Blood Like Mine Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Story?
Quiz Questions
Answer each question based on the book Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville.
Plot and Sequence (8 Questions)
1. Why does Rebecca’s van get stuck in the snow in Chapter 1?
- A) The engine overheats
- B) She swerves to avoid an elk
- C) A stranger blocks the road
- D) She runs out of gas
2. Where does FBI agent Marc Donner first learn about the theft of a phone that leads him to the woman from the gas station?
- A) Denver, Colorado
- B) Flagstaff, Arizona
- C) El Paso, Texas
- D) Scottsdale, Arizona
3. In Chapter 21, what weapon does Rebecca use to kill the man who took Moonflower to his remote cabin?
- A) A knife
- B) A revolver
- C) An arrow
- D) A taser
4. What happens to Moonflower’s body after she “dies” at age twelve, according to Rebecca’s account in the interrogation?
- A) She is buried in the family plot
- B) She walks out of the morgue on her own
- C) Rebecca never reveals the truth
- D) The police never find the body
5. After the arrest of Rebecca in Flagstaff, where does Moonflower go in Chapter 27?
- A) She returns to the RV park
- B) She scales a fence at a small airport
- C) She gets a ride from a truck driver
- D) She hides in a church basement
6. What does Guthrie Chambers use to preserve blood for Moonflower?
- A) Formaldehyde
- B) Polyvinyl alcohol
- C) Saline solution
- D) Anticoagulant
7. In the final confrontation at the auto repair yard, who is shot by Donner’s bullet?
- A) Moonflower
- B) Rebecca
- C) Officer Mehta
- D) Guthrie
8. What is the last image of the novel in Chapter 61?
- A) Moonflower howling from a police cruiser
- B) Rebecca waking naked on a steel table
- C) Donner’s funeral
- D) The van abandoned in the snow
Character Motivation (5 Questions)
9. Why does Rebecca refuse to let Moonflower feed on the man she attacks at the convenience store in Chapter 15?
- A) She wants to avoid leaving evidence
- B) She knows the man is innocent
- C) She fears Moonflower will lose control forever
- D) She plans to turn him over to the police
10. What drives Marc Donner’s obsession with the case, despite warnings from his partner and superiors?
- A) A personal grudge against the killer
- B) Guilt over the Michael Roach case
- C) Pressure from the media
- D) A promise to his ex-wife
11. Why does Guthrie Chambers help infected people like Moonflower?
- A) He is paid by the FBI
- B) He watched his own mother starve rather than harm humans
- C) He hopes to find a cure through them
- D) He wants revenge on the criminal justice system
12. Why does Moonflower sometimes speak harshly to her mother, as in Chapter 48 when she curses her?
- A) She is angry at being kept hidden
- B) The hunger inside her takes over and speaks for her
- C) She secretly wants to leave her mother
- D) She is imitating the behavior of other children
13. What does Rebecca’s journal entry from 2008 reveal about her physical condition?
- A) She has developed immunity to the hunger
- B) She is weakened by frequent blood donations and an infection
- C) She is training to fight the FBI
- D) She has found a cure for Moonflower
Theme and Symbol (4 Questions)
14. What does the recurring motif of snow and cold represent in the novel?
- A) The purity of the mother-daughter bond
- B) The isolation and danger of their fugitive life
- C) A cleansing force that erases crime
- D) The passage of time
15. Which literary work is alluded to in Chapter 3 when Moonflower recalls a story about abortion?
- A) The Old Man and the Sea
- B) Hills Like White Elephants by Hemingway
- C) The Great Gatsby
- D) To Kill a Mockingbird
16. What does the “untethered string” that guides Moonflower represent?
- A) Her psychic connection to her mother
- B) The lingering bond of love
- C) A literal GPS implanted by the FBI
- D) Her supernatural ability to track prey
17. In the novel, why is Rebecca’s act of severing the spinal cord of her victims important?
- A) It ensures they cannot resurrect like Moonflower did
- B) It is a signature that taunts the police
- C) It proves she is a professional killer
- D) It is required by her code of honor
Synthesis (3 Questions)
18. Compare the way Donner and Rebecca each view Moonflower. What does this contrast suggest about the nature of humanity?
- A) Donner sees a monster; Rebecca sees a human child, challenging the definition of humanity
- B) Both see her as a threat; the novel argues that humanity is a spectrum
- C) Donner sees a victim; Rebecca sees a predator, which proves the novel is about perspective
- D) The contrast is unimportant to the theme
19. How does the novel use the concept of “the old way” (hunting at a mall food court) to critique societal structures?
- A) It shows that survival justifies any crime
- B) It exposes how predators hide in plain sight and how the system fails to protect the vulnerable
- C) It suggests that law enforcement is always one step behind
- D) It glorifies vigilante justice
20. What is the significance of Moonflower’s final howl answered by dogs in Chapter 60?
- A) It symbolizes her complete transformation into a feral creature
- B) It shows she has found a new pack and rejected humanity
- C) It represents her loss of identity and the breaking of the mother-daughter bond
- D) All of the above
Answer Key
1. B – Rebecca swerves to avoid an elk, causing the van to slide into a snowdrift (Chapter 1).
2. B – In Chapter 14, McGrath calls Donner with a lead from Flagstaff, Arizona, where a woman matching the killer’s description attempted a theft at a gas station.
3. C – Rebecca shoots an arrow into Craig Watters’ neck and then slits his throat (Chapter 21).
4. B – In Chapter 25, Rebecca claims Moonflower’s body walked out of the morgue on its own after she died.
5. B – Moonflower scales a fence at a small airport, sensing her mother is held there (Chapter 27).
6. B – Guthrie provides frozen blood bags preserved with polyvinyl alcohol (Chapter 40).
7. B – Rebecca is shot in the chest when Donner fires his revolver in the dark (Chapter 58).
8. B – The novel ends with Rebecca waking on a steel table, resurrected and hungry (Chapter 61).
9. C – In Chapter 15, Rebecca stops Moonflower from feeding because she fears Moonflower will lose control and never be able to stop.
10. B – Donner is driven by guilt over the Michael Roach case, where he failed to stop a killer (Chapter 8).
11. B – Guthrie’s mother was infected, refused to harm humans, and starved to death; he helps others out of compassion (Chapter 42).
12. B – The hunger is a separate, greedy entity that sometimes speaks through Moonflower, as shown in Chapter 48.
13. B – Rebecca writes that she is weakened by giving her own blood and suffering from an infection (Chapter 30).
14. B – Snow and cold constantly threaten the characters and underscore their isolation and precarious existence.
15. B – Moonflower recalls Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants, which deals with choice and consequence (Chapter 3).
16. B – In Chapter 27, Moonflower feels a “string” pulling her toward her mother, representing their unbreakable bond.
17. A – Rebecca severs the spinal cord to prevent the victim from resurrecting, as happened with Moonflower (Chapter 42).
18. A – Donner calls Moonflower a monster; Rebecca insists she is human. The novel explores what defines humanity.
19. B – The “old way” targets predators who exploit runaway children, criticizing society’s failure to protect the vulnerable.
20. D – The howl signifies Moonflower’s feral transformation, her new pack among animals, and the severing of her human ties.