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Impossible Creatures
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the creature look like who tried to eat Christopher? | A black doglike creature, teeth as long as his forearm and claws that could tear apart an oak tree (page 1) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was Christopher's last name? | Forrester (page 1) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, when was the only time Mal could fly? | When the wind blew (page 2) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was Mal's last name? | Arvorian (page 2) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Mal's coat fit? | It was too big for her, and she wore it with the sleeves rolled up four times (page 2) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the name of Mal's great-aunt? | Leonor (page 3) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did Christopher live? | In a flat in North London (page 4) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what happened to Christopher that got the attention of other people at the ferry terminal? | Seven squirrels clustered around him (page 4) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was a joke among Christopher's friends wherever he went? | Animals sought him out (page 5) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, Christopher knew the attention and love of animals involved a certain amount of what? | Blood (page 5) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who hated that Christopher attracted animals? | His father (page 5) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who else had always attracted animals? | Christopher's mother (page 6) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how long ago did Christopher's mother die? | Nine years ago (page 6) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Christopher's voice change around animals? | It became softer and lighter (page 6) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Christopher wear as a necklace? | A shoelace with coins the crows brought him (page 6) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Christopher's necklace symbolize? | His allegiance to wild and living things (page 7) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the murderer have in his pocket? | A knife (page 8) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what had the murderer spent years perfecting? | The careful art of forgettability (page 8) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who had the murderer been told to hunt down? | A flying girl (page 8) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did Mal live? | The Archipelago (page 8) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Mal get a flying coat? | A traveling seer gave it to her soon after she was born (page 8) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what happened to Mal's mother? | She died in childbirth with Mal (page 9) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what had happened to Mal as she learned how to fly with the coat? | She broke a lot of bones (page 9) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, at what age did Mal learn to glide to a gentle stop in her flying coat? | Nine (page 9) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did Leonor allow Mal to fly? | The garden or across the fields (page 10) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who could Mal speak to in the forest? | Green squirrel-like ratatoskas (page 10) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who did Mal find washed up on shore and hatch in her own bed? | Gelifen (page 10) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal and Gelifen like to look for while running through the trees? | Unicorns (page 10) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the sky to Mal? | Freedom (page 11) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what tasted different based on shades of gray and white in the sky? | Clouds (page 11) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did Gelifen ride when he flew with Mal? | She tucked him into her jumper (page 11) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did Christopher's grandfather live? | Scotland (page 12) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was Christopher's grandfather's name? | Frank Aureate (page 12) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was on top of Frank's car when he picked Christopher up from the ferry terminal? | Seagulls (page 12) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did Christopher go to Scotland to stay with his grandfather? | His father had been summoned away for work, and there was nowhere to go (page 13) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how long had it been since Christopher had seen his grandfather? | Nine years (page 13) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how far away was Frank's closest neighbor? | Twenty-one miles away (page 14) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what town in the Archipelago did Mal live? | Icthus (page 15) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what happened to the enchanted islands? | They were separated and hidden away from the rest of the world (page 15) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where was Atidina located in the Archipelago? | The far southeast edge (page 15) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the boat called where nicely brought-up children didn't shop? | The Sailsman (page 16) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what had Mal been saving six months to buy? | A small pocket compass called a casapasaran (page 17-18) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the casapasaran do? | Wherever you were, the needle pointed you home (page 18) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the Sailsman's actual name? | Lionel Holbyne (page 18) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how much did Mal pay for the casapasaran? | Two gold and nine silver coins (page 19) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the name of the knife that was one of a kind, centaur-made for the immortal? | The Glamry Blade (page 19) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was Frank's house overrun by? | Ivy (page 21) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what distinguishing feature did the man in the life-size oil painting in Frank's sitting room have? | A mustache with enough hair to stuff a small cushion (page 22) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the one condition that Christopher's dad insisted on with him staying with his grandfather? | He wasn't allowed to go near the top of the hill (page 23) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Frank make for Christopher? | He knitted Christopher a dark red jersey (page 24) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what had Mal been coming across for months in the forest? | Dead animals (page 25) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what color was Atidina's forest soil supposed to be forever? | Rich brown (page 26) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what color was Atidina's forest soil turning? | Gray-black silt (page 26) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was Mal's experiment in the forest? | Proving the swathes of gray soil really were growing larger (page 26) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what