New Moon Book Quiz
Eight multiple-choice questions on Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon (2006) — plot, characters and the moments everyone quotes. Two minutes, instant score, every answer explained below. For the full mixed-classics version, take the original book quiz — 15 questions across the whole canon.
All 8 questions and answers
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- Why does the Cullen family leave Forks? — Jasper's attack at Bella's birthday party convinces Edward she is safer without them. One paper cut, one lunge, one wiped room - and Edward decides the only way to keep Bella alive is to remove himself completely.
- What exactly does Edward say when he leaves Bella in the forest? — 'It will be as if I'd never existed'. He lies that he no longer wants her - and makes the promise total: no trace, no trace of him left in her life.
- How does Bella cope with the absence? — She hears Edward's voice when she does something reckless. The hallucinated voice is the addiction - motorcycles, cliff diving, whatever it takes to hear him warn her again.
- What is Jacob Black's secret? — He is a werewolf, protector of La Push. The Quileute wolves are the treaty's teeth - the reason the Cullens can't come back, and the reason Victoria doesn't reach Bella.
- Why does Alice suddenly return to Forks? — She foresaw Bella's cliff dive and believes it was suicide. Alice can't see the wolves, so the dive looked fatal - one stolen sports car and one continent later, Edward is walking into the sun.
- Why does Edward go to the Volturi in Italy? — He believes Bella is dead and wants to be killed. He asks for death, is refused - and plans the one crime they cannot ignore: stepping into sunlight in Volterra at noon.
- How does Bella stop him in the piazza? — She pushes through the crowd and blocks him before he reaches the light. A clock tower, a thousand candles of a festival, and Bella's body between him and the sun - the series' most famous set piece.
- What does the Cullen family vote on at the end? — Whether to change Bella into a vampire. One by one they vote yes - and Edward, outvoted, sets his own condition: marry me first.
About New Moon
On her eighteenth birthday Bella gets a paper cut, a vampire almost kills her by accident, and Edward makes the decision that defines the book: the Cullens leave Forks so she can have a human life. What follows is four hundred pages of grief - blank months on a calendar, a rebuilt motorcycle, and a werewolf best friend - until a vision of a cliff dive drags Edward to Italy to die. The novel runs about 132,758 words (roughly 563 pages in a standard paperback) — about 9 hours and 18 minutes of reading at an average pace. Before you commit, see the full breakdown in how long it takes to read New Moon or calculate reading time for any other book.
Easy, fast prose - the emotional pitch is the difficulty, not the words. The middle stretch is genuinely bleak before the Volturi chapters turn it into a race. If you get 6 or more of the eight questions right, the book clearly stuck.
What this quiz covers
Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon sits in our romance & coming-of-age shelf, and the eight questions follow the book the way a reader experiences it: how the story opens, the turn in the middle, the characters who carry it, and the ending people still argue about. You will not be asked for page numbers or publication trivia — but three or four questions are built to separate people who read the book from people who read a summary. If a question stumps you, that gap is your reading list talking.
Fair warning for the ambitious: readers who clear this quiz often move straight to the reading-time breakdown for New Moon to plan the reread, then test the rest of their shelf against the mixed classic literature quiz.
More book quizzes
Twilight quiz, The Fault in Our Stars quiz, It Ends with Us quiz, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo quiz, 1984 quiz, Animal Farm quiz, Brave New World quiz — or browse every book quiz on the site. For scale, New Moon is the 35th longest of the 133 classics timed here — shorter than The Odyssey but longer than Rebecca.
Doing the whole author? Our Stephenie Meyer books in order guide lists every book with the best entry point.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the New Moon quiz?
Eight multiple-choice questions covering Stephenie Meyer's plot, characters and most famous moments. The quiz takes about two minutes and your score is instant.
Is the New Moon book quiz free?
Yes — no signup, no email, nothing to install. Answer the eight questions and get your score immediately.
What score should I aim for?
8/8 means you know the book cold; 6+ is a solid score. Below 4, the book is calling you back for a reread.
Is the New Moon quiz hard?
Easy, fast prose - the emotional pitch is the difficulty, not the words. The middle stretch is genuinely bleak before the Volturi chapters turn it into a race. The questions themselves stick to famous, load-bearing moments — the scenes and lines the book is remembered for — so a genuine read usually scores 6+.
How long is the New Moon reading itself?
About 132,758 words — roughly 563 pages, or about 9 hours and 18 minutes at an average pace. The full pace breakdown is in how long it takes to read New Moon. It runs 24 chapters, averaging 5,531 words each; see the book-count guide for its full structure.