Son of a Witch - G. Maguire Trivia Quiz

Answer: Candle

Candle is a Quadling who is believed mute by the other maunts. She is not, however, just shy.

Fun Note: The instrument she plays is called a domingon.

Answer: True

Liir likes Dorothy, but she only likes him as a friend.

Fun Note: Dorothy is portrayed in this book much differently than she is in the movie. While some traits are familiar, she has a much more sassy attitude.

Answer: Southstairs

Southstairs is a high-security prison in the Emerald City. No one that goes in ever comes out.

Fun Note: Southstairs is where Shell Thropp works. Liir meets Shell while he is looking for Nor.

Answer: The Scrow and the Yunamata

The Scrow and the Yunamata are fighting because each thinks the other is responsible for the face scrapings. They stop fighting when it is found out that dragons are responsible.

Fun Note: The Scrow's leader is the Princess Nastoya, an Elephant. The Yunamata do not wear clothes, they simply paint their bodies with tribal markings.

Answer: A quivering scorpion

You'll understand his thinking when you read the book excerpt.

Fun Note: Book Excerpt

"...in her final months, [she] stooped, crabbed, [and] scrabbled from desk to podium to window ledge, she was more like a quivering scorpion than a woman. At rest her fingers tended to curl up like a claw, or like the petals of a flower gone a bit blowsy: her hand was always out, always open, ready to take what found its way there and seize it."

Answer: Second Scrub

When he joined the army he got a number, a cot, a cabin, a chit for meals, a key, a position title (Second Scrub) and a job. That job was peeling potatoes.

Fun Note: Liir finally deserts the army. His rank then is Minor Menacier. That's fairly well up.

Answer: Ovvels

The Ovvels, in Quadling Country, are the southernmost town in Oz.

Fun Note: Book Excerpt

"Candle was raised in the Ovvels. Well, hardly a town, as she described it: a network of cabanas built in the rubbery limbs of suppletrees above the salty damp of flooded groves. As a child she hunted charfish with her spear. Like most of Quadling Country, her settlement had become economically blighted in the decades of the Wizard's ascendancy... Beyond that, Candle had little else to say."

Answer: Apple Press Farm

The farm has presses for pressing apples and printing broadsides.

Answer: Kumbricia's

Kumbricia is a witch from old stories.

Fun Note: Book Excerpt (this is a poem from the book)

"Kumbricia stirs the pot, and licks the ladle,
Sets the table, pours a glass of tears.
Waits beside the ominous vacant candle.
Waiting still. She can wait for years."

Answer: Cliff Eagle

General Kynot is the "leader" of the Conference of Birds.

Fun Note: There is a Pfenix and a Dodo in this book. The Pfenix dies in the beginning of the book and the Dodo is at the Conference - mostly for comic relief.

Answer: True

The line of Elphaba lives on... Right?

Answer: Shell Thropp

Oh boy... Shell as Emperor? I'm with Liir...there goes the country.

Fun Note: Shell calls himself Emperor Apostle.

Answer: Sister Thudhead

He calls her that because, well, read the excerpt.

Fun Note: Book Excerpt

"The Commander called back, 'If you're not harboring felons, why are all your doors blocked?'
'Spring cleaning.'
'It's early winter, Sister Thudhead.'"

Answer: Iskinaary

I love how Gregory Maguire makes these unique names.

Answer: The baby has green skin

ELPHABA'S LINE LIVES ON!

Fun Note: Book Excerpt

"He took her to the doorway and held her up in the warm rain.
She cleaned up green."

Hope you enjoy my quiz!