Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Multiple Choice Quiz | Harry Potter

Answer: December 31

When Mrs. Cole recounts to Dumbledore the night when Merope died, she mentions it as New Year's Eve. Merope had her baby at the orphanage that night, asked for him to be named Tom Marvolo Riddle, and died an hour later.

Answer: Hagrid's hut

Ginny's scent is actually described in the book as something "flowery" that Harry smelled at the burrow. When Ginny approaches Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the corridor after potions, the book states that Harry catches a whiff of the same flowery smell.

Answer: Middle finger

When Harry sees Marvolo Gaunt show Bob Ogden the ring while in the Pensieve, he at first thinks that Gaunt is making a rude hand sign at Ogden. Actually, he is showing the Ministry official his old stone ring, which is now in Dumbledore's possession.

Answer: Fox

Bellatrix is chasing Narcissa in this chapter, attempting to keep her sister from talking to Snape. When a fox makes a sudden movement, Bellatrix kills it immediately, thinking that an Auror has found them.

Answer: He accidentally gives himself a moustache.

The day's classwork is for the students to be changing the color of their eyebrows. Hermione, still furious at Ron for going out with Lavender and for Harry's pretend use of Felix Felicis, laughs rudely when Ron unintentionally gives himself a moustache.

He then responds by doing an imitation of Hermione eagerly jumping up to answer a teacher's question, which causes Hermione to start crying and leave her materials behind when the bell rings.

Answer: They only work when one person is already in love with the other.

During Chapter 6, the Weasleys and Harry visit the shop. Ginny asks about the potions, and Fred and George describe them to her, after which they interrogate her about her many recent boyfriends.

Answer: Oak-matured mead

After Ron accidentally eats chocolate that has been filled with love potion, Harry takes him to Slughorn for an antidote. Afterwards, Slughorn opens a bottle of mead, not knowing it to be poisoned, and gives some to Harry and Ron as a birthday celebration. Ron is the first and only one of the three to drink some, and immediately succumbs to the toxin.

Answer: Bring down the Ministry of Magic from within

Luna tells Harry this at Slughorn's party after Harry says that he wants to become an Auror when he leaves school. She calls this Auror plot "the Rotfang conspiracy" and engages in a conversation about it with Professor Trelawney.

Answer: Acceptable

During the Astronomy O.W.L. in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", Professor Umbridge tries to get rid of Hagrid without drawing attention to herself. The ensuing fight, witnessed by Harry's entire class, results in Hagrid's flight from Hogwarts and Professor McGonagall's removal to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.

Many of the fifth-year students were very distracted by these events during their O.W.L.

Answer: Canary Islands

Slughorn has been moving around so the Death Eaters cannot come to call on him and try to recruit him to Voldemort's ranks. Harry points out that he doesn't have to join the Order of the Phoenix to teach at Hogwarts and that he'd be much safer with Dumbledore. With this in mind, Slughorn decides to come out of retirement.

Answer: Harry's battle with Malfoy in the bathroom

After Harry attacks Malfoy by accident, Snape gives Harry detention every Saturday until the end of term, meaning that Harry cannot participate in the final match of the Quidditch season. Malfoy had tried to use the Cruciatus Curse against Harry, and Ginny is glad that Harry had a good defense.

When Hermione points out what has happened to their chances of winning the match, Ginny snaps at her to stop pretending she understands Quidditch. At this point in the book, Harry and Ginny are not yet dating and Ron and Hermione have already made up with each other.

Answer: 10 galleons

Caractacus Burke, co-founder of the shop Borgin and Burke's, was not known to be a generous man. When he determined the authenticity of the locket, he realized Merope had no idea how much the locket was worth. He cruelly took advantage of this fact and gave her ten galleons for it.

Answer: Pretend they can't hear him

Ron and Hermione don't think that Voldemort would let a sixteen-year-old wizard who is not even out of school to be a Death Eater. Harry brings it up so many times that they start ignoring him, because they know that Harry is determined to prove his theory.

Answer: Sixth year

Michael Corner is one of four Ravenclaws to make it into Harry's N.E.W.T. Potions class. He had gone out with Ginny for a time the previous year, meaning that he joined the D.A. along with her. They broke up after Michael got angry over Ravenclaw's loss to Gryffindor in Quidditch, after which Ginny started going out with Dean Thomas instead.

Answer: Debilitation

Twycross instructs the students to concentrate on their destination, fill their minds with determination to occupy that space, and then move into nothingness with deliberation. Even with these guidelines, Apparition proves very difficult.

Answer: Spades

Professor Trelawney does not see Harry as she walks away with the deck of cards. As she pulls each card individually, she tells herself what it means. After a few of these, she says, "Well, that can't be right," and re-shuffles the deck.

Answer: A many-headed monster

The analogy that Snape makes is that the Dark Arts are like a many-headed monster. If one head is severed from the body, the monster grows a newer, more powerful one, much like the Dark Arts.

Answer: Three

Of the twelve students in Harry's Potions class, only three - Harry, Ernie Macmillan, and Draco Malfoy - attend. Slughorn asks them to brew up something amusing, and Harry decides to make an elixir to induce euphoria.

Answer: Kreacher had been insulting Harry

Harry, still determined to find out what Malfoy is up to, summons Kreacher to the hospital wing to tail Malfoy. Because Kreacher and Dobby are fighting at the time, Dobby also comes and agrees to help.

Answer: Weak

Following the events at the Ministry of Magic in the previous book, Tonks suffers a major character change. No longer the happy, bubbly person she once was, she is very depressed and distant.