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Quiz about Trivia about Cat Running
Quiz about Trivia about Cat Running

Trivia about "Cat Running" Trivia Quiz


This is my first quiz, and I would LOVE to hear from anyone who takes it. I welcome corrections and comments, and I hope you enjoy this quiz on the wonderful book, "Cat Running", by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

A multiple-choice quiz by LOTRfangirl. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
LOTRfangirl
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
177,737
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
142
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Question 1 of 10
1. What is Cat's last name? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What is the name of Cat's best friend? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What is the name of the little girl that Cat befriends? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. The boys' names in the Perkins family are Zane, Joseph, and Roddy.


Question 5 of 10
5. What is the name of Cat's snobby half-sister? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Why is the book called "Cat Running?" Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Why did Cat wear a polka-dot dress to Play Day? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What is the name of the town that Cat lived in? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. The old playhouse in the back of the grotto was pink.


Question 10 of 10
10. What was the name of the doll that Cat eventually gives to Sammy? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What is Cat's last name?

Answer: Kinsey

A lot of the time, Zane or Spence or some of the other kids would call her "Cat Kinsey". Her full name is Catherine Kinsey, and sometimes her mom calls her "Cathy" but most of the time, she is just referred to as "Cat".
2. What is the name of Cat's best friend?

Answer: Janet

Janet is mentioned on a few occasions as being Cat's best friend, the first in Chapter 4. She and Cat built Monopolis together, but were forbidden to play together, except at school, because of their fathers' religious and moral beliefs.
3. What is the name of the little girl that Cat befriends?

Answer: Sammy

Sammy Perkins is a six year old "Okie". Her real name is Samantha, but because the Perkins family doesn't have enough money to buy dresses for a little girl, Sammy has to pretend to be a boy. Cat finds out on the second time they meet that Sammy is a girl, and later on gives Sammy a dress and sweater.
4. The boys' names in the Perkins family are Zane, Joseph, and Roddy.

Answer: False

The boys' names are Zane, Spence, and Roddy. so Joseph would be incorrect. Cat finds it interesting that Zane is named for a famous author.
5. What is the name of Cat's snobby half-sister?

Answer: Ellen

Ellen Kinsey is Cat's half sister. Ellen and Cliff's (Cat's half-brother)mother died of pneumonia, and then Mr. Kinsey married Cat's mom.
6. Why is the book called "Cat Running?"

Answer: Because Cat loves to run, and at the end of the book Zane says she just keeps on running

At the end of the book Cat and Zane are running to phone a doctor, and partway through, on unspoken agreement, it became the race that Cat had been avoiding...In the last chapter, Zane said that she won,and even though he was faster, she just kept running.
7. Why did Cat wear a polka-dot dress to Play Day?

Answer: Because if she had to look ridiculous, she might as well do a good job of it

Cat was mad because her old-fashioned father wouldn't let her wear slacks, so she decided not to race at all. In the book she thought, "If I have to look ridiculous, I might as well do a good job of it." So she wore an old-fashioned polka dot dress.
8. What is the name of the town that Cat lived in?

Answer: Brownwood

Brownwood is also the name of Cat's school. The Perkins' kids liked that school, and that town, because in other towns where they had been, the teachers and kids had been very rude to them.
9. The old playhouse in the back of the grotto was pink.

Answer: False

Cat hauled the old YELLOW playhouse piece by piece to the back of the grotto, to make a little shelter in the back. The playhouse used to be Ellen's, and in years past, Cat politely refused her father's offer to rebuild it for Cat. (It says in the book that Cat was never the playhouse type, but she thought that a secret shelter in the back of her grotto was different.
10. What was the name of the doll that Cat eventually gives to Sammy?

Answer: Marianne

Cat recieved the doll for Christmas last year, but she promptly moved the doll to the attic, because she was really too old for dolls. She had named it Marianne, but when Sammy sneaked into the grotto and found Marianne, she named it Lillybelle, after Sammy's mom's old doll. Later on in the book, even Cat begins to think of it as Lillybelle.
Source: Author LOTRfangirl

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