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Quiz about Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Quiz about Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

"Gathering Blue," by Lois Lowry Quiz


How closely did you pay attention to "Gathering Blue"? Test your knowledge on this excellent companion book to Lois Lowry's popular novel "The Giver."

A multiple-choice quiz by Arget_Aiedail. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
251,109
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
9 / 15
Plays
518
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 15
1. In the beginning of the book, Kira is sitting with her mother's body in the Field of Leaving. Her mother's brother is also there, waiting for his wife's spirit to leave her body. What was his wife's name? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. What kind of vegetable is the woman stealing from Kira's garden?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 3 of 15
3. Kira forgot to genuflect to the Worship-object at her trial.


Question 4 of 15
4. It is said that Vandara fed her own tyke "the ________." What word fills in the blank? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. What is wrong with Matt's dog, Branch? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. Kira has a necklace that was a gift to her mother from her father. Is this keepsake a smooth and shiny black rock on a leather thong?


Question 7 of 15
7. Thomas the Carver offers to write down the names of plants and the dyes they make to help Kira remember them. When written down, what plant's name makes Kira think of tall stems? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. What does Thomas make as a gift for Kira? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. Does the old dyer, Annabella, speak with an accent from the Fen?


Question 10 of 15
10. When trying to explain the crying sounds coming from the floor below, what animals does Kira suggest might be making the noise? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. Jamison wears a carved pendant with an outline of a tree on it.


Question 12 of 15
12. What do Thomas and Kira tell the little singer, Jo, to bang on the ceiling with if she ever needs them? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. Matt's brother wants something in return for telling Kira and Thomas where Matt went. What does Kira give him? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. Which of the following is what Christopher's shirt is compared to? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. Who tried to kill Kira's father?

Answer: (One Word-name)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. In the beginning of the book, Kira is sitting with her mother's body in the Field of Leaving. Her mother's brother is also there, waiting for his wife's spirit to leave her body. What was his wife's name?

Answer: Solora

Solora died around the same time Kira's mother did, when giving birth to their third child. Her other children, Dan and Mar, will be given away to people who don't have any of their own.
2. What kind of vegetable is the woman stealing from Kira's garden?

Answer: Carrots

Led by Vandara, the women of the village decide that they hate Kira and that she should be left in the Field for the beasts, so they don't mind stealing from her. The women also take Kira's land to build a pen for their tykes.
3. Kira forgot to genuflect to the Worship-object at her trial.

Answer: False

Kira neglects to bow to the Council of Guardians, but she does bow in front of the Worship-object. Vandara comes into the Council of Edifice barefoot and with a dirty face, and Kira hopes that she will make a better impression since she took the time to wash.

But then Vandara bows to both the Council of Guardians AND the Worship-object and Kira is worried that she did something wrong by not bowing.
4. It is said that Vandara fed her own tyke "the ________." What word fills in the blank?

Answer: Oleander

"She's hard, that Vandara. She killed her own tyke, they say. Made him eat the oleander, they say," Matt tells Kira. Later Kira's father, Christopher, tells Kira of the accident that gave Vandara her scars, when her child slipped on wet rocks and grabbed her skirt.
5. What is wrong with Matt's dog, Branch?

Answer: His tail is crooked

Matt found Branch lying by the side of the road. The little dog had been hit by a car and injured, but nobody cared. Matt nursed him back to health and used a branch to splint up his tail (hence the name Branch--or "Branchie" as Matt likes to call him). Only the tail still healed crooked.
6. Kira has a necklace that was a gift to her mother from her father. Is this keepsake a smooth and shiny black rock on a leather thong?

Answer: No

It is a sparkly purple rock, probably a geode. Matt saved it before Kira's house was burned because, "It be all purply. And shiny-like."
7. Thomas the Carver offers to write down the names of plants and the dyes they make to help Kira remember them. When written down, what plant's name makes Kira think of tall stems?

Answer: Hollyhock

Kira--who can't read because girls aren't allowed to learn--notices that the word "hollyhock" is "long, with many lines like tall stems," and that "goldenrod" and "greenwood" begin and end with the same shapes. She likes how the words "tell the story of a name."
8. What does Thomas make as a gift for Kira?

Answer: A box carved with plants used for dyeing

Among the plants carved on the box are yarrow and coreopsis. Kira loves it and decides right away that she'll keep her special scrap of cloth in it. That is when Thomas tells her that he has a small piece of wood that also has special meaning to him.
9. Does the old dyer, Annabella, speak with an accent from the Fen?

Answer: Yes

People from the Fen speak slightly differently than people in the rest of the village. Kira doesn't notice that Annabella speaks that way until she tells Thomas about her saying, "There be no beasts," and Kira and Thomas wonder if perhaps Annabella grew up in the Fen.
10. When trying to explain the crying sounds coming from the floor below, what animals does Kira suggest might be making the noise?

Answer: A cat or a goat

Thomas hears the crying several times and is troubled by it. Eventually he and Kira decide to go exploring and see what it is, because, as Matt points out, "Noise don't never be NOTHING."
11. Jamison wears a carved pendant with an outline of a tree on it.

Answer: True

Kira identifies Jamison to Matt by telling him that, "He always wears one of Thomas's carvings. Quite a nice one, with an outline of a tree."
12. What do Thomas and Kira tell the little singer, Jo, to bang on the ceiling with if she ever needs them?

Answer: The handle of a hairbrush

Thomas's room is right above Jo's, so he tells her to climb the chest of drawers and thump the ceiling with the hairbrush handle--but only when she really needs them--and he and Kira will come as soon as they can.
13. Matt's brother wants something in return for telling Kira and Thomas where Matt went. What does Kira give him?

Answer: The leather cord that ties back her hair

Kira trades the leather cord only to be given the confusing information that Matt has gone "yonder" to get her some blue.
14. Which of the following is what Christopher's shirt is compared to?

Answer: The sky on a sunny summer-start morning

Matt brings Kira "blue" by bringing her a woad plant and a man wearing a blue shirt. Kira doesn't know why she brought the man until he reveals that his name is Christopher, and that he is her father.
15. Who tried to kill Kira's father?

Answer: Jamison

Kira always thought that beasts took her father, and that he was dead, so it is as a huge shock to her that he is alive and that a man as nice as Jamison seems to be could have tried to kill him, but it just shows what people will do when they are jealous.
Source: Author Arget_Aiedail

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