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A "Mediator" Quiz


This is a short quiz on the first four books of Jenny Carroll's "The Mediator" series. Some questions are hard... hope you enjoy the challenge!

A multiple-choice quiz by louiness. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
louiness
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
187,295
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
11 / 15
Plays
857
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Question 1 of 15
1. Let's start at the very beginning. The book "Shadowland" starts with Suze flying to California. On the way and after arriving, she is fascinated with different types of unfamiliar vegetation she encounters. Which are the plants she sees, and talks about, from the first sentence in the book? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. When arriving at her new home, Suze becomes reacquainted with her new stepbrothers. Because she thinks it's rather funny, she has named them after characters from a Disney movie. Which Disney movie is this? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. On her first day in Carmel, Suze finds out that Jake has a job at a pizza place, for whom he delivers pizza (or 'za, as he takes to calling it). What is the name of this pizza place? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. The first person Suze meets at Junipero Serro Academy is Adam McTavish. They immediately find something to talk about. What is it? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. Suze, upon coming to her new class, opts to sit closer to a window, and, as a result, behind an albino, Cee Cee. Cee Cee soon tells her she doesn't need her pity, and with Suze's reply they become friends. Does Cee Cee have braces when Suze first meets her?


Question 6 of 15
6. In the second book, "Ninth Key", Suze receives a ride with a multimillionaire, and time spent in one of his rooms being forced to put on a bathing costume so he could pretend her murder is an accident. She also receives her first kiss. Who is it from? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. Just for a little bit of random trivia, what colour is the bathing suit that Suze is forced to try on in Mr Beaumont's office, so Marcus can pretend her death was accidental? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. In one of the first four books of the series Suze has to handle several restless ghosts, dressed in formal wear, 'the girls with wrist corsages, even'. Coined 'The RLS Angels' after their death, they were apparently 'pillars of society'. What is the name of this book? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. Jenny Carroll also writes books under the name Tamora Pierce, with work under this name including "The Immortals" and "The Song of the Lioness". Under the name Tamora Pierce she also started "sheroescentral.com" with another writer. Is this statement true or false?


Question 10 of 15
10. Now for my favourite part of "The Mediator" series: a ghost named Jesse. When we first meet Jesse, he's complacently sitting on a window seat in Suze's room, but pretty soon he becomes very angry. What did Suze do to him to make him angry? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. We find out in one of the books that Jesse is not, in fact, Jesse's real name. His last name is de Silva, but only his family and close friends called him Jesse. What did everyone else, including his fiancée, call him instead? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. Jesse had many sisters, ranging in ages from six to sixteen at the time he died. We learn this from letters he wrote to his fiancée, which Suze finds at the Carmel-by-the-sea Historical Society, from Dr Clive Clemmings, PhD. How many sisters did he have? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. Jesse has a scar. Suze always thought it would have been from a knife in a fight or something, but she later finds out it's from a dog bite. When he gets angry it appears white. Where is this scar? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. Suze's mother is a news presenter on a local station, who married Andy after her first husband, Suze's father, died. Can you tell me her name? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. Now for a last question, this time related to endings. Jenny Carroll likes to end very dramatically, leaving us asking for more. Which of these four sentences is not the last line of one of the first four books in "The Mediator" series? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Let's start at the very beginning. The book "Shadowland" starts with Suze flying to California. On the way and after arriving, she is fascinated with different types of unfamiliar vegetation she encounters. Which are the plants she sees, and talks about, from the first sentence in the book?

Answer: Palm trees

At the very start of the first book, Suze is amazed that there are palm trees in Southern California, where she is now moving to. Soon afterwards (in the parking lot of the airport) she discovers hibiscus and cyprus trees, and more palm trees. It's not until book two that she discovers the harmful effects of poison ivy...
2. When arriving at her new home, Suze becomes reacquainted with her new stepbrothers. Because she thinks it's rather funny, she has named them after characters from a Disney movie. Which Disney movie is this?

Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

She has three new stepbrothers, Jake, Brad and David, whom she likes to call Sleepy, Dopey and Doc: Sleepy because she thinks Jake's always asleep, Dopey because she thinks Brad's really stupid, and Doc because David is really smart... and small.
3. On her first day in Carmel, Suze finds out that Jake has a job at a pizza place, for whom he delivers pizza (or 'za, as he takes to calling it). What is the name of this pizza place?

Answer: Peninsula Pizza

Jake delivers pizzas for Peninsula Pizza as he is saving up for a Camaro. During the summer, he's a lifeguard for Pebble Beach Hotel and Golf Resort, and through this place he gets Suze a job babysitting. Kelly and Deb are always thinking about ordering something so Jake will deliver it.
4. The first person Suze meets at Junipero Serro Academy is Adam McTavish. They immediately find something to talk about. What is it?

Answer: A life-size crucifix

Yes, there was a life-size crucifix hanging in the office behind the secretary, which Suze was staring at. Adam took this opportunity to amuse her by saying "He's supposed to weep tears of blood if any girl ever graduates from here a virgin".
5. Suze, upon coming to her new class, opts to sit closer to a window, and, as a result, behind an albino, Cee Cee. Cee Cee soon tells her she doesn't need her pity, and with Suze's reply they become friends. Does Cee Cee have braces when Suze first meets her?

