Authors on the Web - Jacquelyn Mitchard

Jacquelyn Mitchard Trivia

1. Jacquelyn Mitchard was chosen as one of "Ladies' Home Journal's Most Fascinating Women" in what year:
A) 1995
B) 1996
C) 1997
D) 1998

2. Who played Pat Cappador in the film version of The Deep End of The Ocean:
A) Bruce Willis
B) Bill Paxton
C) Treat Williams
D) William H. Macy

3. The premise of A Theory of Relativity was based on a real adoption case (and was soon mirrored by events in Mitchard's own life). The outcome of the case changed adoption laws in many states so that the statute now clearly states:
A) The mandatory waiting period before adoptions are final is 6 months
B) The mother's blood relatives have adoption preference over the father's relatives.
C) Adoption by relatives does not apply to blood relatives through adoption
D) Adoption by relatives applies to blood relatives through birth or adoption

4. Of Mitchard's six children, how many are adopted:
A) 3
B) 4
C) 5
D) 6

5. Mitchard won an Audie Award for which of the following books:
A) A Theory of Relativity
B) The Deep End of The Ocean
C) The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship
D) The Most Wanted

6. For which magazines does Mitchard write regularly:
A) Ladies Home Journal and Woman's Day
B) Redbook and Parenting
C) Woman's Day and Redbook
D) Ladies Home Journal and Parenting

7. Surprisingly --- considering her bestselling, Oprah-author status --- Mitchard's second book, The Most Wanted, only sold:
A) 250,000 copies
B) 300,000 copies
C) 350,000 copies
D) 400,000 copies

8. Mitchard is a practicing:
A) Catholic
B) Vegetarian
C) Herbalist
D) all of the above

9. What was the title of Mitchard's first book:
A) The Deep End of the Ocean
B) The Rest of Us
C) Mother Less Child
D) The Most Wanted

10. Mitchard's bestselling The Deep End of the Ocean was based on:
A) a dream she had
B) a family she knew
C) an article she wrote
D) a song