had been slowly disappearing for the last five years? | Griffins (page 26) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the report from the City of Scholars say about griffins? | No griffins had been seen for twenty-four months (page 27) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what happened if something wasn't seen for twenty-four months in the Archipelago? | They would be marked presumed extinct in the Book of Living Things (page 27) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the name of Frank's black Labrador? | Goose (page 28) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what happened when Christopher tried to go up the hill for the first time? | The ground began to shake under his feet (page 29) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what had Mal been told about once a day for a decade? | Not to climb the wall at the end of the garden (page 30) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what poison shrew-like creatures with a deadly bite lived in the river on the other side of Mal's garden wall? | Lavellans (page 30) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how old was Leonor? | Seventy-six (page 30) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Leonor show her care? | In her cooking as the finest baker in Icthus (page 32) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the casapasaran do when the murderer came to the door? | The arrow spun fast until it was vibrating in her hand (page 32) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Leonor throw at the murderer as he chased Mal out of the house? | A firewood axe (page 34) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the sign of the man's power who told the murderer to find Mal? | The creatures dying and the earth drying (page 35) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Mal get away from the Murderer on top of the wall? | She jumped eight feet into the water (page 36) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what appeared after Christopher neared the top of the slope? | A huge green horse covered in shining scales and then a stampede of shrew-like creatures and large, green-horned squirrels followed by a unicorn (page 37-39) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was at the top of the forbidden hill? | A small lake (page 39) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what made Christopher dive into the small lake at the top of the forbidden hill? | A small creature with wings and a tail that was drowning (page 40) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the creature Christopher saved from the lake do once it was brought to shore? | Vomited onto Christopher's sleeve (page 40) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Christopher rescue from drowning in the lake? | A griffin (page 41) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Frank give Christopher to feed the griffin? | Sardines (page 44) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was hidden behind the hideous oil painting of the man in uniform on Frank's wall? | A metal safe (page 45) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Frank take out of the safe to show Christopher? | A map of Archipelago (page 45) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Frank describe Archipelago to Christopher? | A secret place hidden where all the creatures of myth still live and thrive. The last surviving magic place (page 46) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how many islands made up Archipelago? | Thirty-four (page 46) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did magic come from? | It grew with the Earth's first tree (page 46) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what words were used to describe the magic? | Glimourie a.k.a. glamarie, glawmery, glamry, glim, glimt (page 46) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did the Earth's first tree grow? | On a cluster of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean (page 46) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what happened to the cluster of islands where the first tree grew? | They disappeared a few thousand years ago (page 47) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why had no one discovered the Archipelago? | Nothing can get close because the glimourie pushes them away (page 48) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the largest island in the Archipelago? | Lithia (page 48) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, on what island did the first tree grow? | Arkhe (page 48) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Frank know all about Archipelago? | He was the guardian of the way through (page 49) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was Christopher's mother's name? | Charlotte (page 49) |
| n the book Impossible Creatures, under what circumstances could someone get to the Archipelago? | The way opened once a year, for a single week, at the fourth full moon (page 49) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Frank call the lake at the top of the hill? | The lochan (lock-en) (page 49) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what grew at the bottom of the lochan? | An ancient tree, three thousand years old (page 49) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did the ancient tree at the bottom of the lochan grow? | It grew from a seed of the apple of the Glimourie Tree (page 49) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did animals flock to Christopher? | They feel he is a place of safety. A small part of the glimourie is in his blood (page 50) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why had no one told Christopher about his family of guardians? | His father didn't want him to know (page 50) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the book called that Frank gave to Christopher about the Archipelago? | The Guardian's Bestiary (page 50) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the Guardian's Bestiary? | An account of some of the wild creatures of the Archipelago started by Frank's great-greatgrandfather (page 50) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Frank say was fading and killing the animals in Archipelago? | The glimourie (page 51) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did all magical creatures depend on to live? | The glimourie (page 51) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the flying horse, bedecked with scales called? | Longma (page 51) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did unicorns crave? | Mint (page 53) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was a kludde? | A black creature built like a fighting dog with two sparks of blue flame instead of ears (page 55- 56) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how was the kludde defeated? | By putting out the blue flames with wet earth (page 56) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what were the most powerful and exhausting words in the human language? | "I need your help." (page 59) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal ask Christopher to do when she first met him at the lochan? | To come with her to the Archipelago (page 60) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what would happen to Gelifen, the griffin, if Mal didn't return to the Archipelago? | He would die without the glimourie (page 62) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the waybetween look like? | A flash of green, a small scrap of phosphorescent light (page 63) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Christopher use to attack the murderer? | A rake and a chair (page 66-67) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal do when she saw her Aunt dead? | She covered her with her favorite blanket (page 68) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what unicorn sense was very strong? | Their sense of smell (page 70) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what surrounded Christopher and Mal when they ran away from the murderer? | Thirty-two unicorns (page 70) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did the unicorns close in and surround Christopher and Mal after running from the murderer? | They were letting them ride (page 71) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Mal and Christopher say goodbye and thank you to the unicorns? | By bowing to them (page 74) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the name of the boat Mal and Christopher landed on after jumping off the cliff to get away from the murderer? | Neverfear (page 74) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where had Mal recognized the Neverfear's owner from? | At the Sailsman's (page 79) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal say to make the Neverfear's owner change his mind about letting them stay overnight? | "For love of the immortal" (page 80) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did sailors share that meant something? | Biscuits (page 81) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the name of the Neverfear's sailor? | Fidens Nighthand (page 81) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was Nighthand's first mate? | Warren (page 84) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was Nighthand's navigator? | Ratwin, a ratatoska (page 84) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did most ratatoskas do? | Collect gossip (page 85) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was Ratwin good at? | She was a map reader and collected directions, compass points and water routes (page 85) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the court of law in the Archipelago? | Azurial Senate (page 87) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where was the Azurial Senate located? | It traveled across the islands, flying through the sky and carried by harnessed longmas (page 87) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did the Azurial Senate set down? | In a square in each town built for that purpose (page 88) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did Nighthand dock to help Mal and Christopher get to the Azurial Senate? | Bryn Tor (page 91) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what creatures followed Christopher around Bryn Tor when he was on his way to the Azurial Senate? | Al-mirajes, hares with shining gold horns (page 92) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the tops of the metal lampposts resemble in Bryn Tor? | Apples (page 94) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what words were painted above the door of the Senate in five different languages? | "Due to the nature of the Senate's work, minors of any species are not permitted." (page 97) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the name of the marine scientist who spoke to the Senate about the weakening in the glimourie? | Irian Guinne (page 97) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was the head of Senate's protection? | Gardan Carr (page 100) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what type of distraction did Nighthand cause to help Mal and Christopher escape from the senatorial guards? | He made the lampposts fall like dominoes in a circle (page 101) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did Nighthand have to register his private boat on arrival at Bryn Tor? | It was a new law to keep better records because there were too many attacks at sea (page 103) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what type of attacks were happening at sea? | Water creatures were attacking ships - gargouilles and bridgi (page 103) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was Nighthand's favorite sot (pub)? | The Naiad's Tail (page 104) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was the barmaid at The Naiad's Tail? | Felia (page 104) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Nighthand make all of the lampposts fall? | He used the glamry blade (page 105) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what were Berserkers? | The finest warriors the world had ever seen who don't feel fear (page 106) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who did Irian say would know what the sickness that had taken hold of the glimourie was? | The sphinxes (page 109) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how often did the sphinxes eat their visitors? | Every one in a hundred times (page 109) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was historically a Berserker's job? | To guard the Immortal (page 110) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was The Immortal born from? | The world's first apple (page 110) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what special ability did The Immortal have? | They remembered everything they had seen, in every life (page 111) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was Christopher's world called? | Otherlands (page 112) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why wasn't Nighthand guarding the Immortal? | They vanished a hundred years ago (page 112) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the name of Mal's murderer? | Adam Kavil (page 112) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did the murderer find Mal at The Naiad's Tail? | The al-mirajes left a trail in green (page 113) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did Nighthand think it would be helpful to have Irian, a scholar, with them to meet the sphinxes? | To answer the riddles (page 114) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did Gelifen pluck a feather from his own wings and offer it to Christopher? | To use as a toothpick (page 116) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why was the fire breathed in a salamander's final breath important? | If you caught it with a scrap of wood, paper or straw, it never went out (page 117) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where was Irian the happiest? | In boats or libraries (page 118) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did they see when sailing into Vistaia to find food and water? | A dragon (page 121) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was strange about seeing the dragon when sailing into Vistaia? | Dragons didn't travel that far from their mountains (page 121) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the man who gave Mal the flying coat tell her she must never do? | Let down the extra material in the hem or the coat would fly too high (page 123) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the traveler on ocean boats give Mal in addition to the flying coat? | Her name (page 123) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was Christopher named after? | His Scottish great-great-grandfather (page 123) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what name was Mal short for? | Malum (page 124) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the carved figurehead on the prow of Nighthead's bow shaped like? | An apple (page 125) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what creature broke apart Nighthead's boat? | A kraken (page 131) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who rescued Mal, Christopher and Gelifen from the kraken's destruction? | Galatia, a nereid (page 134-135) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did Galatia rescue Mal? | She smelled the glimourie on her (page 135) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what creatures did Mal, Christopher, Nighthand and Irian ride to get away from the kraken? | Hippocamps (page 136) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did the hippocamps drop everyone off after the kraken attack? | The Lithian second capital - the City of Scholars (page 137) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was eaten by the kraken? | Warren (page 138) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was one of the richest women in the Archipelago and owned most of the City of Scholars? | Anja Trevasse (page 141-142) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Anja keep her perfume in? | A small, jeweled figure of a bird, cast in gold and emeralds with a ruby-studded crest of feathers atop its head (page 141) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did Anja go every day? | To the Gem Palace (page 142) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Anja hoard that was the most powerful kind of treasure? | Secrets (page 143) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how rich was Anja's great-grandfather? | He had coins for teeth (page 143) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Anja and Nighthand meet? | He saved her life when she fell off a boat (page 143) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why were Nighthand's earrings called his coffin fund? | They were worth enough to buy a coffin and a burial (page 144) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Anja want in exchange for her boat, Shadow Dancer? | To speak to Mal alone (page 145) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did Mal refuse to change into new clothes from Anja? | Leonor made her jersey (page 146) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what were the sails made out of on the Shadow Dancer? | The wings of the Pegasus (page 149) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what creature was very hard to tame but if they adopted you, they would fight to the death for you? | A twrch tryth (pronunciation: twoork troeeth) (page 151) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did cold weather keep away? | Predators, like dragons (page 153) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what type of weather did dragons crave? | Sunlight because they were cold-blooded (page 153) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the temperature like at the furthest north, on Arkhe? | Hot because of the Somnulum, the low-slung sun (page 153) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was real that Christopher thought was a Greek Myth? | Icarus (page 153) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the purest form of heat? | Somnulum which was formed when the ring of protection around the Archipelago was put in place by the Immortal (page 154) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, only what type of boats could moor at the foot of the sphinxes' mountain? | Small boats (page 156) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, which island allowed any boat to approach and land but never leave? | Island of Murderers (page 156) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what type of sphinx was a dangerous thing? | An impatient sphinx (page 158) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal give Christopher when he fell down the sphinx mountain? | Her flying coat (page 161) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was the first and only person Mal ever shared her flying coat with? | Christopher (page 161) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did the sphinxes make everyone solve riddles before giving information? | 1 - So they were not swamped by visitors seeking trivial knowledge (page 164) |
| 2 - It ensures they told their secrets to those who have already learned how to think (page 164) | |
| 3 - It was a way of attracting food (page 165) | |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, which sphinx did they meet upon arrival at the top of sphinx mountain? | Belhib (page 165) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who decided who the sphinxes could eat? | Naravirala, the leader of the sphinx clan and mother to Belhib (page 165) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the sphinxes do as they moved from mountain to mountain? | They carved their knowledge deep into the rock (page 168) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who answered the first sphinx riddle, "I am light as a feather, yet the strongest person can't hold me for five minutes. What am I?" | Nighthand answered "your breath" (page 171) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the answer to the riddle for Irian, "What has words but never speaks?" | A book (page 171) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal answer for the riddle, "What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening?" | A person (page 171) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the answer to Christopher's riddle, "There are two sisters. The first gives birth to the second, which in turn gives birth to the first. What are they?" | Day and night (page 172) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal eat with the sphinxes that she had never had fresh before? | Pantherfruit (page 174) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what real animal did Mal think was mythical? | Panthers (page 174) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who made the decision to protect Archipelago from destruction by humankind? | The Immortal - Heletha of Antiok (page 176) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, which Immortal decided to have a maze built around the Glimourie tree? | Ahmed Telos (page 177) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who did the Immortal, Ahmed Telos, find to build the maze around the Glimourie Tree? | Leonardo and Enzo da Vinci (page 177) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did the Immortal make Leonardo and Enzo forget about the maze they built? | They agreed to take a potion made by a centaur to make them forget (page 178) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why was the Immortal baby exceptionally exhausting? | It laughed and wept, without pause, for the first three years (page 179) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, which Immortal decided he didn't want the knowledge and took a potion to forget everything? | Marik (page 179) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did the sphinxes say the glimourie was disappearing? | Something made its way into the maze, and the tree was dying (page 182) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did the sphinxes refer to Marik? | The Man Who Said No (page 182) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who