Fanfare please: today we have a Mary Stewart Quiz based on her suspense novels! It is only fair to warn you that I may be on my way to having Quiz and Survey Mania, because making up Mary Stewart questions and answers is so enjoyable.
I really hope that these questions will be fun for everyone. I don’t think they are hugely tricky… but, then again, I have read each book multiple times (and I had the paperbacks open in front of me to help me think of questions).
I have avoided spoilers in my choice of questions and answers.
I hope that these questions work worldwide. I know that the US versions of Mary Stewart’s novels differ sometimes in some ways (but only in small ways?) from the UK copies that I am working from – so please do let me know if there are any questions or answers that just don’t make sense, for example, if I refer to people not included in your version of a novel.
I again used lovely, clever SurveyMonkey to create this quiz. It was my intention to ask one question about each of the 15 suspense novels BUT then I discovered that it is only quizzes and surveys of ten questions or less that are available free. So. This quiz has ten questions.
As I explained in my Saturday Survey, I can’t embed surveys or quizzes in my free wordpress account but I can provide links to access them, so here is my first ever quiz:
The Mary Stewart Quiz – her suspense novels
Please let me know if there are any flaws or difficulties, or drop me a line with future quiz suggestions.
Mary Queen of Plots 
Did the quiz! Love quizzes! i think there were too many choices for answers. I think having 5 or 6 answers would be good. I really liked the questions!
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You’re right about the number of answers listed, I simply typed all the suspense titles in and copied from question to question but I should cut it down – after work I may experiment to see if I can edit the quiz without losing the responses.
I also still have to figure out if I need to share the responses, or if everyone can access that already via the quiz link. Hopefully I’ll sort that out tonight too.
I’m so pleased you liked the questions! It’s harder than I thought to avoid spoilers, for instance I didn’t want to give away who was the hero or villain of the books so I ended up pretty much avoiding the male characters. But it’s great fun – there will be more quizzes!
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I have cut the options down to 7 (respondents have given 7 different answers to Qn 4 so I couldn’t cut the options more than that). The final question seems to have been the hardest, only 18% have it right.
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I need to re-read Mary Stewart’s books. That was harder than I thought but fun.
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I’m glad you enjoyed it, Cryssa. I’m afraid I made the quiz too difficult – but by all means re-read MS, that’s always a good idea!
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An excellent way to encourage us to read more.
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Haha I hope so!
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Would also be fun to have a quiz on just one of books. Also 10 questions is perfect. Shmoop’s literature quizzes are only 5 questions and I’m always wanting more!
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I’ll work on it!
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Must be fun on your end to see how peeps are doing. I only got 3 out of 10.
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I’ve still to figure out sharing the results, I will probably do it as an update to the quiz post. It is fun – and 3 is a respectable score, people have scored between 1 and 9/10.
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I also tried to take the quiz again to see if I could improve…but wasn’t allowed to.
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Sorry, the set-up doesn’t allow it once it is completed as far as I can see.
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Right, I think I have most issues fixed for the newest quiz. It’s a learning curve!
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Well, I was hopeless at answering these! Couldn’t believe how little I remembered!
It was fun though! You’ll have us all hooked on these things!
So what intrigues me now is: how many of them would you have been able to answer, Allison, if you hadn’t had the books open in front of you? 🙂
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Thanks Rosetta – I’m sorry for setting such an impossible quiz! I’d have struggled too with questions 4, 5 and especially 10 – but I thought these points were fascinating so I wanted them in the quiz. Plus I didn’t want the quiz to be too easy… I certainly achieved that! The Madam Will You Talk? quiz seems much more reasonable judging by all the scores
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