who catch her. It is Framboise's ambition to catch her, and she regularly puts out traps in the local river. When people ask Framboise what her wish is, she says she'll know when the time comes.

Answer: Backfisch

Tomas Leibniz is a German soldier who gives Reinette and Cassis gifts, such as cigarettes and lipstick, in exchange for information. Framboise figures out something is up when she finds lipstick under Reinette's mattress, and Reinette and Cassis have to let her in on their secret.

They go into town with Framboise and meet two Germans in a cinema, one of whom is Leibniz. He and Framboise bond over their love of fishing, and he calls her 'Backfisch' throughout the story. 'Backfisch' means 'fried fish', but can also mean 'teenage girl'.

Answer: They want her to give them her mother's recipe book.

Yannick is Cassis' son, and Laure is his wife. They are the antagonists in the present day sections of the book. They want Framboise to give them her mother's recipes, but Framboise refuses, so they try to wear her down by getting Laure's brother Luc to set up his burger van outside Crêpe Framboise, while his friends drive their motorbikes around, play loud music and commit acts of vandalism on Framboise's house. Framboise does some detective work and discovers Luc is Laure's brother. Paul also shows Louis Ramondin, the chief of police, that Luc is cheating on his wife with Ramondin's teenage daughter. Ramondin sabotages Luc's burger van and arrests him, and locks him in his basement when Luc starts threatening Framboise.

Answer: To exchange goods for morphine

The Café de la Mauvaise Réputation, or La Rép for short, is a seedy café in the village which still exists in the present day. The local drunks hang out there, along with prostitutes, and later, the German soldiers start frequenting the place. Mirabelle claims to hate the place and warns her children never to go there, but she sneaks away at night to get morphine in various forms.

She exchanges food or alcohol for morphine, and even sells her jewellery. It is also heavily implied that Leibniz is one of the soldiers who gives Mirabelle morphine tablets.

Answer: She is raped by a German soldier.

The children sneak out to La Rep to meet Leibniz, who is playing there with his fellow soldiers (he plays the sax). The children hide behind a wall when Gustave Beauchamp, an old drunk, comes out of the cafe to urinate. One of the German soldiers, Schwartz, comes out with a prostitute, and they have sex against the wall. Cassis and Framboise start to make their way away from the café, but Reinette trips and is caught by the prostitute and Schwartz.

A couple of other soldiers join him and they hold Reinette down and tear off her blouse while Schwartz rapes her. Reinette runs off while Framboise is hiding in the bushes, and Beauchamp gets into an argument with the German soldiers. One of them shoots him dead. La Rep is vandalised, and Raphäel Crespin, the owner, branded a collaborator for allowing the Germans in.

Answer: That Leibniz will stay with her forever

After the events in La Rép, Reinette is crowned Harvest Queen at the local harvest festival, and Framboise runs away to meet Leibniz in the woods. Leibniz is worried because the SS are after him, due to Beauchamp's death and the black market activities, and tells Framboise they cannot meet anymore. Framboise is devastated, and begs Leibniz to stay with her.

They go down to the place where the traps are set, and Framboise realises she has caught Old Mother. The trap is stuck, so Leibniz goes into the water to free it.

Unfortunately, Framboise's wish comes true in the most horrifying way when Leibniz drowns. Cassis fishes his corpse out of the water. Cassis is frightened that the Germans will find out about them and Leibniz, so he shoots Leibniz's body in the head to make it look like he was executed, and they bury his uniform in a well.

Answer: They massacre everyone who was at La Rep on the night Gustave Beauchamp died.

Raphael Crespin abandons La Rép and a cache of weapons are discovered in the basement, making the Germans believe he was involved with the French Resistance. The ten people who were at La Rép the night when Reinette was raped and Beauchamp died are rounded up and shot against the wall of the local church. Mirabelle has been receiving poison pen letters accusing her and her children of collaborating with the Germans, and the villagers blame her for the massacre because she and her children were spared.

They start shunning the Dartigens and vandalising their house, and eventually a mob gather outside and set the house on fire. Mirabelle and the children escape through the back, but the mob are waiting and attack Mirabelle. A gunshot scares the mob away and the Dartigens escape through the Hourias' field.

The children later go to live with their aunt, while Mirabelle returns to Brittany.

Answer: Paul Hourias

In the present, Paul reveals that he sent the poison pen letters as an act of revenge against Mirabelle for shouting at him and calling him a cretin in front of her children because of his stammer. He had a crush on Reinette. Framboise also realises that it was Paul who fired the shot when the mob came to the Dartigens' house; he did it because he felt guilty about the poison pen letters going too far, and wanted to make amends. Paul tells Framboise it's time to stop running away, and the two kiss.