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What Day is Abeni's Birthday Celebrated on?
a) New Year's Eve
b) The Harvest Festival
c) The first day it rains
d) March 3rd
b) The Harvest Festival
What type of spirit is Nyomi?
a) Fish
b) Panther
c) Squirrel
d) Porcupined) Porcupine
Who takes the adults in Abeni's village?
a) The Storm Women
b) Auntie Asha
c) The Goat Man
d) Giant Bats
a) The Storm Women
What does Auntie Asha give Abeni that will be "more useful than any sword?"
a) A magic potion
b) A knife
c) A shield
d) A wooden staff
d) A wooden staff
What type of creature is Moshi?
a) A bush baby
b) A giant salamander
c) A goat
d) A small bearded dragon
b) A giant salamander
How old is Abeni when her village is attacked?
a) 11
b) 12
c) 14
d) 16
b) 12
What type of spirit is Zaneeya
a) Fish
b) Panther
c) Squirrel
d) Porcupine
b) Panther
Who takes the children in Abeni's village?
a) Zimwi Giants?
b) Ekwolo
c) The Goat Man
d) The Village Chief
c) The Goat Man
What is Abeni's first task of the First Rites?
a) Bring back to jugs of water
b) Win a fight against obi
c) Collect morning mushrooms
d) Bring back berries from the red tree
d) Bring back berries from the red tree
Why did Damju not get taken by the goat man?
a) She is deaf
b) She hid in her house
c) She was not wanted
d) She is blind
d) She is blind
Who is Abeni's best friend in her village?
a) Danwe
b) Ekwolo
c) Sowoke
d) Fomi
d) Fomi
What was Abeni's name when she was turned into a monster?
a) Tornado
b) Viper
c) Viking
d) Killer
b) Viper
Why did Asha demand a child from Abeni's village as payment for portecting it?
a) To train a new, powerful spirit
b) To have a servant
c) To have someone to take care of her when she reverted to being a child
d) To have some company in the big, lonely forest
c) To have someone to take care of her when she reverted to being a child
Why did Auntie Asha send Abeni to collect morning mushrooms?
a) To test Abeni's skills
b) Auntie Asha was busy and needed help
c) To keep her away from the house when the Shadow came
d) obi was sick and needed the mushrooms
c) To keep her away from the house when the Shadow came
Who are the Goat man's monsters?
a) Bat spirits
b) Adults in the village
c) The missing children
d) Robots
c) The missing children
Who is Abeni's training partner as she learns to fight?
a) Obi
b) Fomi
c) Her brother
d) Auntie Asha
a) Obi
Who is Asha's sister?
a) A valley
b) A witch
c) A monster
d) A mountain
a) A valley
Where does Abeni meet Tutuo and Moshi?
a) In the Vale of Lost Things
b) In her old village
c) On the ghost ships
d) In the Mountain of Found Objects
a) In the Vale of Lost Things
What happened to Auntie Asha when she died?
a) She disappeared
b) She became a child again
c) She exploded
d) She came back to life as an even older woman
b) She became a child again
After Asha is captured by the Goat Man, how does Abeni talk to Asha?
a) By screaming
b) A phone call
c) In a dream
d) A bird delivers a message
c) In a dream
How did Abeni come to be able to understand all languages?
a) She was born with that power
b) She swallowed a prattle stone
c) She studied for a long time
d) Auntie Asha gave her the ability
b) She swallowed a prattle stone
Who is the Witch Priest?
a) A tree
b) A vally
c) Asha's father
d) Asha's brother
d) Asha's brother
Where does Abeni go at the end of the book?
a) Back to her village
b) She leaves to find the missing adults from her village
c) To Asha's house
d) To the Vale of Lost Things
b) She leaves to find the missing adults from her village
What is Asha's nickname for Nyomi?
a) Prickly
b) Pointy
c) Cutie
d) Misty
a) Prickly
What is the goat man's real name?
a) Brima
b) Tutuo
c) Ekwolo
d) Abeni
a) Brima