Pop-Up Quiz

1) When was the first known movable book (a book with paper parts that move) created?

a) 1200’s
b) 1500’s
c) 1700’s
d) 1800’s

2) Why was the first movable book created?

a) To measure astronomical distances.
b) For help readers who were blind.
c) To aid monks in calculating holidays.
d) To predict the future.

3) When was the first known pop-up book (a book with a paper mechanism which becomes fully 3-dimensional) created?

a) 1200’s
b) 1500’s
c) 1700’s
d) 1800’s

4) Why was the first fully, 3-dimensional pop-up book created?

a) To entertain the children of royalty.
b) To show architecural models
c) To help doctors understand the working of the human body.
d) To help artists learn perspective.

5) Pop-up books are put together by:

a) Robot’s
b) Trained monkeys
c) People

6) Which country is NOT a major producer of pop-up books:

a) Australia
b) China
c) Ecuador
d) Colombia

7) The term “paper engineer”:

a) Comes from a Chinese description of “one who brings life to paper.”
b) Is from paper mill workers who use the word to describe pop-up makers.
c) Is completely made up.
d) Refers to one who has a degree in the designing of 3D paper forms.

8) A nesting sheet is:

a) A long strip of fabric that binds, or “nests” all the unassembled pop-up pieces.
b) When all the pop-up pieces have been placed very close together on the printed sheet.
c) The wooden pallet that holds or “nests” the finished pop-up books.
d) Designer fabrics used by birds to make a home.

9) In 1994 the first commercial children’s book that cost $19.95 hit stores. Which book was it?

a) Dr. Seuss’ “Oh, the places you’ll go!”
b) Maurice Sendak’s “Swine Lake.”
c) Robert Sabuda’s “The Christmas Alphabet.”
d) David A. Carter’s “Bugs in a Box!”

10) What does “MBS” stand for?

a) The Marlon Brando Showcase.
b) Major Baseball Security.
c) Monohydrate Bromine Sulfide.
d) The Movable Book Society.               Find the answers>>