Children of Blood and Bone Quizzes

Children of Blood and Bone Quiz Chapters 1 – 17

1 What comfort does Zélie associate with her mother?
Blankets

Toys

Rice

Tea
2 Why does Mama Agba train girls to use the staff?
The staff is easy to hide under a dashiki

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

It is a weapon for protection, not violence

Maji are not allowed to carry swords
3 Why does Zélie want to fight Yemi?
Yemi bullies Zélie for being a divîner

Yemi is the best in the class

Yemi's parents were responsible for the Raid

Zélie can only graduate if she beats Yemi
4 Why do the guards enter Mama Agba's school?
To collect increased taxes

To purchase new uniforms

To arrest Zélie for insubordination

To investigate rumors that the tailor's shop is actually a girl's school
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?
Confused, he thought the boat belonged to another family

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

He needed money to pay for Zélie's school fees

If he cannot pay taxes, Zélie will be taken to the stocks
7 Why does Amari go with Tzain to Lagos?
Nailah will not carry Tzain without Zélie

She can protect him with her training

She is better at bartering than him

Baba refuses to let Tzain go alone
8 Why does Zélie want to avoid the stocks?
People in the stocks are worked to death

She will not be able to speak Yoruba if she joins

No one will be left to take care of Baba if she goes

Zélie wants to finish her education before going
9 Why do the oloyes criticize Amari?
Her skin is dark

She is close friends with a divîner

She is not King Saran's biological daughter

She does not follow royal protocol
10 How does Amari realize Binta is in trouble?
A new servant serves her dinner

The oloyes discuss divîners being removed from the palace

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 participating in blood magic

By undergoing a ritual on the island of Zaria

By restoring their connection to the Sky Mother
12 What is King Saran's relationship to Kaea?
They are political rivals

They are lovers

They are best friends

They are siblings
13 What happens when Binta touches the scroll?
Nothing

She dies instantly

She summons water

Her hands glow
14 How does King Saran react to Binta's magic?
He kicks her out of the palace

He stabs her

He puts her in the dungeon

He gives her a job as a mage
15 What does Amari do after leaving the throne room?
She returns to her dinner and pretends that nothing happened

She goes to her father's chamber and finds the scroll

She finds Inan and asks for his help

She escapes the palace and heads to the fish market
16 What is NOT true about the slums in Lagos?
They are derelict

They are Zélie's birthplace

They are mostly populated by divîners

They are beautified with art
17 How does Zélie convince the noble to buy the fish?
She plays on the man's sympathy

She threatens him with her staff

She claims the fish will give him magic

She suggests not even the King will eat such a fine fish
18 Why does Zélie decide to help Amari?
Zélie couldn't live with herself if she didn't protect her

Zélie recognizes Amari's maji heritage

Not helping a royal is a capital offense

Amari promised to give Zélie her headdress as payment
19 Why does Inan feel he does not deserve the title of Captain?
He is too young for such a position

He could not apprehend the fugitive

He was attracted to a divîner

Amari escaped under his watch
20 Why is Inan surprised to learn Saran severed the maji's spiritual connection to the gods?
The maji still practice their religion

Only maji can sever spiritual connections

The nobility believe the gods are not real

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

She trained Zélie's mother

She is Zélie's grandmother

She is of noble descent
22 Why does Amari's reaction to Ilorin confuse Zélie?
Amari criticizes the village, though she seemed kind

Amari marvels at the village, though she grew up in a palace

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?
He recognized Tzain from agbön tournaments

Divîners have to give their names at the city gates

He saw Zélie in his dreams and asked her name

He knew Amari would only trust a girl who looked like Binta
24 What does Mama Agba predict Amari, Tzain, and Zélie will do?
They will become friends

They will destroy magic

They will climb to to Chândomblé

They will kill King Saran
25 How does Inan figure out Amari was in Sokoto?
He smells her spirit

A merchant has her headdress

He sees her in a vision

He remembered Amari saying she always wanted to see Sokoto