The Midnight Library Quiz
Try out this The Midnight Library quiz to test your knowledge. The Midnight Library trivia invites readers into Matt Haig’s 2020 speculative novel about Nora Seed, who enters a mysterious library where each book reveals a different version of the life she might have lived.
15 questions
~3 min to finish
Easy to hard difficulty
260 pts max score
Question 1 · Medium · 20 pts
Before the story starts opening cosmic what-ifs, what town does Nora's root life begin in?
Question 2 · Hard · 40 pts
What core story device drives the novel's structure: time travel, memory loss, or what?
Question 3 · Hard · 40 pts
The novel's main fantastical setting is not a portal, machine, or spaceship. What is it instead?
Question 4 · Easy · 10 pts
A recurring tension in the story contrasts imagined lives with what?
Question 5 · Easy · 10 pts
Is the protagonist of The Midnight Library male or female?
Question 6 · Medium · 20 pts
The story keeps asking one giant human question. What is it about?
Question 7 · Easy · 10 pts
After returning, how does Nora decide to approach her life?
Question 8 · Easy · 10 pts
At what kind of moment does Nora enter the Midnight Library?
Question 9 · Easy · 10 pts
What does the Book of Regrets list for Nora?
Question 10 · Easy · 10 pts
What is the name of Nora's neighbor?
Question 11 · Easy · 10 pts
What language is The Midnight Library written in?
Question 12 · Easy · 10 pts
What amazing chance does the library give Nora?
Question 13 · Medium · 20 pts
What magical trick powers the library's shelves: what acts as gateways to possible lives?
Question 14 · Medium · 20 pts
What emotional weather is Nora stuck in at the very start of the novel?
Question 15 · Medium · 20 pts
What does the novel link together every time Nora's life changes again?