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"Airborn," Part II Trivia Quiz

Test your knowledge with the second part of my quiz on "Airborn" by Kenneth Oppel. This is a wonderful book, and there are no other quizzes on it yet!

A multiple-choice quiz by SilverNaiad. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
SilverNaiad

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
264,722

Updated
Jul 23 22

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
200

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. When Matt and Kate are escaping from the sudden typhoon, they find shelter in a cave. What is inside that cave? Hint

Hydrium

A dead man

Crystals

The tunnel to Szpirglas's village

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Question 2 of 10

2. Kate drugs Miss Simpkins and goes off alone to explore. Who does Captain Walken send, along with Matt, to go look for her?

Answer: (First name, last name, or full name)

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Question 3 of 10

3. After attacking a member of the "exploration party," the cloud cat is frightened into forgetting them by which of the following? Hint

A cloud over the sun

Kate

A spyglass

Stones thrown at it

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Question 4 of 10

4. Fleeing from the cloud cat, Matt and Kate stumble across a group of Szpirglas's pirates, who pretend to be from the Sky Guard. What false name does Szpirglas give? Hint

Captain Glassey

He uses his real name

Captain Anglesea

Admiral Theodore

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Question 5 of 10

5. Do Matt and Kate use only Kate's harem-style pants to escape from the hydrium pit?

Yes

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Question 6 of 10

6. With the Aurora under the command of Szpirglas and his pirates, how do Matt, Kate, and Bruce get aboard? Hint

Aft crow's nest

Control car

Cargo bay

Tail fin

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Question 7 of 10

7. What dish did Chef Vlad put the sleeping elixir into? Hint

Pork roast

Scalloped potatoes

Fruit salad

Fish soup

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who or what knocks Szpirglas off the wing of the Aurora, killing him? Hint

Matt

A safety line

The wind

None of these

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Question 9 of 10

9. Where did Matt get money to pay for his education at the Airship Academy? Hint

A share of Kate's cloud cat money

He didn't need money; they gave him a scholarship

Gold found on the island

Rewards for information about Szpirglas

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Question 10 of 10

10. Matt doesn't want Kate to study at the university in Paris. True or false?

True

False

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. When Matt and Kate are escaping from the sudden typhoon, they find shelter in a cave. What is inside that cave?

Answer: Hydrium

Matt starts to panic from being landlocked and inside a dark, low-ceilinged cave. Kate asks him why he's so afraid, and he ends up pouring out his heart to her-a very touching scene. But once the rain lets up, the two hear a hissing, and think something is inside the cave with them.

They quickly leave, but when the Aurora is about to be torn apart for balloon making, Matt suddenly remembers that hiss, and the smell of mangoes....

2. Kate drugs Miss Simpkins and goes off alone to explore. Who does Captain Walken send, along with Matt, to go look for her?

Answer: Lunardi

Matt wonders if the captain is punishing him by sending Bruce along, because he knows Matt isn't fond of him, but no other men can be spared.

3. After attacking a member of the "exploration party," the cloud cat is frightened into forgetting them by which of the following?

Answer: A spyglass

Matt remembers a line from Benjamin Molloy's logbook: "The sight of my spyglass makes them scatter in an instant." And after hearing how the pirates shoot the cloud cats for sport, he figures that the spyglass reminds them of rifles.

4. Fleeing from the cloud cat, Matt and Kate stumble across a group of Szpirglas's pirates, who pretend to be from the Sky Guard. What false name does Szpirglas give?

Answer: Captain Anglesea

Szpirglas is all charm and generousness. He feeds Matt and Kate, and even introduces them to his son Theodore-but of course his thoughts are all scheming and sly. It isn't until they try to escape and he knows they're from the Aurora that he really gets nasty.

5. Do Matt and Kate use only Kate's harem-style pants to escape from the hydrium pit?

Answer: Yes

They think it's all over at first; they can't breathe, and it won't be long before they pass out and then die. But a puff of hydrium gets into Matt's sleeve and raises up his arm, which gives him an idea. They knot the ends of Kate's pants and fill the rest up with hydrium. After that they just hang on and ride to the top of the pit.

6. With the Aurora under the command of Szpirglas and his pirates, how do Matt, Kate, and Bruce get aboard?

Answer: Tail fin

In the bottom of the tail fin is a hatch, six feet or so off the ground. The hatch opens when Matt tries it, and in they go.

7. What dish did Chef Vlad put the sleeping elixir into?

Answer: Fish soup

Matt gets the sleeping elixir from the infirmary, goes down to the kitchen by way of the dumbwaiter, and gives Vlad the potion. The chef promptly dumps the entire bottle of it into his fish soup.

8. Who or what knocks Szpirglas off the wing of the Aurora, killing him?

Answer: None of these

It was, in fact, a cloud cat. Matt is hanging onto the Aurora's wing with a murderous Szpirglas coming toward him. But then a flock of cloud cats appears-the cripple joining them as if it had never done anything but fly-and one of them dips low and grazes Szpirglas on the shoulder. He loses the safety line and falls into the sea.

9. Where did Matt get money to pay for his education at the Airship Academy?

Answer: Rewards for information about Szpirglas

Six months after the adventure on the island, Matt (now a student at the Academy) goes to see Kate's speech on the scientific qualities of the cloud cat.

10. Matt doesn't want Kate to study at the university in Paris. True or false?

Answer: False

Very false! Kate has her choice of any university, and the ones she considers attending are in Lionsgate City, London, Constantinople, and Paris. Matt says he thinks Paris would be a grand place to study. "Do you?" Kate asks.

"I do. The university's just on the other side of the river from the Air Academy. I've walked past it many times."

And Kate smiles and replies, "Well, I'll certainly consider it very carefully, then."

Source: Author SilverNaiad

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