The Lovely Bones Quizzes

The Lovely Bones Quiz 1

1 What animal is inside the snow globe that Susie describes in the epigraph?
A polar bear

A dog

A person

A penguin
2 How does Mr. Harvey kill Susie?
He strangles her

He falls asleep on top of her

He uses a kitchen knife

He uses razor blades
3 What does Mr. Harvey keep in the dugout that Susie finds particularly strange?
Razor blades and shaving cream

Coca-cola

A book of sonnets

Shelves
4 Who is Susie's favorite teacher?
Principal Caden

Mrs. Delminico

Mr. Botte

Mrs. Dewitt
5 What is Susie wearing the day she dies?
A white nightgown

A green skirt and danskin tights

Her yellow elephant bellbottoms

One of Clarissa's dresses
6 What does Susie say repeatedly while Mr. Harvey rapes her?
"No"

"Stop"

"Please" and "Don't"

She just screams
7 What does Mr. Harvey use to gag Susie?
A hankerchief

The hat her mother made her

Her sock

Her glove
8 What grade is Susie in when she dies?
7th

8th

10th

9th
9 Who was Susie's best friend in life?
Holly

Ruth

Clarissa

Ray
10 Who is Susie's best friend in heaven?
Ruth

Mrs. Utemeyer

Franny

Holly
11 Why do the police think Susie is dead?
They found her body

They have her elbow

She has been missing too long

There is too much blood in the earth
12 How does Lindsey react when she finds out the police found Susie's elbow?
She storms to her room

She vomits

She cries

She screams
13 What book does the police find while they are searching the cornfield?
To Kill a Mockingbird

Othello

Moliere

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
14 Who identifies the book as a book that is read in Susie's grade?
Mrs. Stead

Ray Singh

Mrs. Dewitt

Mr. Botte
15 In heaven, Holly and Mrs. Utemeyer play a duet on which instruments?
Holly on horn and Mrs. Utemeyer on violin

Mrs. Utemeyer on horn and Holly on violin

Mrs. Utemeyer on piano and Holly on guitar

Holly on violin and Mrs. Utemeyer on cello
16 Who did Susie's soul "touch" as she was leaving earth?
Ruth Connors

Mr. Botte

Lindsey Salmon

Ray Singh
17 What does Ruth steal from Clarissa's locker?
Nothing

Clarissa's money

Pictures of Susie and Brian's weed

Pictures of Susie and Clarissa's weed
18 How old was Susie when she took the picture of her mother that is mentioned repeatedly throughout the novel?
12

11

10

14
19 Who is the first person to discover the photograph of Abigail after Susie's death?
Lindsey

Jack

Buckley

Abigail
20 When is the first time Susie accidentally "breaks" the Inbetween by appearing?
When Buckley sees Susie under the grandfather clock

When Ruth sees Susie by the sinkhole

When Lynn sees Susie by Buckley's fort

When her father smashes his model ships
21 Where does Mr. Harvey put Susie's body?
He buries it in the cornfield

In a safe in the sinkhole

He buries it in Connecticut

In a refrigerator in the sinkhole
22 What item of Susie's does Mr. Harvey keep?
An amber pendant

An eraser shaped like a cartoon

Her charm bracelet

Her Pennsylvania keystone charm
23 What is Mr. Harvey building in his yard when Jack Salmon offers to help?
A hole

A cave

A tent

A garden
24 How does Jack Salmon come to suspect that George Harvey murdered Susie?
Susie makes a geranium bloom as a sign that Mr. Harvey is guilty

Susie tells her father and he hears her

Jack finds concrete evidence that Mr. Harvey did it

He gets a feeling that Mr. Harvey did it
25 What is Mr. Harvey's dead wife's name?
Flora

He was never married

Leah

Sophie

Question 2: Read again the section below. How does the writer use language here to build tension and a sense of impending doom? Hint – consider the use of pathetic fallacy and the specific words used to describe Susie’s journey.

Nature is personified within this text, The snow was falling lightly, like a flurry of small hands...The tonne is dark and brooding. Winter is here and the colors are dark: grey and monotone, turning to black. Then we meet Mr. Harvey, the...

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Susie tells Ray that when he kisses her, she sees heaven. He asks her what it looks like.Susie says to him that if he makes love to her, she'll tell him. Susie realizes that she and Ruth have each been given a chance to possess what they have...

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Chapter 1 questions

1) “If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”

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The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

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