World Book Day is on Thursday 7 March. Will you be dressing up as your favourite literary character? More importantly, do they make an appearance in the questions below? Take the quiz and find out! Answers at the bottom of the page.
Chapter One: Can you match these characters to the correct book or book series?
1 Bellatrix Lestrange
2 Ethel Hallow
3 Gizzardgulper
4 Radagast
5 Reepicheep
A Harry Potter
B The BFG
C The Chronicles of Narnia
D The Hobbit
E The Worst Witch
Chapter Two: Can you match the book to the line of text? Dashes indicate a missing name.
1 For how would the visitor know that the little girl didn’t have a mother? She didn’t have a father either, for that matter, at least not one who was at home. Quite simply, she lived there all alone in Villa Villekulla.
2 However, - - - did not remember ever having had a father; so he did not look for one.
3 It was in that strange and sudden way that --- found out that she had neither father nor mother left; that they had died and been carried away in the night.
4 These were the kind of things Aunt Izzie was saying, all day long. The children minded her pretty well, but they didn’t exactly love her, I fear.
5 “Well, you have finally woken up child,” said Aunt Alberta. The woman’s voice was rich and deep, like a boozy cake. She stepped out of the doorway and into her niece’s bedroom, her large brown steel-toe-capped boots clumping on the floorboards.
6 While - - - was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as opportunity offered, Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile, and very deep – for she wanted to trap him into damaging revelations.
A Awful Auntie by David Walliams
B Pippi Longstocking Goes Abroad by Astrid Lindgren
C The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
D The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
E The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
F What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
Chapter Three: Can you unscramble the letters to reveal the names of five authors?
1 TINY BLONDE
2 OLD NINJAS ALOUD
3 CLEAR RICE
4 CHROME ALIENS
5 IN THE BEDSIT
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