The Pact Quizzes

The Pact Quiz 1

1 Who is the author of "The Pact"?
JK Rowling

Madeline Cohen

Jodi Picoult

Paula Hawkins
2 In what year does the main action of "The Pact" take place?
2010

2016

1980

1997
3 What is the title of Part I?
The Boy Next Door

Childhood

Parenthood

My Friend Chris
4 What do Gus, James, Melanie, and Michael often do together?
Eat Chinese food

Discuss politics

Go golfing

Watch Chris's swim meets
5 What is Gus's job?
Ophthalmologist

Librarian

Veterinarian

Professional waiter
6 What is James's job?
Professional waiter

Librarian

Veterinarian

Ophthalmologist
7 What is Michael's job?
Veterinarian

Librarian

Ophthalmologist

Professional waiter
8 What is Melanie's job?
Ophthalmologist

Professional waiter

Veterinarian

Librarian
9 At what is Emily very skilled?
Swimming

Visual art

Ice dance

Creative writing
10 Around what time are the two couples summoned to the hospital?
7am

3am

8pm

1am
11 Where is Gus Harte when she finds out the children are at the hospital?
Kissing Michael Gold

Asleep at home

Waiting for Metallica tickets

Getting ready to leave for work
12 What do the adults find out when they reach the hospital?
Chris and Emily were both pronounced dead on arrival

Emily is alive but wounded; Chris is dead

Chris and Emily are both alive but wounded

Chris is alive but wounded; Emily is dead
13 What do the adults assume happened to injure their children?
A shooting in a bad part of town

A botched double suicide

An accident at the playground

An explosion
14 What is the name of the town where Chris and Emily grew up?
Springfield

Bainbridge

Charlottesville

Cumberland
15 How close do the Hartes and Golds live?
In the same school district

Next door

Across the street

Three houses apart
16 In what year did the Golds move to Bainbridge?
1997

1979

2010

1981
17 What do Melanie and Michael incorrectly assume about Gus and James?
They love to read

They are going to have a female child

They aren't married

They are a gay couple
18 How do Gus and Melanie become friends?
Melanie checks out books from Gus to choose a baby name

They start a cooking club

They start a book club

Gus checks out books from Melanie to choose a baby name
19 Who is older, Chris or Emily?
Chris is a few months older

They are born only minutes apart

Emily is a few months older

Chris is a year older
20 When do Chris and Emily first meet?
When Emily is brought home from the hospital

At the hospital on the day Emily is born

When they start preschool together

When they start kindergarten together
21 What is the name of the detective in charge of Chris's case?
Leslie F. Puckett

Barrie Delaney

Jordan McAfee

Anne-Marie Marrone
22 What does Michael do that upsets Melanie at the funeral parlor?
Brings the wrong clothes to bury Emily

Does not remember how old Emily is

Talks too much about the prices of different coffins

Purchases a coffin that is too expensive
23 Which adult becomes fixated on the idea of Chris killing Emily?
Michael

James

Gus

Melanie
24 Who comes to Gus's car window with a gun?
James

Nobody, it is a dream

Chris

Melanie
25 What is the name of the Harte's second child?
Melanie

Chris

Kate

Emily

How did going off to college seem different?

What do you mean by "different"? Different from what?

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How far was George falling behind on his tuition?

George had fallen behind approximately six-thousand dollars on his tuition.

Unpaid tuition fees kept accruing each year, and I graduated from Seton Hall with an unpaid balance of more than $ 6,000. That would cause problems for me during my...

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What does George say about role models?

From the text:

Having grown up without a father for much of my life, I knew the importance of male role models. I had been fortunate to know good men, including my friends, who stood in the gap and taught me life lessons, large and small.

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