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

Tea

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

Maji are not allowed to carry swords

The staff is easy to hide under a dashiki

The staff can be used for other purposes, like carrying water
3 Why does Zélie want to fight Yemi?
Yemi is the best in the class

Zélie can only graduate if she beats Yemi

Yemi's parents were responsible for the Raid

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

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

To collect increased taxes

To purchase new uniforms
5 Why does Baba need to be constantly monitored?
He lost his ability to walk during the Raid

Ever since the Raid, he suffers frequent blackouts

He makes irresponsible financial decisions, like selling the boat

He often hears Mama calling to him, and follows her voice
6 Why does Baba sell the fishing boat, the family's only source of income?
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

He needed money to pay for Zélie's school fees

Confused, he thought the boat belonged to another family
7 Why does Amari go with Tzain to Lagos?
Baba refuses to let Tzain go alone

She can protect him with her training

She is better at bartering than him

Nailah will not carry Tzain without Zélie
8 Why does Zélie want to avoid the stocks?
Zélie wants to finish her education before going

She will not be able to speak Yoruba if she joins

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

People in the stocks are worked to death
9 Why do the oloyes criticize Amari?
She is close friends with a divîner

She is not King Saran's biological daughter

Her skin is dark

She does not follow royal protocol
10 How does Amari realize Binta is in trouble?
She senses Binta through her magic

The oloyes discuss divîners being removed from the palace

She hears Binta scream

A new servant serves her dinner
11 According to Commander Kaea, how can divîners restore their magic?
By undergoing a ritual on the island of Zaria

By restoring their connection to the Sky Mother

By participating in blood magic

By touching a sacred artifact
12 What is King Saran's relationship to Kaea?
They are best friends

They are political rivals

They are siblings

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

Her hands glow

She dies instantly

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

He kicks her out of the palace

He gives her a job as a mage

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 finds Inan and asks for his help

She returns to her dinner and pretends that nothing happened

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

They are beautified with art

They are derelict

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

She claims the fish will give him magic

She suggests not even the King will eat such a fine fish

She threatens him with her staff
18 Why does Zélie decide to help Amari?
Zélie recognizes Amari's maji heritage

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

Amari promised to give Zélie her headdress as payment

Not helping a royal is a capital offense
19 Why does Inan feel he does not deserve the title of Captain?
He could not apprehend the fugitive

Amari escaped under his watch

He is too young for such a position

He was attracted to a divîner
20 Why is Inan surprised to learn Saran severed the maji's spiritual connection to the gods?
The nobility believe the gods are not real

Only maji can sever spiritual connections

The maji still practice their religion

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 is Zélie's grandmother

She is a Seer

She trained Zélie's mother
22 Why does Amari's reaction to Ilorin confuse Zélie?
Amari is shocked Ilorin's poverty; Zélie thought Amari knew about maji discrimination

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

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

Amari criticizes the village, though she seemed kind
23 How does Inan deduce Zélie harbored Amari out of Lagos?
He knew Amari would only trust a girl who looked like Binta

Divîners have to give their names at the city gates

He saw Zélie in his dreams and asked her name

He recognized Tzain from agbön tournaments
24 What does Mama Agba predict Amari, Tzain, and Zélie will do?
They will kill King Saran

They will destroy magic

They will climb to to Chândomblé

They will become friends
25 How does Inan figure out Amari was in Sokoto?
He smells her spirit

He sees her in a vision

A merchant has her headdress

He remembered Amari saying she always wanted to see Sokoto