Children of Blood and Bone Quizzes

Children of Blood and Bone Quiz Chapters 1 – 17

1 What comfort does Zélie associate with her mother?
Toys

Tea

Rice

Blankets
2 Why does Mama Agba train girls to use the staff?
It is a weapon for protection, not violence

The staff can be used for other purposes, like carrying water

Maji are not allowed to carry swords

The staff is easy to hide under a dashiki
3 Why does Zélie want to fight Yemi?
Yemi's parents were responsible for the Raid

Yemi is the best in the class

Zélie can only graduate if she beats Yemi

Yemi bullies Zélie for being a divîner
4 Why do the guards enter Mama Agba's school?
To collect increased taxes

To arrest Zélie for insubordination

To investigate rumors that the tailor's shop is actually a girl's school

To purchase new uniforms
5 Why does Baba need to be constantly monitored?
Ever since the Raid, he suffers frequent blackouts

He often hears Mama calling to him, and follows her voice

He makes irresponsible financial decisions, like selling the boat

He lost his ability to walk during the Raid
6 Why does Baba sell the fishing boat, the family's only source of income?
He needed money to pay for Zélie's school fees

Confused, he thought the boat belonged to another family

He needed money to buy alcohol, to which he became addicted after the Raid

If he cannot pay taxes, Zélie will be taken to the stocks
7 Why does Amari go with Tzain to Lagos?
Baba refuses to let Tzain go alone

She can protect him with her training

Nailah will not carry Tzain without Zélie

She is better at bartering than him
8 Why does Zélie want to avoid the stocks?
No one will be left to take care of Baba if she goes

People in the stocks are worked to death

She will not be able to speak Yoruba if she joins

Zélie wants to finish her education before going
9 Why do the oloyes criticize Amari?
She does not follow royal protocol

Her skin is dark

She is not King Saran's biological daughter

She is close friends with a divîner
10 How does Amari realize Binta is in trouble?
The oloyes discuss divîners being removed from the palace

A new servant serves her dinner

She senses Binta through her magic

She hears Binta scream
11 According to Commander Kaea, how can divîners restore their magic?
By touching a sacred artifact

By restoring their connection to the Sky Mother

By participating in blood magic

By undergoing a ritual on the island of Zaria
12 What is King Saran's relationship to Kaea?
They are siblings

They are political rivals

They are lovers

They are best friends
13 What happens when Binta touches the scroll?
She summons water

Nothing

Her hands glow

She dies instantly
14 How does King Saran react to Binta's magic?
He stabs her

He gives her a job as a mage

He kicks her out of the palace

He puts her in the dungeon
15 What does Amari do after leaving the throne room?
She escapes the palace and heads to the fish market

She returns to her dinner and pretends that nothing happened

She finds Inan and asks for his help

She goes to her father's chamber and finds the scroll
16 What is NOT true about the slums in Lagos?
They are Zélie's birthplace

They are mostly populated by divîners

They are beautified with art

They are derelict
17 How does Zélie convince the noble to buy the fish?
She suggests not even the King will eat such a fine fish

She threatens him with her staff

She plays on the man's sympathy

She claims the fish will give him magic
18 Why does Zélie decide to help Amari?
Amari promised to give Zélie her headdress as payment

Zélie recognizes Amari's maji heritage

Zélie couldn't live with herself if she didn't protect her

Not helping a royal is a capital offense
19 Why does Inan feel he does not deserve the title of Captain?
He is too young for such a position

Amari escaped under his watch

He could not apprehend the fugitive

He was attracted to a divîner
20 Why is Inan surprised to learn Saran severed the maji's spiritual connection to the gods?
The maji still practice their religion

The nobility believe the gods are not real

Only maji can sever spiritual connections

Inan was taught magic was a disease
21 What does Mama Agba reveal about her identity that surprises Zélie?
She is of noble descent

She trained Zélie's mother

She is Zélie's grandmother

She is a Seer
22 Why does Amari's reaction to Ilorin confuse Zélie?
Amari marvels at the village, though she grew up in a palace

Amari criticizes the village, though she seemed kind

Amari says she remembers Ilorin, though she has never been there

Amari is shocked Ilorin's poverty; Zélie thought Amari knew about maji discrimination
23 How does Inan deduce Zélie harbored Amari out of Lagos?
Divîners have to give their names at the city gates

He knew Amari would only trust a girl who looked like Binta

He recognized Tzain from agbön tournaments

He saw Zélie in his dreams and asked her name
24 What does Mama Agba predict Amari, Tzain, and Zélie will do?
They will become friends

They will kill King Saran

They will destroy magic

They will climb to to Chândomblé
25 How does Inan figure out Amari was in Sokoto?
He smells her spirit

He sees her in a vision

He remembered Amari saying she always wanted to see Sokoto

A merchant has her headdress