Walk Two Moons Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. What broader lesson does the journal-reading episode reinforce?
Written accounts are always more reliable than spoken stories
People should conceal opinions that might cause disagreement
Interpretations can harm others when they are made without enough context
Teachers understand students better than their friends do
2. Why is the class discussion of Pandora’s box relevant to the novel’s themes?
It explains why Phoebe distrusts every unfamiliar person
It suggests that curiosity is the sole cause of the families’ troubles
It proves that myths provide literal predictions of future events
It highlights the persistence of hope amid grief and hardship
3. Why is Sal initially so drawn to Phoebe’s belief that her mother will return?
Phoebe has received a letter promising an exact return date
It mirrors Sal’s own difficulty accepting what happened to her mother
Sal believes both mothers are traveling together
Gram asks Sal to support Phoebe’s theory
4. Where do Sal and her father live after leaving their farm in Bybanks, Kentucky?
Lewiston, Idaho
Pipestone, Minnesota
Euclid, Ohio
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
5. How does Mrs. Winterbottom’s return with Mike change Phoebe’s understanding of her disappearance?
It reveals a hidden part of her mother’s life and challenges Phoebe’s assumptions
It proves that Mrs. Winterbottom had been investigating the messages
It shows that Phoebe correctly identified every clue about the stranger
It confirms that Margaret Cadaver arranged the disappearance
6. What important connection does Margaret Cadaver have to Sal’s mother?
Margaret survived the bus crash in which Sal’s mother died
Margaret attended school with Sal’s mother in Bybanks
Margaret persuaded Sal’s mother to travel west
Margaret adopted Mike after his birth
7. Who is responsible for leaving the mysterious messages at the Winterbottom home?
Mike Bickle
Margaret Cadaver
Mr. Birkway
Mrs. Partridge
8. Which destination is Sal determined to reach by her mother’s birthday?
Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
Bybanks, Kentucky
Lewiston, Idaho
Madison, Wisconsin
9. What event prevents Gram from accompanying Sal on the final part of the journey to Lewiston?
Gram suffers a stroke and must remain in the hospital
Gram decides to return immediately to Bybanks
Gram is detained after Sal drives without permission
Gram stays behind to find Phoebe’s mother
10. How is Phoebe Winterbottom’s story presented within the novel?
As a story Sal tells Gram and Gramps during their trip
Through letters Phoebe sends Sal after leaving Ohio
As journal entries Mr. Birkway reads to the class
Through memories narrated entirely by Phoebe
11. What problem arises when Mr. Birkway reads students’ journals aloud?
The journals reveal the route of Sal’s planned trip
Private observations hurt classmates and expose careless judgments
The students discover that their grades were recorded incorrectly
Phoebe admits that she wrote every mysterious message
12. What does Sal’s decision to continue toward Lewiston most clearly demonstrate?
Her wish to prove that she no longer needs her family
Her urgent need to face the truth about her mother’s journey
Her belief that her mother is secretly living with Margaret
Her plan to bring Phoebe into the search
13. Which message from the novel most directly expresses the importance of empathy before judging someone?
Everyone has his own agenda.
Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.
In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter?
You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head.
14. Who is the young man Phoebe calls “the lunatic” eventually revealed to be?
Mr. Birkway’s estranged son
A detective investigating Mrs. Winterbottom
A stranger who followed Sal from Kentucky
Mike Bickle, Mrs. Winterbottom’s son
15. By the end of the novel, what best shows Sal’s changed perspective?
She decides never to speak about her mother again
She concludes that Phoebe’s suspicions were accurate
She accepts her mother’s death and can see Margaret with greater understanding
She rejects Bybanks because it contains painful memories
16. What is the main purpose of Sal’s road trip with Gram and Gramps?
To visit Ben Finney at a summer program
To help Phoebe search for her missing mother
To move the family from Ohio back to Kentucky
To retrace her mother’s journey to Lewiston, Idaho