Quiz - Novels Set in Schools

2. Which famous writer does NOT appear in Tobias Wolff’s Old School?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Robert Frost
D) Ayn Rand

3. Which title character is a stonemason determined to be accepted into university?
A) Emma Woodhouse
B) Jude Fawley (the Obscure)
C) Emma Bovary
D) Adam Bede

4. Gene and Finny were best friends at the Devon School in which author’s 1959 novel?
A) John Knowles, A Separate Peace
B) Curtis Sittenfield, Prep
C) R. K. Narayan, The English Teacher
D) Heinrich Mann, Professor Unrat

5. Where is Nicholas Nickleby employed as the schoolmaster’s assistant?
A) Calvin Coolidge High
B) Christminster University
C) Dotheboys Hall
D) Gravesend Academy

6. A sign at St. Oswald’s Grammar School angers the narrator of Joanne Harris’s Gentlemen and Players. What does it say?
A) “NO TRESPASSERS”
B) “A GOOD SCHOOL”
C) “THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE”
D) “CARPE DIEM”

7. Abel Grey investigates a mystery at the prestigious Haddan School in The River King, by Alice Hoffman. What happened at the school?
A) The freshmen fought with students from the Xavier Institute
B) A teacher was shot dead in the Sports Pavilion
C) A riot followed the Chalk Team’s loss to Gryffindor
D) A student was found drowned in Haddan River

8. In addition to the main character, which pair makes up the trio in Rudyard Kipling’s Stalky & Co.?
A) Henry and Bunny
B) Beetle and M’Turk
C) Natasha and Flan
D) Tom and Flashman

9. In which book does Jodi Picoult portray a tragedy set in Sterling High School?
A) Handle with Care
B) The Tenth Circle
C) Nineteen Minutes
D) We Need to Talk about Kevin

10. Navana Currimbhoy’s debut, Miss Timmins’ School for Girls, was published in June 2011. What is the setting of this murder mystery?
A) A residential school for organ-donor clones in East Sussex, England
B) A Catholic prep school where the students hold an annual chocolate sale
C) A junior high school where Mrs. Kitteridge used to teach math
D) A British boarding school in the hills of western India

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