Q 01/05

The first Temujai invasion recalled in The Battle for Skandia collapsed when their ruler died of what?

A) A battle wound

B) Bad shellfish

C) A riding fall

D) Winter fever

Answer · why

B) Bad shellfish

Bad shellfish killed the Sha'shan, and the three kinsmen commanding the invasion hurried home to contest the succession, leaving the army without lead...

Q 02/05

Which Skandian jarl, who once helped Will escape, is elected the nation's new leader in The Battle for Skandia?

A) Svengal

B) Borsa

C) Gundar

D) Erak

Answer · why

D) Erak

Erak wins the vote and promptly promises his ship to his first mate Svengal, after one last voyage to take his Araluen friends home.

Q 03/05

In The Battle for Skandia, whom does Will train as a force of one hundred archers against the Temujai?

A) Skandian fishing-boat crews

B) Teutlandt mercenaries

C) Slaves promised freedom

D) Boys too young to row

Answer · why

C) Slaves promised freedom

Slaves promised freedom fill Will's ranks, an idea Ragnak accepts only reluctantly, since Skandian warriors fight hand to hand and have no answer to T...

Q 04/05

Will begins The Battle for Skandia newly recovered from addiction to which drug given to Skandian yard workers?

A) Warmweed

B) Greyleaf

C) Frostroot

D) Dreamwort

Answer · why

A) Warmweed

Warmweed takes the edge off the cold but leaves its users caring about nothing else; Evanlyn weaned Will off it over the winter with ever smaller dose...

Q 05/05

The Temujai of The Battle for Skandia have a name resembling Temüjin, the birth name of which conqueror?

A) Attila the Hun

B) Genghis Khan

C) Tamerlane

D) Kublai Khan

Answer · why

B) Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan was born Temüjin, and like his Mongols the Temujai of John Flanagan's novel are mounted archers who once swept west across a continent.