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Quiz about The Time Travelers Wife
Quiz about The Time Travelers Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife Trivia Quiz


Audrey Niffenegger's debut novel - an impossible tale of the involuntary time traveler Henry DeTamble, and the woman who loves him, Clare Abshire.

A multiple-choice quiz by ainenei. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
ainenei
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
276,150
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
612
Awards
Top 10% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. Clare meets Henry in the Meadow for the first time when she is six and he is thirty-six. What does she throw at him? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Fourteen years later Henry meets Clare for the first time when he is twenty-eight and she is twenty. Where are they when they finally catch up in time? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Gomez gives Henry a nickname when they meet for the fist time at Clare's apartment. What was it? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Henry's mother was killed in a car accident when Henry was six. On what date did the accident occur? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Who is Henry's doctor, the molecular geneticist who will discover why people are chrono-impaired in 2006? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Henry's father's landlady, Mrs Kim, had a daughter who died before Henry was born. What was her name? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What does Clare find in her mother's desk that finally allows her to cry over her death? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Just before Alba is born, Henry time travels into the future and meets her at age ten at the Art Institute of Chicago. Whose work was Alba's class looking at when Henry realized who she was? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Henry gets frost-bite in his feet during one of his time travels and as a result they are amputated. From where did he call himself and Clare the night it happened? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Henry says of himself, "I'm a beast of the hoof. If anything ever happens to my feet you might as well shoot me." Who does accidentally shoot him? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Clare meets Henry in the Meadow for the first time when she is six and he is thirty-six. What does she throw at him?

Answer: Her shoes

Realizing that Clare may be frightened of a strange naked man appearing in her favorite hiding place, Henry stays hidden in the long grass. Unfortunately he gives himself away by humming along with her to "The Dick Van Dyke Show" theme and Clare, thinking that he's her brother Mark playing a trick on her, throws her shoes at him.
2. Fourteen years later Henry meets Clare for the first time when he is twenty-eight and she is twenty. Where are they when they finally catch up in time?

Answer: Newberry Library

Clare had gone to the Newberry Library to look at a book for her art history research topic not knowing that it was where Henry worked. The only clue he had ever given her about where they meet was Chicago.
3. Gomez gives Henry a nickname when they meet for the fist time at Clare's apartment. What was it?

Answer: Library Boy

Although it is the first time they had ever officially met, the two men had seen each other around town before and Gomez tries to warn Clare to stay away from Henry as every woman he's ever been with falls apart.
4. Henry's mother was killed in a car accident when Henry was six. On what date did the accident occur?

Answer: Christmas Eve

The only reason Henry wasn't also killed in the accident was because he time traveled out of it. Over the years he returns to the scene again and again, seeing it from every angle.
5. Who is Henry's doctor, the molecular geneticist who will discover why people are chrono-impaired in 2006?

Answer: Dr. Kendrick

Due to a mix up with his son's prenatal tests, Dr. Kendrick had no idea that he would be born with Down Syndrome. Henry gives him precise information about his son's birth two weeks before he is born. When asked what he would have done if he had known Dr. Kendrick admits that since he and his wife were Catholic the end result would have been the same.
6. Henry's father's landlady, Mrs Kim, had a daughter who died before Henry was born. What was her name?

Answer: Min

Min died of leukemia in 1956 but after Mrs Kim tells Henry about her he suddenly remembers seeing her when he was time traveling as a child and tells Mrs Kim about it.
7. What does Clare find in her mother's desk that finally allows her to cry over her death?

Answer: A poem

Clare's mother was a manic-depressive and since she was a little girl Clare had never been sure of her love. The poem addressed to Clare is, as Henry describes it, "immutable, undeniable, a snapshot of emotion," and two weeks after the death, Clare is finally able to cry for her mother and herself.
8. Just before Alba is born, Henry time travels into the future and meets her at age ten at the Art Institute of Chicago. Whose work was Alba's class looking at when Henry realized who she was?

Answer: Joseph Cornell

Henry had been watching the class when Alba answers a question about the art they are looking at and he realizes who she is. Just as he is getting over that shock he gets another when Alba's teacher tell him that Alba's father is dead.
9. Henry gets frost-bite in his feet during one of his time travels and as a result they are amputated. From where did he call himself and Clare the night it happened?

Answer: Munroe Street Parking Garage

He answers the phone in January 2006 and it is himself calling from the parking garage. When he and Clare get there they don't find him. Nine months later Clare finds him "shivering, white and cold" on the floor of their living room.
10. Henry says of himself, "I'm a beast of the hoof. If anything ever happens to my feet you might as well shoot me." Who does accidentally shoot him?

Answer: Mark

It's deer-hunting season and Mark and Phillip go into the Meadow and towards the woods. Henry is hiding in the long grass when the hunters hear a noise and see a flash of white. Mark shoots and all three men hear a human scream, a man calling for Clare. But when they reach the spot there will be nothing there. Nothing but blood.
Source: Author ainenei

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