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Quiz about Daisy Fay And The Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
Quiz about Daisy Fay And The Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg

"Daisy Fay And The Miracle Man" by Fannie Flagg Quiz


See how much you remember about this charming book. Note: This book was originally published as "Coming Attractions".

A multiple-choice quiz by kennell. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
kennell
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
356,305
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
234
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Question 1 of 10
1. How did Daisy Fay's parents choose her name? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. How old is Daisy Fay at the beginning of the book? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. At the time the book begins, the Harpers are living in Jackson, Mississippi. After Daisy Fay's mother wins the one hundred dollar bingo jackpot, what town do the Harpers move to? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. How did Daisy Fay's father get the money for the first payment on the malt shop? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Who was Daisy Fay's nemesis both in town and at school? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. What was the "miracle" Daisy Fay's father and the phony preacher Billy Bundy dreamed up to get fast money? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Who was the father of Pickle's baby? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. When Daisy Fay became active in the local theater, who became her best friend and adviser? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Whose idea is it for Daisy Fay to enter the "Miss Mississippi" contest? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. How does Daisy Fay finish in the "Miss Mississippi" contest? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. How did Daisy Fay's parents choose her name?

Answer: She was named after a vase of daisies in her mother's room

Daisy Fay's mother wanted to name her "Mignon" after her sister, but her father refused, saying that he "didn't want his only daughter named after a steak." Daisy Fay's Grandma Pettibone chose the name because there was a "vase of daisies in the room." According to Daisy Fay, some people called her "Little Fay", since her mother's name was Fay. (They called her mother "Big Fay").
2. How old is Daisy Fay at the beginning of the book?

Answer: 11

The book is written in diary form. Daisy Fay's first entry is dated April 1, 1952 and starts out: "Hello there...my name is Daisy Fay Harper and I was eleven years old yesterday."

There is also an opening before the first entry written by Daisy Fay that reads: "What you are about to read...Really did happen to me...Or maybe it didn't...I'm not sure...But it doesn't matter...Because it's true...Daisy Fay Harper".
3. At the time the book begins, the Harpers are living in Jackson, Mississippi. After Daisy Fay's mother wins the one hundred dollar bingo jackpot, what town do the Harpers move to?

Answer: Shell Beach

Shell Beach is right on the Gulf of Mexico. Daisy Fay's father went into partnership with his friend Jimmy Snow and opened "Harper's Malt Shop". Sadly, once the summer was over, they had no customers!
4. How did Daisy Fay's father get the money for the first payment on the malt shop?

Answer: He burned down the building for the insurance money

Daisy Fay's father was an alcoholic. He insisted on having a liquor license to serve beer in the malt shop, and he ended up drinking away most of their profits. Also, according to Daisy Fay, they used ice cream in the malts instead of malt base, and he didn't use bread in the hamburgers to help stretch out the meat.

The only solution Mr. Harper could think of to meet the first payment was to burn down the malt shop! (Daisy Fay's parents sure weren't "Parents-Of-The-Year" material!)
5. Who was Daisy Fay's nemesis both in town and at school?

Answer: Kay Bob Benson

Kay Bob Benson never liked Daisy Fay from the start. She constantly referred to her as a "river rat". I laughed so hard when Daisy Fay and Michael Romeo scared her so much at their house of horrors on Halloween. They called it "The Hall of Blood and Guts, Enter If You Dare". Daisy Fay was "Madame Bodini, the ugliest woman that ever lived" and Michael was her faithful assistant, "Grondo the Gruesome".

After having their blindfolded customers touch various "body parts", they were made to touch "A handful of worms and maggots just taken out of the stomach of a person who died of the Black Plague".

They used cut up pasta for everyone except Kay Bob. For her, they used the real thing!
6. What was the "miracle" Daisy Fay's father and the phony preacher Billy Bundy dreamed up to get fast money?

Answer: Daisy Fay drowns and returns from the dead

Mr. Harper was in desperate need of money, since the insurance money was running low, so he and Billy Bundy cooked up the so-called "miracle". The idea was for Daisy Fay to row out in a boat with a movie projector. The projector had a piece of wood with a cross cut out so that a lit up cross would shine in the sky. Meanwhile, Mr. Harper would be running around the shore yelling that his little girl had drowned so that a crowd would form.

Then Daisy Fay would leave the boat, dog-paddle almost to the shore, then stand up and walk in saying: "I have been with my Father in heaven, and He let me come back from the dead to deliver a message to my daddy to quit drinking." But of course, everything went wrong!
7. Who was the father of Pickle's baby?

Answer: Pickle's father

Pickle Watkins was Daisy Fay's best friend in high school. She came from a very religious family, but her father was extremely abusive. One day, he accused Pickle of having had sex with her boyfriend, Mustard Smoot. (Hey, Fannie Flagg made up these names, not me!) Her father beat her and then dragged her into the back room and raped her.

She told her mother what had happened, but her mother wouldn't believe her. When Pickle found out that she was pregnant, Mustard married her. So Pickle's son was also her own half-brother!
8. When Daisy Fay became active in the local theater, who became her best friend and adviser?

Answer: Mr. Cecil

By this time, it is 1958 and Daisy Fay is living in Hattiesburg. Daisy Fay got a job working the spotlights at the Azalea Street Playhouse, but after doing a comedy sketch at a cast party, the director, Professor Teasley offered Daisy Fay a role in his next play. Mr. Cecil is the costume designer and remains Daisy Fay's closest friend through the remainder of the book.
9. Whose idea is it for Daisy Fay to enter the "Miss Mississippi" contest?

Answer: Mr. Cecil

It's now 1959. Daisy Fay had been engaged to be married, but her boyfriend dumped her and married his former girlfriend instead. Mr. Cecil told Daisy Fay that he was tired of her sitting around feeling sorry for herself. He entered her in the contest, hoping she could win the scholarship to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, New York.
10. How does Daisy Fay finish in the "Miss Mississippi" contest?

Answer: She wins the "Miss Mississippi" title

Daisy Fay didn't really want to win the title. But the contest was "fixed". A girl by the name of Margaret Poole was supposed to win, but Daisy Fay's grandfather (on her father's side), was president of the stagehand's union, and he put in the fix. The spotlights and microphone were sabotaged for the other finalists talent acts. (Including, of all people, Kay Bob Benson! Poor Daisy Fay could never get away from her!) The stagehands had both working for Daisy Fay's act. Also, the audience loved Daisy Fay, and the theater owner told the judges that if they didn't let Daisy Fay win, the crowd would destroy the theater! The last straw was when one of the other contestants slipped a note to the judges supposedly written by Margaret Poole saying that she was in an inter-racial marriage and was pregnant. That left the judges no choice but to declare Daisy Fay the winner! (I would loved to have seen Kay Bob Benson's face when Daisy Fay won-Kay Bob ended up as fourth runner-up!)
Source: Author kennell

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