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SubText08 Quiz - NZ Authors

Question One: In 2004 Bernard Beckett wrote a book called ...

Romeo and Juliet
Malcolm and Juliet
Exodus
Genesis

Question Two: Fleur Beale's book I am not Esther is about a girl ...

who has a famous identical twin called Esther
named Tessa
who goes to live in a fundamentalist sect
who becomes a double agent - when she loses her memory she has difficulty reclaiming her identity

Question Three: Thunder Road was written by ...

Ted Dawe
Ken Catran
Craig Marriner
Margaret Mahy

Question Four: Gool by Maurice Gee is the sequel to ...

Cool
Under the Mountain
The Burning Boy
Salt

Question Five: Muffin McLay ...

's alway ready to play
Like a bundle of hay
Born in the month of May
All covered in clay

Question Six: Alex's surname in the four books by Tessa Duder is ..?

Swimmer
Archer
Butcher
Hamilton-Smythe

Question Seven: In the television series Maddigan's Quest, what is the name of the circus troop?

Maddigan's Fantastical Flight of Fancy
Maddigan's Folly
Maddigan's Fantasia
Maddigan's Friends

Question Eight: Which international award did Margaret Mahy win in 2006?

The Brothers Grimm Medal
The Nobel Prize for Literature
The Booker Prize
The Hans Christian Andersen Award

Question Nine: The Witi Ihimaera novel that the movie Whale Rider is based on was originally called

Driving Miss Paikea
The Whale Rider
Little Girl, Big Fish
Out of the Blue

Question Ten: In The Lion in the Meadow, what does the lion eat?

Small children
Apples
Sushi
Watermelon

Question Eleven: In The God Boy by Ian Cross, where did Jimmy Sullivan live?

Raggleton
Kaikoura
Tawa
Simpleton

Question Twelve: Ness, Ty, and Sophie are the names of three characters from which recent book?

The Ship-Wreck Soldier
The Nervous-Wreck Soprano
The Sea-Wreck Stranger
The Car-Wreck Survivor

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