Answer: Yes

Cee Cee has almost white hair, pink skin, purple eyes and "a mouthful of braces that winked as brightly as the sea outside the window". She's the editor of the school paper, and we later find out, has a psychic aunt named Pru. Cee Cee also has a little bit of a crush on Adam.
6. In the second book, "Ninth Key", Suze receives a ride with a multimillionaire, and time spent in one of his rooms being forced to put on a bathing costume so he could pretend her murder is an accident. She also receives her first kiss. Who is it from?

Answer: Tad Beaumont

Suze receives her first kiss from Tad in his souped up car, after she went to his house to talk to his father about things she'd heard about him (she became slightly frightened when she realised he had a lot of vampire-like symptoms). Little did she know that Jesse would appear in the back seat...
7. Just for a little bit of random trivia, what colour is the bathing suit that Suze is forced to try on in Mr Beaumont's office, so Marcus can pretend her death was accidental?

Answer: Red

Marcus leaves Suze alone in Mr Beaumont's office so she can change into a red swimsuit. She spends the entire time trying to escape: eventually she smashes the aquarium as Marcus is entering, climbs into it, breaks one of the lights and throws it down on the water by his feet. A very cool move, I think.
8. In one of the first four books of the series Suze has to handle several restless ghosts, dressed in formal wear, 'the girls with wrist corsages, even'. Coined 'The RLS Angels' after their death, they were apparently 'pillars of society'. What is the name of this book?

Answer: Reunion

In the third book of the series, Suze's best friend from Brooklyn, Gina, comes over to visit just as four ghosts start trying to kill the guy that killed them. In trying to save said guy, he starts thinking Suze has a bit of a crush on him... disturbing, but helpful, as it keeps him close to Suze. The guy ends up being a killer, so he goes to jail at the end of the book.
9. Jenny Carroll also writes books under the name Tamora Pierce, with work under this name including "The Immortals" and "The Song of the Lioness". Under the name Tamora Pierce she also started "sheroescentral.com" with another writer. Is this statement true or false?

Answer: False

Jenny Carroll is a pseudonym, the name of the author's dead cat. However, her real name, which she also writes under, is Meg Cabot, and under this name she wrote the series 'Princess Diaries' and some other books. She also writes under the name Meggin Cabot and Patricia Cabot.

She started sheroescentral.com with another writer... Tamora Pierce! Check out some of her other work, they're just as good as "Mediator"!
10. Now for my favourite part of "The Mediator" series: a ghost named Jesse. When we first meet Jesse, he's complacently sitting on a window seat in Suze's room, but pretty soon he becomes very angry. What did Suze do to him to make him angry?

Answer: She called him a cowboy

Suze first sees Jesse in her new room, and waits for her mother to leave before talking to him, but the conversation doesn't go quite like she wanted it to. He's adament on not leaving, and can't tell her what his 'glitch' is. He remains calm and collected until she calls him a cowboy: then he reacts by telling her his family had worked like slaves to get where they were, but never as vaquero.

She also touches him, making him ask her "What sort of... girl are you?"
11. We find out in one of the books that Jesse is not, in fact, Jesse's real name. His last name is de Silva, but only his family and close friends called him Jesse. What did everyone else, including his fiancée, call him instead?

Answer: Hector

A name you might not expect, having no relation to the name Jesse, but Hector de Silva he was. You have to remember he came from a very traditional Spanish family, which possibly has something to do with the reason he only calls Suze by her proper name, Susannah.
12. Jesse had many sisters, ranging in ages from six to sixteen at the time he died. We learn this from letters he wrote to his fiancée, which Suze finds at the Carmel-by-the-sea Historical Society, from Dr Clive Clemmings, PhD. How many sisters did he have?

Answer: Five

Yes, Jesse had five sisters, which Suze doesn't find out until reading his letters to Maria de Silva, his cousin who he is engaged to. Jesse asked for these letters back when he wanted to break off the engagement, but Maria didn't like that, and so had him killed.

She ended up marrying a slave-driver, Diego, and they had lots of children, who all turned out pretty bad, apparently. One of them sold her portrait at a garage sale.
13. Jesse has a scar. Suze always thought it would have been from a knife in a fight or something, but she later finds out it's from a dog bite. When he gets angry it appears white. Where is this scar?

Answer: Eyebrow

Suze notices the scar the first time she sees Jesse, as well as some other things: his nice abdominals, hair, eyes, voice, the Latino thing he has going... But she doesn't like him straight away. It takes a while for her to warm up to him, greatly helped by his saving her life several times. Over time they become great friends, and fall in love with each other.
14. Suze's mother is a news presenter on a local station, who married Andy after her first husband, Suze's father, died. Can you tell me her name?

Answer: It never says in any of the books

They never say her name in any of the first four books. Check it for yourself... not once do they say it. Suze refers to her as Mom, and none of the other characters ever mention it either.
15. Now for a last question, this time related to endings. Jenny Carroll likes to end very dramatically, leaving us asking for more. Which of these four sentences is not the last line of one of the first four books in "The Mediator" series?

Answer: Especially if he called me querida again.

"Especially if he called me querida again" is a line after Jesse touches Suze on the cheek in the hospital in "Reunion", making her estatically happy, but it's not the last line. The last line is "Oh," I said, still smiling. "Nothing." This line is said in response to Gina's asking why she was so happy. "And," I said, "it's all right" is the last line of "Shadowland", where Suze, Adam and Cee Cee are singing at the beach. On the lips is, of course, the satisfying ending of "Darkest Hour", where Jesse and Suze finally kiss.
Source: Author louiness

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