Jodi Picoult's 'My Sister's Keeper' Quiz

Answer: He loves astronomy and names her after the Andromeda Galaxy

Anna's first donation to her sister was cord blood from her umbilical cord. She later had to donate both blood and bone marrow before at age thirteen being expected to donate her kidney to her now sixteen-year-old sister, whose own kidneys were failing. Anna and her family know that without a transplant Kate will die.

However, Anna hires a lawyer in order to become medically emancipated from her parents so that she can make the decision of whether or not to donate her kidney. Anna and Kate have an extremely close bond and are the best of friends but because of her commitments to Kate, Anna has had to give up doing the things she enjoys such as playing hockey.

Answer: Taylor

Kate was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia at the age of two. The first sign of this is a bruise which sits between her shoulder blades. She initially shakes her head when asked whether it hurts but when her older brother, Jesse, presses his thumb against it, Kate howls in response.

The morning after this happens, Kate sleeps longer than normal which leads Sara, her mother, to think about how her daughter has been tired lately although she puts it down to her being sniffly. Then when waking her daughter, she notices a string of bruises trailing down her spine. Sara takes Kate to a pediatrician thinking her daughter is anemic but after he gives her a blood test, they are sent to the oncology ward at the hospital for further tests. After further blood tests she is shown to have leukemia. Kate is constantly in and out of hospital after this causing her attention which she doesn't enjoy.

She meets Taylor at the age of fourteen but he sadly passes away after they go to the hospital's prom for sick children together. Kate isn't told of his death for a month afterwards.

Answer: Campbell is epileptic and Judge is a seizure dog

The three incorrect answers which I have supplied were all used by Campbell during the novel as reasons why he has a service dog. It isn't until almost the end of the novel that he does reveal the truth. He only does this because he has a seizure during the trial.

After discovering why Campbell needs Judge, Anna asks him whether he took on her case because like her, he knows what it is like not to have control over your body. Campbell agrees to work for Anna pro bono even though he is not usually a charitable man. Anna however, doesn't believe that he can work for free so Campbell suggests that she polish his doorknobs for him. Throughout the novel there is a subplot concerning Campbell and a previous girlfriend of his Julia Romano who is Anna's guardian ad litem which mean she has been appointed to represent the best interests of the child, in this case Anna. Julia and Campbell had a relationship prior to the book's plot and by the end have resumed their relationship.

Answer: Janet

Isobel, who is also referred to as Izzy returns to live with her sister because Janet breaks up with her after seven years because she decides that she is not gay after all. Isobel is the older of the twins by three minutes but Julia tends to take care of her and deals with everything which is upsetting her, whether it is the teasing of their older brothers or the ending of a relationship. Isobel dislikes Campbell due to the way in which his relationship with Julia ended the first time around.

Answer: Dan

Jesse feels that he has been neglected by his parents because of the attention which they give to Kate because of her illness. Throughout his life, he has been given guilt gifts from them because Kate and Anna were usually given cool things during Kate's medical episodes which would lead Sara and Brain to feeling guilty for not giving him anything. Jesse takes Dan with him when he sets fire to a shed which he believes to be empty.

However, once he has set it alight Dan becomes distressed as he tells Jesse that the shed was where Rat lived.

Although Jesse initially believed Rat to be a rodent, he soon realises that it is a person who he drags out of the burning building. Brain, a firefighter, later discovers that it is Jesse who is behind a series of fires. Along with being a pyromaniac, Jesse also takes drugs and steals cars.

Answer: Dr. Chance

Although his name initially puts Sara off, Doctor Harrison Chance is with Kate from the beginning of her treatment. It is Dr. Chance who suggests many of the different treatments which Kate endures throughout the book including the arsenic therapy. In the epilogue, Kate mentions that Dr. Chance doesn't understand how she has gone eight years without a relapse but that he puts it down to a combination of ATRA (all-trans retinoic acid) and arsenic therapy but Kate believes that it is because somebody had to die and that Anna took her place.

Answer: Thanks

In the court room, Anna reveals to the courtroom that she was convinced by someone to file the lawsuit in order to emancipate herself medically from her parents. When pressed further she reveals it to be Kate. She later corrects herself to say that Kate did not ask her to file the lawsuit but that she asks Anna to kill her. Campbell then asks her whether or not she loves her sister to which Anna replies 'of course'.

She tells the court that she believed this to be what Kate wanted but that it was also what she wanted.

After further questioning on the subject, Anna reveals that after she told Kate she thanked her.

Answer: Brian

Just before the accident occurs Campbell and Anna are talking in his car. She mentions that during the trial he said that she'll be amazing in ten years time and she wants to know whether or not he actually believes that. Anna then goes on to describe all the things she's wanted to be growing up before mentioning the only constant. In ten years time, she wants to be Kate's sister.

As a firefighter Brian is called out to the accident which ultimately causes Anna's death, just as it is Brain who switches off the machines which were keeping her alive. While he does this Sara has her hand on Anna's chest, rubbing the skin in small circles. As he has power of attorney over Anna's medical decisions it is Campbell who makes the decision for Anna's organs to be used for donation.

Answer: Kate

The prologue is written in a way to make the reader believe it is Anna but it is later revealed to be Kate. It is because Anna exists that Kate continues to live and Kate doesn't want to continue living in the way that she is. In the prologue, Kate describes her memory of being three years old and trying to kill her sister and how she often thought of the ways she could do it. She then says that she did not kill her sister, that her sister did it herself - that is what Kate tells herself.

The prologue and epilogue are the only segments of the book which Kate narrates.

Answer: Policeman

Initially the transplant which Kate receives when Anna dies makes her very sick and it does seem like the transplant may have failed, but then she begins to take the long road towards recovery. As narrator of the epilogue, Kate reveals that she has not had a relapse in eight years.

As well as this she tells the reader how after Anna's death, Brain started to drink heavily and that he had to claw his way out of the bottle. Jesse straightened his life out and graduated from police academy and after a year he got a citation from the major for his role in a drugs bust and Kate herself is working as a dance teacher.

She also reveals that Campbell and Julia got married but that the Fitzgeralds no longer have anything to do with them because it was too hard.