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The Unauthorized Harry Potter Quiz Book
This is a Harry Potter quiz book like no other. It won't be asking you questions like "what school did Harry Potter go to?" (If you are a Harry Potter fan, then of course you know the answer!) Rather it asks questions which will develop your literary appreciation of the Harry Potter books and your general knowledge of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Some of these questions are easy, quite a few are fiendishly difficult, and several of them really don't have simple answers, but thinking about possible answers is what it is all about. No book achieves anything approaching the success of the Harry Potter series unless it includes something that makes us all think. This Harry Potter Quiz Book aims to draw your attention to some of these big questions. Knowing the name of Harry Potter's school is not likely to change the life of any one of us, but thinking about the moral issues raised in the books might do just that.
76 pages, Nook
First published June 9, 2008
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August 25, 2013
My friend and I are both huge Potterheads, and we like to go back and forth with Harry Potter trivia, so I was excited for this.
But I personally didn't really like this book. It is titled "The Unauthorized HARRY POTTER Quiz Book", so I expected there to be more questions actually about the world of Harry Potter, and not who J.K. Rowling's second husband was, what the inspiration for characters' names were, and "Are [the Harry Potter books] about magic and witchcraft?".
Also, I did not like that this book asked questions that were matters of opinion and then gave definite answers. Asking the questions is fine, and many of them were thought-provoking, but they should not be in the same format as "Who plays Harry?"
Overall, it was not a bad quiz book, but not something I'm going to be spending a lot of my time with.
But I personally didn't really like this book. It is titled "The Unauthorized HARRY POTTER Quiz Book", so I expected there to be more questions actually about the world of Harry Potter, and not who J.K. Rowling's second husband was, what the inspiration for characters' names were, and "Are [the Harry Potter books] about magic and witchcraft?".
Also, I did not like that this book asked questions that were matters of opinion and then gave definite answers. Asking the questions is fine, and many of them were thought-provoking, but they should not be in the same format as "Who plays Harry?"
Overall, it was not a bad quiz book, but not something I'm going to be spending a lot of my time with.
December 22, 2008
This is a Harry Potter quiz book like no other. It won't be asking you questions like "what school did Harry Potter go to?" (If you are a Harry Potter fan, then of course you know the answer!) Rather it asks questions which will develop your literary appreciation of the Harry Potter books and your general knowledge of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Some of these questions are easy, quite a few are fiendishly difficult, and several of them really don't have simple answers, but thinking about possible answers is what it is all about. Work through this quiz book (with an eye on the answers) and come out the other end with a much better understanding of the phenomenon that is Harry Potter.
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May 26, 2009really funny and exciting
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