Quiz Blue Sisters Coco Mellors

Blue Sisters Quiz: 20 Questions to Test Your Understanding

Welcome to the Blue Sisters quiz, based on Coco Mellors’ 2024 novel. This quiz has 20 questions: 8 on plot and sequence, 5 on character motivation, 4 on theme and symbol, and 3 on synthesis. Each question is either multiple-choice or short-answer. After you finish, check the answer key at the bottom for brief explanations.

For more discussions, see the main book page, questions and answers, and the ending explained.

Quiz Questions

Plot and Sequence (Questions 1–8)

  1. Which event first brings the three surviving Blue sisters back together in New York?
    A. Nicky’s funeral
    B. The need to sell the family apartment and pack Nicky’s belongings
    C. Avery’s affair with Charlie
    D. Lucky’s overdose in London

  2. Where does Lucky vomit during a fashion show in Paris?
    A. Into a toilet
    B. Onto the runway below
    C. Into her hands
    D. Out a window

  3. Who throws in the towel during Bonnie’s final title defense?
    A. Bonnie herself
    B. Her coach, Pavel
    C. The referee
    D. Her sister Avery

  4. What does Avery do during her visit to her mother’s cabin upstate?
    A. She confesses her affair to her mother
    B. She steals from a newsstand (and later returns the items)
    C. She tells her mother she is pregnant
    D. She burns Nicky’s leftover belongings

  5. What triggers the major fight between Avery and Lucky in London?
    A. Lucky criticizes Avery’s job as a lawyer
    B. Avery finds Lucky unconscious in the bathtub
    C. Lucky refuses to attend an AA meeting
    D. Avery learns Lucky has been stealing from her

  6. After beating a man in a bar fight, where does Bonnie hide?
    A. In her Venice Beach apartment
    B. At her mother’s cabin
    C. In a motel in New Jersey
    D. At Pavel’s house

  7. In the epilogue, what name do Bonnie and Pavel give their daughter?
    A. Lucky
    B. Nicole
    C. Avery
    D. Chiti

  8. What does Lucky do on the Williamsburg Bridge after her relapse?
    A. She calls Avery to apologize
    B. She attends her first AA meeting
    C. She jumps into the river (but is saved)
    D. She meets a former boxing coach

Character Motivation (Questions 9–13)

  1. Why does Avery agree to try for a baby with Chiti, despite her ambivalence? (Short answer)

  2. What motivates Bonnie to quit boxing after her last fight? (Short answer)

  3. Why does Lucky continue to drink heavily in the year after Nicky’s death? (Short answer)

  4. What leads Avery to begin an affair with Charlie, the poet she meets at AA? (Short answer)

  5. Why does Pavel refuse to train Bonnie when she returns to Golden Ring gym? (Short answer)

Theme and Symbol (Questions 14–17)

  1. What do the framed blue butterflies that Lucky keeps above her bed represent?
    A. Her modeling career
    B. Nicky’s presence and love
    C. Freedom from addiction
    D. The family’s lost apartment

  2. The Spice Girls T‑shirt that the sisters find while sorting Nicky’s belongings triggers memories of what?
    A. A family trip to London
    B. Nicky’s desperate need to fit in
    C. Bonnie’s first boxing match
    D. Avery’s teenage rebellion

  3. What does the tar that stains Bonnie’s feet in Los Angeles symbolize?
    A. Her connection to nature
    B. Contamination and the inability to cleanse her guilt
    C. Her gritty boxing origins
    D. The pollution of the city

  4. The epilogue’s focus on the newborn Nicole primarily represents which theme?
    A. Rebirth and legacy
    B. The cycle of addiction
    C. Parental neglect
    D. The burden of expectation

Synthesis (Questions 18–20)

  1. How does the novel contrast sisterhood with friendship? Provide at least one example from the text. (Short answer)

  2. Describe how each of the three surviving sisters copes with addiction differently. (Short answer)

  3. The prologue states, “As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found.” How does the novel’s ending support this statement? (Short answer)

Answer Key

Plot and Sequence Answers

  1. B. Bonnie learns the family apartment must be sold, and the sisters reunite in New York to pack Nicky’s things. (Chapters 2 and 5)
  2. D. After a night of drinking, Lucky vomits out a window during a couture fitting (Chapter 1).
  3. B. Pavel throws in the towel to stop Bonnie’s fight, ending her career (Chapter 2).
  4. B. Avery steals from a newsstand but later returns the items during her visit (Chapter 12).
  5. B. Avery finds Lucky unconscious in the bathtub and desperately repeats, “Not you. Not you too.” (Chapter 5)
  6. A. Bonnie hides in her Venice Beach apartment after the fight (Chapter 5).
  7. B. They name their daughter Nicole, after the deceased sister Nicky (Epilogue).
  8. B. Lucky walks across the Williamsburg Bridge and then attends her first AA meeting (Chapter 10).

Character Motivation Answers

  1. Answer: Avery agrees because she feels guilty about her past addiction and wants to please Chiti, even though she is not ready for motherhood. (Chapter 4)
  2. Answer: Bonnie quits boxing due to overwhelming guilt over refusing Nicky’s request for painkillers, unrequited feelings for Pavel, and the traumatic end of her last fight. (Chapters 2 and 8)
  3. Answer: Lucky drinks to escape the pain of grief, loneliness, and unresolved trauma from her childhood and career. (Chapter 1 and throughout)
  4. Answer: Avery, already struggling with her marriage and relapsing into addictive behaviors (smoking, stealing), bonds with Charlie over their shared loss of a loved one to overdose, leading to infidelity. (Chapter 7)
  5. Answer: Pavel avoids Bonnie because he cannot think clearly around her and still feels guilty about stopping her fight; he reassigns her to another trainer. (Chapter 8)

Theme and Symbol Answers

  1. B. The blue butterflies are a gift from Nicky, symbolizing her ongoing presence and love for Lucky (Prologue).
  2. B. The T‑shirt reminds the sisters of Nicky’s lifelong desire to be normal and fit in (Chapter 9).
  3. B. The tar that refuses to wash off represents Bonnie’s lingering guilt and emotional contamination (Chapter 2).
  4. A. The birth of Nicole symbolizes new life, hope, and the continuation of the Blue sisters’ legacy, honoring Nicky (Epilogue).

Synthesis Answers

  1. Answer: The prologue explicitly states that a sister is not a friend because sisterhood is primal and unchoosable. For example, despite huge fights, Avery and Lucky ultimately care for each other, while Lucky’s model friends are superficial. The epilogue shows the sisters united around the newborn, a bond friendship cannot replicate.
  2. Answer: Avery had a history of heroin addiction and relapses into smoking, stealing, and an affair; she attends AA and eventually seeks honesty. Bonnie never drinks but is addicted to discipline and violence; she channels that into boxing. Lucky abuses alcohol and cocaine to numb grief, but by the epilogue she has completed sixty days of rehab. Each addiction is a coping mechanism for loss.
  3. Answer: The ending shows all three sisters finding new paths: Avery reconciles with her family and honesty, Lucky achieves sobriety, Bonnie returns to boxing and becomes a mother. Their reunion around baby Nicole proves that even after great loss, they can be “found” again—together and alive.