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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSIn Ketterdam, a corrupt harbor city ruled by trade guilds and criminal gangs, seventeen year old thief and gang lieutenant Kaz Brekker is offered a fortune he cannot refuse, thirty million kruge to break a scientist out of the most heavily guarded fortress in the world. That scientist knows the formula for a drug that turns Grisha, people born with the power to manipulate matter, into something closer to weapons than human beings, and half the world wants him first. To pull off the impossible heist, Kaz pulls together a crew of outcasts from the Barrel's underworld. Inej is his fearless spy known as the Wraith. Jesper is a sharpshooter who can't resist a bet. Nina is a Grisha with a complicated debt to repay. Matthias is a former witchhunter with every reason to hate all of them. None of them expect to survive the trip north to the Ice Court, let alone make it out again with their prize, but the money, and what it could buy each of them, is worth the risk.
Free Battle of the Books questions for Six of Crows
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about Six of Crows. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book does a pale boy in a blue coat walk straight through a library wall?
✓ Answer
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Mikka is a Tidemaker dosed with jurda parem, and Jan Van Eck calls him in as a demonstration when Kaz puts a blade to his throat. If a person can walk through walls, then no vault or fortress anywhere is safe, which is the whole reason the job exists.
- First half
In what book does a prisoner give away fortress plans for free if he may kill his enemy?
✓ Answer
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Matthias refuses four million kruge but offers the layout of the Ice Court for nothing if he may kill Nina Zenik. Kaz is not remotely surprised, because he had already worked out exactly what Matthias wanted and what he actually needed.
- First half
In what book does a girl trip over a murdered crewmate moments before their ship explodes?
✓ Answer
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Inej arrives late to Fifth Harbor and finds Dirix dead on the dock just as the schooner blows apart and knocks her off her feet. The ambush was paid for by Pekka Rollins, who wanted the crew finished before they ever left Ketterdam.
- Second half
In what book do enemies trade the saying, "The water hears and understands"?
✓ Answer
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Matthias offers the first half of the Fjerdan proverb while he and Nina hack out a grave, and she finishes it for him. The rest of it says that the ice does not forgive, which is exactly what he means about her betrayal.
- Second half
In what book does a sharpshooter dig a chloro pellet out from under the skin of his ankle?
✓ Answer
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Nina stitched the pellet into Jesper's leg before the job, and popping the stitches open hurts badly. Dropped into the cell's waste bucket, the powder reacts with ammonia and knocks out every other prisoner in the block.
- Near the end
In what book do thieves cut bulletproof glass with a drill bit ground from a stolen diamond?
✓ Answer
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Inej lifts Heleen Van Houden's diamond choker, Jesper shapes the stones into a bit, and Wylan builds a drill out of a winch handle. Fabrikator glass can only be beaten by diamond, so the stolen necklace becomes the crew's way out.
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