The Lovely Bones Quizzes

The Lovely Bones Quiz 1

By Rachel Younger · Edited by Elizabeth Weinbloom · Last reviewed December 30, 2010

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

A person

A dog

A polar bear

A penguin
2 How does Mr. Harvey kill Susie?

He falls asleep on top of her

He uses razor blades

He strangles her

He uses a kitchen knife
3 What does Mr. Harvey keep in the dugout that Susie finds particularly strange?

Coca-cola

A book of sonnets

Shelves

Razor blades and shaving cream
4 Who is Susie's favorite teacher?

Mrs. Dewitt

Principal Caden

Mrs. Delminico

Mr. Botte
5 What is Susie wearing the day she dies?

One of Clarissa's dresses

A green skirt and danskin tights

Her yellow elephant bellbottoms

A white nightgown
6 What does Susie say repeatedly while Mr. Harvey rapes her?

"Stop"

"No"

She just screams

"Please" and "Don't"
7 What does Mr. Harvey use to gag Susie?

Her sock

A hankerchief

The hat her mother made her

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

9th

10th

7th

8th
9 Who was Susie's best friend in life?

Holly

Ray

Clarissa

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

Holly

Franny

Mrs. Utemeyer

Ruth
11 Why do the police think Susie is dead?

They found her body

There is too much blood in the earth

She has been missing too long

They have her elbow
12 How does Lindsey react when she finds out the police found Susie's elbow?

She cries

She screams

She vomits

She storms to her room
13 What book does the police find while they are searching the cornfield?

Othello

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Moliere

To Kill a Mockingbird
14 Who identifies the book as a book that is read in Susie's grade?

Mrs. Stead

Ray Singh

Mr. Botte

Mrs. Dewitt
15 In heaven, Holly and Mrs. Utemeyer play a duet on which instruments?

Mrs. Utemeyer on piano and Holly on guitar

Holly on horn and Mrs. Utemeyer on violin

Holly on violin and Mrs. Utemeyer on cello

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

Mr. Botte

Ruth Connors

Ray Singh

Lindsey Salmon
17 What does Ruth steal from Clarissa's locker?

Clarissa's money

Pictures of Susie and Clarissa's weed

Pictures of Susie and Brian's weed

Nothing
18 How old was Susie when she took the picture of her mother that is mentioned repeatedly throughout the novel?

11

10

12

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

Jack

Abigail

Buckley

Lindsey
20 When is the first time Susie accidentally "breaks" the Inbetween by appearing?

When Ruth sees Susie by the sinkhole

When Buckley sees Susie under the grandfather clock

When Lynn sees Susie by Buckley's fort

When her father smashes his model ships
21 Where does Mr. Harvey put Susie's body?

In a safe in the sinkhole

He buries it in Connecticut

He buries it in the cornfield

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

Her charm bracelet

Her Pennsylvania keystone charm

An eraser shaped like a cartoon

An amber pendant
23 What is Mr. Harvey building in his yard when Jack Salmon offers to help?

A cave

A hole

A tent

A garden
24 How does Jack Salmon come to suspect that George Harvey murdered Susie?

He gets a feeling that Mr. Harvey did it

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
25 What is Mr. Harvey's dead wife's name?

He was never married

Flora

Leah

Sophie

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