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Author Trivia -- Game Two

1. Which of the following authors wrote Flight #116 Is Down after her daughter became an ambulance volunteer?
A) Eve Bunting
B) Caroline Cooney
C) Patricia Giff
D) Diane Dillon

2. Along with being an author, Brian Jacques is a well known radio personality in what city?
A) New York City
B) London
C) Liverpool
D) New Orleans

3. What author wrote The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 while working on an assembly line at the Fisher Body Plant?
A) Christopher Paul Curtis
B) Tomie dePaola
C) Laura Numeroff
D) Ludwig Bemelmans

4. Karen Hesse dreamed of growing up to be an archaeologist, an author, an actor and __________.
A) a scuba diver
B) wrestler
C) FBI agent
D) an ambassador

5. Katherine Paterson spent four years at what college?
A) Rutgers College
B) Moravian College
C) King College
D) Marymount College

6. Maurice Sendak is well known for writing ___________ .
A) Where the Wild Things Are
B) Little House on the Prarie
C) The Giving Tree
D) Arthur's Eyes

7. Emily Arnold McCully both wrote and __________ the book Picnic.
A) studied
B) took pictures of
C) practiced calligraphy in
D) illustrated

8. Which author has also been a successful humorist, screenwriter, journalist and playwright?
A) Joanna Cole
B) Bruce Coville
C) Paula Danziger
D) Dan Greenburg

9. K. A. Applegate is an amateur ____________ ?
A) cellist
B) photographer
C) crocodile hunter
D) opera singer

10. Who got their first story published in a church magazine at the age of 16?
A) Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
B) Lemony Snicket
C) Gail Carson Levine
D) Kimberly Holt

11. __________ grew up in Northern Ireland and came to America as a young mother?
A) Lois Ehlert
B) Eve Bunting
C) Pamela Ryan
D) Marjorie Priceman

12. When the Reys escaped from Paris in 1940 on their bicycles they carried what with them?
A) a camera
B) milk
C) their dog
D) a manuscript of Curious George

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