"Fairest" by Gail Carson Levine [2] Quiz

Answer: Crane chamber

She is cleaning the Lark chamber when he comes in and hears her singing. She is clearly startled and offers to leave, but he assures her it won't be necessary. "I only need to think a moment. To be exact, I can do that as badly with you here as with you gone."

Of the other answers, the Lark chamber is where Aza was brought when she was a month old, the Peacock chamber is where the duchess stays when visiting the Featherbed, and Gnome Caverns are Zham'm's home.

Answer: Imilli

She has ten cats-Asha, Ishe, Ishi, Osho, Ushu, Yshy, Alka, Elke, Ilki and Olko. Imilli is the name of Aza's family's cat.

Answer: Bast

Her given name is Ivy, and she is a commoner from the kingdom of Kyrria. King Oscaro, the ruler of neighboring Ayortha, chooses her as his bride.

Ayortha is Aza's kingdom of origin, and Amonta is the village where she lives with her adoptive family.

Answer: Fairy

In the queen's chamber, Aza finds a mirror that shows her an image of herself with a beautiful face. This is why she goes to the library, but she cannot find what she is looking for-and then she hears someone in another aisle. At first she contemplates running away, but her curiosity gets the best of her, and she asks if there are any books on magic mirrors.

In the only one the library keeper reads from, she learns about the evil fairy Lucinda and her "wedding present" the very mirror in Ivi's room!

Answer: Getting rid of the council

While she does do all of these things, it is really banning the council from meeting that angers them most. Next in importance is the plight of those suffering from the drought, then the queen's harsh manner of discipline-both to her human and nonhuman subjects. Also, at one point she outlaws singing.

Answer: Izzi

The bailiff and two guards take Aza down to the dungeons and hand her over to Izzi's care. "I want this one where you can see her every second," the bailiff tells Izzi before she tries to make a run for it and is subdued by the guards. (Learning she is to be put into the cage makes her into a rebel, and I can't say I blame her!)

Answer: Her beauty stuns him

Queen Ivi sees Aza as a major threat-as do others-and so Uju is sent to "take care of her." However he is uncertain when he sees how lovely she has become, and so decides to protect her instead. In the process, Aza ends up protecting Uju from the ogres-who are not really her relations as the queen and council believe.

Answer: Blue

The purpose of the letter is to beg her forgiveness for his disrespectful and hurtful actions. Before the guards took Aza away, Ijori believed the queen's lies about her. Later, though, he realized the maiden's character hadn't changed. "It is far more likely that she threatened you than that you connived for position and power."

Answer: Six weeks

The leader of the gnomes has to go judge some cases in the southern part of the kingdom. Aza doesn't want him to leave because he is so kind and easy to talk to. Even so, "I didn't need him. Everyone was kind and a few gnomes spoke Ayorthian."

Answer: Oochoo

While it is the prince who expelled the poison from her throat, it is the royal hound who gives him the determination and the idea. "She's been in skirmishes with ogres. She whimpers over the dead, but she barks over the wounded."