Q 01/05

Into which animal does Aslan turn the defeated Prince Rabadash at the end of The Horse and His Boy?

A) A donkey

B) A camel

C) A tortoise

D) A jackal

Answer · why

A) A donkey

A donkey is what Rabadash becomes after he refuses every offer of mercy. He is warned that if he ever strays far from the Calormene capital again, the...

Q 02/05

In The Horse and His Boy, Aslan comforts Shasta among the tombs at night in the shape of which animal?

A) A lamb

B) An owl

C) A cat

D) A dog

Answer · why

C) A cat

A cat keeps Shasta company and guards him while he sleeps, and only much later does he learn that it was the great lion all along.

Q 03/05

In six of the seven Narnia books, but never in The Horse and His Boy, the child heroes arrive from where?

A) The Western Wild

B) The real world

C) Archenland

D) Calormen

Answer · why

B) The real world

The real world supplies the child heroes of every other book, from the Pevensies to Digory and Polly. Shasta and Aravis are natives of Narnia's own wo...

Q 04/05

Which of Narnia's four sibling monarchs is away fighting giants in the north throughout The Horse and His Boy?

A) Lucy

B) Edmund

C) Susan

D) Peter

Answer · why

D) Peter

Peter never appears in the book at all, and his absence on the northern frontier is the opening Rabadash counts on for his raid.

Q 05/05

Which old friend of Queen Lucy devises the Narnians' escape from Tashbaan in The Horse and His Boy?

A) Mr. Beaver

B) Giant Rumblebuffin

C) Mr. Tumnus

D) Reepicheep

Answer · why

C) Mr. Tumnus

Mr. Tumnus, the first creature Lucy ever met in Narnia, has become a royal adviser. His quick thinking saves Queen Susan from a forced match with Raba...

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