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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSTwelve-year-old Drest has grown up on a remote Scottish headland in 1210, training alongside her father Grimbol and her five older brothers, who together make up the feared war-band known as the Mad Wolf's. When enemy knights arrive by boat in the night and capture the entire war-band, Drest is the only one left behind. With five days before her family is hanged at Faintree Castle, she pulls a wounded young knight named Emerick from a ravine, hoping to trade him for her brothers' freedom, and sets off through an unfamiliar world of bandits, village mobs, and dangerous roads to reach the castle in time.
Free Battle of the Books questions for The Mad Wolf's Daughter
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 The Mad Wolf's Daughter. 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 girl find her eldest brother's named sword glittering among rocks in the sea?
✓ Answer
The Mad Wolf's Daughter by Diane Magras
After the battle, Drest wades into the cold water among the dragons' teeth and finds Borawyn, Wulfric's sword. It's the only named sword in the war-band and the only one left unbroken. It becomes Drest's weapon for the entire journey.
- First half
In what book does an old healer say that mouse skulls do wonders for a toothache?
✓ Answer
The Mad Wolf's Daughter by Diane Magras
Wimarca notices Drest looking at the tiny skulls strung around her neck and explains what they are. It's a detail that makes Wimarca memorable as both a healer and a slightly eccentric character in The Mad Wolf's Daughter.
- First half
In what book was a six-year-old boy abandoned in winter woods after his mother was killed?
✓ Answer
The Mad Wolf's Daughter by Diane Magras
After the villagers hanged Tig's mother, they took Tig into the woods and left him there in winter. He would have died if Wimarca had not found him the next day and brought him to Phearsham Ridge, where the miller Arnulf took him in as a foster son.
- Second half
In what book does a bandit reveal that a warlord poisoned his village's well, killing his sister and her baby?
✓ Answer
The Mad Wolf's Daughter by Diane Magras
Jupp tells Drest the painful truth about Birrensgate. Her father Grimbol came into Jupp's house, drew poisoned water from the well, and made it into soup. The poison killed the weakest people in town, including Jupp's sister and her child.
- Second half
In what book do three travelers escape a walled town by swimming through a drain hole under its stone wall?
✓ Answer
The Mad Wolf's Daughter by Diane Magras
With the town gates shut and guards searching for them, Drest hears trickling water and finds a ragged drain hole at the bottom of the wall. She pulls Tig through, then swims back against the current to drag Emerick out too.
- Near the end
In what book do twin brothers disguise themselves with false beards made from a black boar rug?
✓ Answer
The Mad Wolf's Daughter by Diane Magras
Gobin and Nutkin escape the castle by blending in with the fleeing crowd. They fashion fake beards from a black boar rug they found in someone's chambers and ride in the back of a wagon filled with purse-thieves.
