Good Bad Girl Quiz: 20 Questions to Test Your Memory

Ready to prove you've untangled Alice Feeney's twists? This 20-question quiz spans the full novel, from the Mother's Day abduction to the final, ambiguous resolution. Questions are divided into plot, character motivation, theme/symbol, and synthesis. An answer key with explanations follows.

Plot and Sequence Questions (8)

1. On Mother's Day, a baby is taken from a supermarket buggy. Who is the baby?

a) Clio's daughter Eleanor
b) Edith's daughter Clio
c) Frankie's daughter Nellie
d) Patience's baby

2. Where does Frankie work as a librarian at the start of the novel?

a) HMP Pentonville
b) HMP Crossroads
c) HMP Holloway
d) HMP Wormwood Scrubs

3. What is Clio Kennedy's profession? (Short answer)

4. Which character is the care-home manager who is murdered at Windsor Care Home?

a) Joy Bonetta
b) Edith Elliot
c) May Chapman
d) DCI Chapman

5. During her first therapy session with Clio, what does Frankie steal from the room? (Short answer)

6. Who is Patience's cellmate in prison?

a) Liberty
b) Nellie
c) Frankie
d) Edith

7. How does Edith die?

a) She suffers a heart attack after stopping her medication.
b) Joy murders her in the care home.
c) Clio kills her in a struggle.
d) She dies in a fire at the care home.

8. What is the name of Clio's daughter who was kidnapped as a baby? (Short answer)

Character Motivation Questions (5)

9. Why does Frankie take Clio's baby from the supermarket?

a) She wanted a child of her own.
b) She believed Clio did not love the baby enough.
c) Edith paid her to do it.
d) She mistook the baby for her own sister.

10. Why does Patience help Edith escape from Windsor Care Home?

a) She is a professional thief.
b) She feels guilty and wants to protect Edith.
c) Jude pays her to do it.
d) She hopes to inherit Edith's house.

11. Clio keeps a room full of unworn trainers. What does this collection represent for her? (Short answer)

12. Why does Edith initially confess to killing Joy Bonetta?

a) She wants to avoid implicating Patience.
b) She wants to frame Clio.
c) She is trying to protect her son Jude.
d) She wants to take the blame for the family.

13. What is Frankie's primary motivation for the lies and crimes she commits throughout the novel? (Short answer)

Theme and Symbol Questions (4)

14. The silver ladybug ring appears on several characters. What does it most clearly symbolise?

a) Good luck
b) The bond between mothers and daughters
c) Frankie's criminal past
d) Patience's innocence

15. Papercut art plays a key role in the story. What does it generally represent? (Short answer)

16. The phrase "good people sometimes have to do bad things" recurs. What theme does it support?

a) Moral ambiguity and justifiable wrongdoing
b) The importance of following the law
c) That everyone is secretly evil
d) That crime always pays in the end

17. An old ten-pound note is used as a clue. What does it symbolise? (Short answer)

Synthesis Questions (3)

18. The novel opens and closes on Mother's Day, twenty years apart. This circular structure primarily emphasises that:

a) family patterns repeat across generations
b) the whole story is a dream
c) Mother's Day is the most important holiday
d) the characters are stuck in a time loop

19. In the story, Frankie is both a kidnapper and a loving mother who loses her own daughter. In what way is she portrayed as both a villain and a victim? (Short answer)

20. The true identity of Joy's killer is left ambiguous at the end. Which character's involvement is most deliberately obscured?

a) Frankie
b) Clio
c) Patience
d) Edith

Answer Key

1. a) Clio's daughter Eleanor. [Outline chapters 1, 43, 56: the baby stolen is Clio's infant.]
2. b) HMP Crossroads. [Chapter 2: Frankie is head librarian at HMP Crossroads.]
3. Therapist (or psychologist). [Chapters 11, 14: Clio runs a therapy practice from her pink house.]
4. a) Joy Bonetta. [Chapter 17: DCI Chapman investigates the murder of care-home manager Joy Bonetta.]
5. A framed papercut artwork. [Chapter 12: The client steals a papercut and leaves an old ten-pound note.]
6. a) Liberty. [Chapter 35: Patience is assigned a cell with Liberty.]
7. a) She suffers a heart attack after stopping her heart medication. [Chapter 53: doctor says she had a heart-muscle issue and may have stopped taking pills.]
8. Eleanor (also called Ladybug and later Nellie). [Chapter 60: Edith's letter mentions Eleanor; chapter 66: Patience reveals she is Eleanor.]
9. b) She believed Clio did not love the baby enough. [Chapter 62: Frankie tells Clio "you didn't love her".]
10. b) She feels guilty and wants to protect Edith. [Chapter 10: guilt over Edith consumes her; chapter 20: she cares deeply for Edith.]
11. A coping mechanism for the grief of losing her daughter Eleanor. [Chapter 37: the trainers represent control and a substitute for her lost family.]
12. d) She wants to take the blame for the family. [Chapter 58: Edith confesses to protect Patience and Clio; chapter 68 letter: she planned to confess to protect her family.]
13. Protecting her daughter Nellie (maternal love). [Chapter 40: "the happiness her mistakes gave her outweighs sorrow… she needs to find her daughter.]
14. b) The bond between mothers and daughters. [Chapter 60: Edith had three rings made for herself, Clio, and Clio's daughter – a family symbol.]
15. Hidden identity, secrets, or deception. [Patience is a secret papercut artist; Frankie uses a papercut to identify her missing daughter; papercuts hide truth.]
16. a) Moral ambiguity and justifiable wrongdoing. [Chapter 70: Nellie reflects that good people sometimes must do bad things.]
17. The price of betrayal / the amount Edith paid Frankie to turn away Clio's first baby. [Chapter 62: Frankie says the note was the amount Edith paid her; chapter 68 confirms.]
18. a) family patterns repeat across generations. [The abduction echoes Clio's earlier loss; the final Mother's Day shows a new family unit.]
19. She is a villain because she kidnapped a baby, but she is also a victim of abuse (her adoptive mother locked her in a cupboard) and the loss of her own daughter. [Chapters 57, 62: Frankie's traumatic childhood and later grief.]
20. b) Clio. (Alternatively, Patience; but Clio's involvement in the killing is most deliberately obscured by the open ending. Evidence: chapter 69 shows Clio and Patience both participated; chapter 70 leaves the mystery unresolved.)*