Q 01/05

In All the Light We Cannot See, the Sea of Flames hunted by a Nazi sergeant major is what kind of gem?

A) A ruby

B) A diamond

C) A sapphire

D) An emerald

Answer · why

B) A diamond

A diamond found by a prince in a dry riverbed in Borneo, the Sea of Flames is blue with a touch of red at its centre. That flash of colour gives the s...

Q 02/05

Which Jules Verne novel does Marie-Laure broadcast from the attic in All the Light We Cannot See?

A) Around the World in Eighty Days

B) The Mysterious Island

C) Five Weeks in a Balloon

D) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Answer · why

D) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea goes out in instalments, read from braille between her pleas for help. Werner, trapped under a bombed hotel, picks up the...

Q 03/05

What job does Marie-Laure's father Daniel hold at the Museum of Natural History in All the Light We Cannot See?

A) Taxidermist

B) Locksmith

C) Clockmaker

D) Gem cutter

Answer · why

B) Locksmith

Locksmith Daniel LeBlanc runs the museum's key pound, where thousands of keys are handed out and returned each day. The same craft later draws him int...

Q 04/05

How is Etienne, who shelters Marie-Laure in his Saint-Malo house, related to her in All the Light We Cannot See?

A) Her godfather

B) Her mother's cousin

C) Her great-uncle

D) Her stepfather

Answer · why

C) Her great-uncle

Her great-uncle Etienne is a war veteran who has shut himself indoors for years. Marie-Laure's arrival, and her delight in his books and radios, slowl...

Q 05/05

Which objects, falling from the sky over Saint-Malo, give the opening chapter of All the Light We Cannot See its title?

A) Leaflets

B) Parachutes

C) Flares

D) Ashes

Answer · why

A) Leaflets

Leaflets pour down on 7 August 1944, ordering the townspeople to get out before the bombers come. Marie-Laure finds one at her window but, being blind...