Q 01/05

In Children of Blood and Bone, Zélie inherits her late mother's magic as which kind of maji?

A) Burner

B) Healer

C) Reaper

D) Seer

Answer · why

C) Reaper

A Reaper commands the spirits of the dead, a power Zélie shares with the parent she lost when King Saran's soldiers came for the maji.

Q 02/05

In Children of Blood and Bone, which physical trait marks a person as a divîner able to become a maji?

A) White hair

B) Violet eyes

C) Silver tattoos

D) A crescent scar

Answer · why

A) White hair

White hair marks every divîner, and Prince Inan is alarmed when a streak of it appears on his own head once his hidden magic stirs.

Q 03/05

In Children of Blood and Bone, which real language, outlawed by King Saran, do the maji use to cast spells?

A) Igbo

B) Yoruba

C) Hausa

D) Swahili

Answer · why

B) Yoruba

Yoruba is the tongue of incantation and prayer in Orïsha, and Tomi Adeyemi asked her own mother for help naming the spells.

Q 04/05

A gift-shop display of African gods in which country gave Tomi Adeyemi the idea for Children of Blood and Bone?

A) Ghana

B) Jamaica

C) Haiti

D) Brazil

Answer · why

D) Brazil

Brazil was where Adeyemi studied West African mythology on a fellowship, and the shop's sacred, beautiful images of African deities stayed with her.

Q 05/05

In Children of Blood and Bone, which wealthy, heavily patrolled city is the capital of Orïsha and home to King Saran?

A) Lagos

B) Abuja

C) Kano

D) Enugu

Answer · why

A) Lagos

Lagos keeps its real-world name in the novel, and its palace is where the princess steals the scroll that sets the quest in motion.