SparkNotes: Bless the Beasts and Children: Quiz

Where do the Bedwetters go for an overnight camping trip, during which they first visit the buffalo preserve for the first time?

(A) Grand Canyon

(B) Petrified Forest

(C) Box Canyon

(D) Mingus Mountain

According to Lally two, who lives in his family's sauna?

(A) The Fitzes

(B) The Johnsons

(C) The Ooms

(D) The Uffs

What happens during John Cotton's dream at the very beginning of the novel?

(A) The Bedwetters free the buffalo

(B) He is a shooter at the annual buffalo killing

(C) The Bedwetters become the Apaches at camp

(D) The Bedwetters are killed in the same way the buffalo have been killed

Who shoots Cotton in his dream?

(A) His mother

(B) His stepfather

(C) Goodenow

(D) The camp director

When he awakens from his dream, how does Cotton first realize that Lally two is missing?

(A) He counts the sleeping bodies

(B) Lally one is crying because he cannot find his brother

(C) His shoes are not in their normal place at the end of the bed

(D) He hears four radios, not five

What is the result of the vote on whether or not to leave the camp for the night?

(A) Everyone except Lally two supports the trip

(B) There is unanimous support for the trip

(C) Cotton, Lally one, and Teft support the trip; Lally two, Goodenow, and Shecker do not

(D) Everyone except Cotton supports the trip

Which Native American tribe name represents the most respected cabin at camp?

(A) The Navahos

(B) The Cherokees

(C) The Apaches

(D) The Hopi

Who does the group fear sees them as they leave the camp?

(A) The camp director

(B) Wheaties

(C) A member of the Apaches

(D) The camp lifeguard

Which movie do the Bedwetters sneak out of camp one night to watch?

(A) Red River

(B) Rio Bravo

(C) High Noon

(D) The Professionals

Of what does Goodenow have a profound fear?

(A) Spiders

(B) Heights

(C) School

(D) Water

What is "bumping?"

(A) A game the Bedwetters play when they are bored

(B) The Bedwetters' silly dance

(C) A type of huddling

(D) Bumper cars

What do the boys see upon reaching the top of Mingus Mountain?

(A) A huge herd of buffalo

(B) The Grand Canyon

(C) Prescott

(D) Flagstaff

What do the Bedwetters call their fictional band during their encounter with the bowlers?

(A) Before Christ

(B) The Buffalos

(C) The Bedwetters

(D) The Apaches

How do the boys force the bowlers to stop bothering them?

(A) They drive faster than the bowlers

(B) Teft shoots a rifle at their tire

(C) They set their car aflame

(D) They beat up the bowlers

What happens when the Bedwetters are only a few miles from the buffalo preserve?

(A) Goodenow has a panic attack

(B) They run out of gas

(C) The windshield cracks

(D) A buffalo stands in the middle of the road, barring their path

Why does Cotton vote against completing their mission?

(A) He is exhausted

(B) He is hungry

(C) He wants to test the boys' resolve and independence

(D) He misses his mother

On what does Goodenow slip and fall in the buffalo preserve?

(A) Baseballs

(B) Mud

(C) Blood

(D) Wet grass

How do the shooters get the opportunity to kill the buffalo?

(A) By winning the lottery

(B) By having the right connections

(C) By undergoing a lengthy test of their skills with a rifle

(D) By signing onto a waiting list

What reaction do the Bedwetters have to the killings?

(A) They brag about it to the other campers

(B) They become sickened, quiet, and disturbed

(C) They long to become shooters themselves someday

(D) They put on a skit for the rest of the camp about what they have seen

How does Lally two surprise the rest of the group while at the buffalo preserve?

(A) He refuses to let go of his pillow

(B) He volunteers to scale the catwalk above the pens

(C) He beats up his brother

(D) He wins the lottery to become a shooter

How does Cotton propose they scare the buffalo out of the pens?

(A) By shooting the rifle up at the ceiling

(B) By throwing their flashlights, hats, and radios at the buffalo

(C) By shouting at the top of the lungs

(D) By charging at the buffalo

What beverage do the Bedwetters share upon freeing the buffalo?

(A) Whiskey

(B) Beer

(C) Coffee

(D) Champagne

Where does Cotton intend to release the buffalo to true freedom?

(A) Mingus Mountain

(B) Utah

(C) Grand Canyon

(D) Mongollon Rim

What does Lally two leave behind in the pens?

(A) His pillow

(B) His shoes

(C) A letter to the preserve owners

(D) His shirt

As the boys feed the buffalo hay out of the back of the truck, how do the animals and the boys interact?

(A) The buffalo are very afraid of the boys

(B) They seem to understand one another

(C) The boys are very afraid of the buffalo

(D) The buffalo attack the boys