Quiz for Mary Stewart Day 2017: Animals in Mary Stewart Novels (courtesy of the Mary Queen of Plots blog)

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* 1. What is the name of the cat in Thornyhold, and which literary figure famously had a cat of the same name?

Bambino (Mark Twain)

Rumpel (Robert Southey)

Childebrand (Theophile Gautier)

Hodge (Dr Johnson)

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* 2. Which novel features a dolphin in jeopardy?

This Rough Magic

My Brother Michael

Wildfire at Midnight

Stormy Petrel

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* 3. Who is Samson and in which novel does he appear?

A cat in Wildfire at Midnight

A dog in The Gabriel Hounds

A horse in Thunder on the Right

A homing pigeon in Thornyhold

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* 4. Which of these activities did Tommy the cat in The Ivy Tree NOT do?

Get chased by Con's collie up the ivy tree

Stole the last sandwich at Julie's homecoming

Gave birth to seven kittens

Ate the trifle for Matthew Winslow's birthday dinner

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* 5. When vet Vanessa March meets Piebald the horse in Airs Above the Ground, what does she diagnose him with?

Colic

Haemotoma

Laminitis

Laurel poisoning

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* 6. Which novel has a dog called Beppo?

Madam, Will You Talk?

Touch Not the Cat

Nine Coaches Waiting

The Wind Off the Small Isles

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* 7. Who is Rowan in The Ivy Tree?

A puppy

Con's collie

A horse

One of Tommy's kittens

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* 8. What is the name of the cat in The Little Broomstick?

Tigg

Tabby

Tiptoes

Tib

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* 9. And the name of the horse in Ludo and the Star-Horse?

Renti

Spiegl

Kainz

Franzl

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* 10. And which novel does NOT have any dogs in it?

Thornyhold

Madam, Will You Talk?

The Gabriel Hounds

The Moon-Spinners