Treacle Walker Quizzes

Treacle Walker Quiz 1

1 Where does Treacle Walker say he will go when he leaves time behind?

Nothingness

Big Meadow

Oblivion

The Present
2 What is Joe's full name?

Joseph Stonehenge

Joseph Amren

Joseph Coppock

Joseph Walker
3 What time period were the Knockout comics actually published in?

19th century

The 1990s

2010

Mid-20th century
4 Where does Joe usually sleep?

On the steps

By the bog

In his kitchen

By the chimney
5 Who does Joe go see when he thinks there is something wrong with his eyes?

The optometrist

Thin Amren

His dad

Treacle Walker
6 Who is the author of the novel's epigraph?

Alan Garner

Albert Einstein

Carlo Rovelli

Treacle Walker
7 What did "treacle" mean in medieval English?

A sweet syrup

Magic

Curse

Medicine
8 What does Joe collect from the cuckoo?

Nests

Marbles

Eggs

Twigs
9 What onomatopoeia is repeated during the novel's climax?

Cuckoo

Clang

Woof

Clack
10 What does Joe use to cover his lazy eye?

An eye patch

Nothing

Glasses

His hair
11 What other genre does Treacle Walker fit into?

Science Fiction

Mystery

Romance

Folklore
12 What object serves as a passage between realities for Joe?

Door

The bog

Chimney

Mirror
13 Who does Joe meet at the bog?

The cart

Treacle Walker

A pony

Thin Amren
14 What language does Treacle Walker NOT use?

Irish

Latin

Scottish

Ancient Greek
15 What object does Treacle Walker say is "spurned by fools" but "honoured by the wise"?

The dobber

His pony

The stone

The bone
16 When does Thin Amren wake?

When he wants to go to Joe's house

When the cuckoo calls

Whenever he wants

When he hears Treacle Walker's call
17 What does Treacle Walker use as an instrument?

A flute made out of a bone

His stick to tap out beats

Stones as drums

A pipe
18 Treacle Walker calls his magic bag a Corr Bolg; what language is this term from?

Gaelic

Latin

Scottish

English
19 What is a "copse"?

A small group of trees

A house

A lazy eye

A bog
20 The novel's setting is partially based on...?

Magical lands from myths

Alan Garner's childhood home

London

Ireland
21 Treacle Walker states that he lives in a mound; what fairytale elements does this recall?

Hobbits

Trolls that live underground

Fairies that live in hollow hills

Elves that live in tree trunks
22 What does Treacle Walker call words that are made up?

Jolly jokes

Macaronics

Crimpet-crumpets

Hubbub
23 What image is on the stone?

A donkey

Kit

A cuckoo

Thin Amren
24 What does Thin Amren wear?

A necklace with bones

A leather hood

Pants

A leather shirt
25 What prize was Treacle Walker longlisted for?

The Pulitzer Prize

The National Book Award

The Pushcart Prize

The Booker Prize

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by Alan Garner

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