Q 01/05

What does Gen brag about stealing in The Thief, landing him in a royal prison in Sounis?

A) The king's crown

B) The king's sword

C) The king's seal

D) The king's purse

Answer · why

C) The king's seal

The king's seal backed up a wineshop boast that he could steal anything, and it cost him months in chains.

Q 02/05

How is Gen related to the queen of Eddis, as the final chapters of The Thief reveal?

A) Her cousin

B) Her brother

C) Her nephew

D) Her son

Answer · why

A) Her cousin

Her cousin, and so a member of the royal family: the ragged prisoner the party looked down on had been her agent from the start.

Q 03/05

Besides a claim to a throne, what is Hamiathes's Gift rumoured to grant its bearer in The Thief?

A) Invisibility

B) Immortality

C) Second sight

D) Endless wealth

Answer · why

B) Immortality

Immortality is the legend, and the story teases it: Gen is trapped with no way out of the maze, yet wakes outside holding the stone.

Q 04/05

Where is the maze holding Hamiathes's Gift hidden in The Thief, leaving Gen only night-time hours to search?

A) Inside a volcano

B) Under a palace

C) In a desert cave

D) Beneath a river

Answer · why

D) Beneath a river

Beneath a river, below a waterfall that a dam shuts off at midnight. Megan Whalen Turner modelled the flooded temple on an ancient cistern she had vis...

Q 05/05

Megan Whalen Turner modelled the world of The Thief on which country after holidaying there with her husband?

A) Greece

B) Turkey

C) Egypt

D) Morocco

Answer · why

A) Greece

Greece gave her the landscape she wanted on her first visit, and she hauled a stack of heavy history books around the country to read by the sea.