Little Sisters in Literature Trivia Quiz

Answer: Amy

The March sisters, in order of oldest to youngest, are Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Amy is twelve at the start of the book. She has blonde hair and blue eyes and an interest in art.

"Little Women" is made of two parts. The first was published in 1868 and the second in 1869. It follows the lives of the four March sisters. The book had two sequels, "Little Men" in 1871 and "Jo's Boys" in 1886.

Answer: Scout

"To Kill a Mockingbird" was published in 1960 and was Harper Lee's only novel until the publication of "Go Set a Watchman" was published more than 50 years later. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. A movie based on it starring Gregory Peck came out in 1962.

It follows the lives of six-year-old Scout and her ten-year-old brother, Jem, as they grow up in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. The book deals with many serious topics, including racism and rape.

Answer: Primrose

The three books in "The Hunger Games" trilogy are "The Hunger Games" (2008), "Catching Fire" (2009), and "Mockingjay" (2010). They take place in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic version of North America. They follow the life of sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen as a revolution takes place. A movie based on "The Hunger Games" was released in 2012.

Primrose, also known as Prim, was twelve at the beginning of the series. She and Katniss have a very close relationship.

Answer: Dewey Dell

"As I Lay Dying" was published in 1930. It is the story of the Bundren family and their journey to bury their wife and mother, Addie, in the town of Jefferson. The book is narrated by fifteen different characters. The five Bundren siblings are Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman. All are the children of Anse except Jewel, who was the result of an affair. Dewey Dell was seventeen and dealing with an accidental pregnancy during the novel.

Answer: Phoebe

"The Catcher in the Rye" was published in 1951. It is the coming-of-age tale of sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield. Phoebe is ten. Holden also has an older brother named D.B. and a younger brother, named Allie, who died of leukemia when he was eleven.

Answer: Lindsey

"The Lovely Bones" was published in 2002. It tells of the death and afterlife of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon after she is murdered by a neighbor in 1973. She watches life on earth go on without her from heaven. She had two younger siblings, Lindsey, who was thirteen when she died, and Buckley, who was ten. A movie based on the book was released in 2010.

Answer: True

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was published in 1865, and its sequel, "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" came out in 1871. Both are stories about young Alice visiting the magical and strange Wonderland. Alice's older sister, whose name was never revealed in the books, is reading to Alice at the beginning of the first book.

Answer: Lucy

The Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, first appear in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", which was the first book in the series to be published in 1950. Their ages at the beginning were 13, 12, 10, and 8 respectively. The four children are magically transported to the country of Narnia, where they must fight evil and bring peace back to the land.

The other six books in the series are "Prince Caspian" (1951), "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" (1952), "The Silver Chair" (1953), "The Horse and His Boy" (1954), "The Magician's Nephew" (1955), and "The Last Battle" (1956).

Some movies have been released based on the books, including "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (2005), "Prince Caspian" (2008) and "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" (2010).

Answer: Ginny

The "Harry Potter" series is one of the best-selling book series of all time and has been made into a movie series starring Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger. The books follow the life of Harry Potter, as he and his friends fight an evil wizard named Voldemort.

The seven Weasley siblings, the children of Arthur and Molly, are Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny. Ginny is first seen briefly in the first book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", and later becomes a major character.

Answer: Anna

"My Sister's Keeper" was published in 2004. It tells the story of thirteen-year-old Anna as she sues her parents for medical emancipation so she does not have to donate one of her kidneys to her older sister, Kate, who is dying of leukemia. Anna had been genetically engineered to be born the perfect medical match for her sister.

In 2009, it was made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin, Sofia Vassilieva, and Abigail Breslin. The movie has some major differences from the book, though, including an alternate ending.