Q 01/05

In Magnus Chase, the magic golden hair of Thor's wife Sif is said to have inspired which fairy tale?

A) Goldilocks

B) Cinderella

C) Rapunzel

D) Snow White

Answer · why

C) Rapunzel

Rapunzel owes her legend to Sif in the books, whose golden hair replaced the locks Loki cut off as a trick. The new hair can be worked into precious o...

Q 02/05

In The Ship of the Dead, Magnus Chase's crew finally imprisons the shrunken god Loki inside what?

A) A walnut

B) An acorn

C) A seashell

D) A thimble

Answer · why

A) A walnut

A walnut does the job: Loki shrinks to the size of a nut when Magnus answers his insults with praise for his friends, and Mallory Keen snaps the shell...

Q 03/05

Which grunge-era rock star is the blond, long-haired hero Magnus Chase said to resemble?

A) Eddie Vedder

B) Kurt Cobain

C) Chris Cornell

D) Layne Staley

Answer · why

B) Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain is the comparison the books make for Magnus, with his chin-length blond hair and gray eyes. Dying changes the look: he wakes in Valhalla f...

Q 04/05

Naglfar, the ship Loki means to sail to Ragnarok in Magnus Chase, is built entirely from what?

A) Dragon scales and sinew

B) Whalebone and walrus ivory

C) Shields and broken spears

D) Fingernails and toenails

Answer · why

D) Fingernails and toenails

Fingernails and toenails of the dead make up Naglfar, a detail taken straight from Norse myth. In the books the ship lies frozen in ice until Loki can...

Q 05/05

X, the half-troll rooming near Magnus Chase in Hotel Valhalla, is really which god in disguise?

A) Odin

B) Thor

C) Loki

D) Balder

Answer · why

A) Odin

Odin spends the first book undercover as X so he can inspect his own hotel's warriors unnoticed. The staff believed their boss had been missing for tw...