attacked Mal and Christopher in the City of Scholars? | The two boys who had been with the fortune teller (page 186) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did the two boys attack Mal and Christopher in the City of Scholars? | Kavil was offering money for her because she was the Immortal (page 187) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, Mal's full name, Malum, had two meanings in Latin. What were they? | Mischief and apple (page 190) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did the Kavil say someone wanted Mal dead? | His master wanted the Immortal to always be a child (page 199) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where was the man who ordered Kavil to kill Mal? | He was at the heart of the maze (page 200) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who told Kavil where to find Mal in the City of Scholars? | Anya Trevasse (page 202) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Nighthand do to his own hand after Kavil died? | He carved a fifth X into his palm (page 203) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Gelifen die? | Kavil cut him with a knife across his torso (page 204) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal think the worst question was? | "What if I had done it differently?" (page 207) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did Mal and Christopher bury Gelifen? | By the great oak in the forest that used to be a royal cemetery (page 208) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal and Christopher bury with Gelifen? | Flowers (page 209) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal carve in Gelifen's grave marker? | "With you so much is lost. We won't forget. Here lies Gelifen, the last and best griffin." (page 210) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why didn't Anya want Mal to drink the potion to become the Immortal? | She didn't want anyone to know her great-grandfather had killed his partner to become governor (page 215) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was the only centaur who knew the potion lore and had the skill to make it? | Petroc (page 217) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what bad news did Anya have about Petroc, the centaur who could make the potion? | He was banished from the island and now lived on the Island of Murderers (page 217) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what ingredient was Petroc missing to make the potion? | Gold plucked from the tree of living gold (page 217-218) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where was the tree of living gold? | On Areat, guarded by a jaculus dragon (page 218) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the only thing that could leave the Island of Murderers? | A dryad-wood boat (page 219) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where was the dryad-wood boat located? | The Island of the Immortal (page 220) |
| n the book Impossible Creatures, why did Irian stay on the boat at the Island of the Immortal? | To mend the leak in the side of the boat (page 221) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the air around the palace smell like? | Sea, flowers and rot (page 223) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal notice was wrong about the palace? | The grass on the meadow should have been longer, not trimmed (page 223) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what creature did they discover inside the palace? | Karkadanns, horned horses (page 226) |
| n the book Impossible Creatures, what color were the karkadanns found in the palace? | Darkest purple with yellow, stained hooves (page 225) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the name of the sailing boat Mal and Christopher found at the palace? | Ever Onward (page 227) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why would Nighthand's wound from the karkadann horn not heal? | The horn had a poison that intensified over time (page 233) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how tall was Nighthand? | Six feet ten inches (page 234) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why was it hard for Christopher to climb the tree of living gold? | It was burning hot from the sun (page 238) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how large was the jaculus, the tree dragon, at the tree of living gold? | The size of a hummingbird (page 240) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal and Christopher name the jaculus at the tree of living gold? | Jacques, pronounced Jac (page 243) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what promise did Christopher make to Jacques in order to not be eaten? | They would give him a name, and Christopher would tell stories of the importance of the jaculus when he returned back to his world (page 243) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, did all murderers get sent to the Island of Murderers? | No, only those judged to have done unspeakable harm (page 244) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the sign say as they approached the Island of Murderers? | "Those who enter may not leave. Those who can, turn back now. Nothing good awaits" (page 245) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was the warden they first met on the Island of Murderers? | Guillaume Broch (page 247) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how many wardens were on the Island of Murderers? | Four (page 247) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did they find the centaur Petroc on the Island of Murderers? | In a clearing in the forest, with his two hind legs chained in cuffs (page 248-249) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why could Petroc not administer the potion? | It needed to be heated by dryad fire, and there were no dryads on the island (page 250) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did the potion take all night to create? | The blood of the cetus needed six hours of steaming, and the flowers only bloomed two hours before dawn (page 254) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Petroc use the living gold for? | Not the potion but to forge the key to his chain and break free (page 257) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what deal did Petroc make to get off the Island of Murderers? | He would only add the final ingredient when they boarded their ship with him (page 257) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Petroc do when they reached their ship? | He added the final ingredient, threw the potion in the water and took off without them (page 257) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was the dryad queen who ruled the forest of Tār? | Erato (page 260) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why was sailing past the Island of Manticores dangerous? | The island was full of manticores who ate everything they saw (page 261) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what strict rule did Irian give about passing the Island of Manticores? | "Nobody is to bite a manticore" (page 262) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who saved Christopher from the manitcore? | Jacques (page 270) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the manticore reveal about the man who made his way into the maze? | He was a human from the Otherlands (page 268) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did Irian dive into the water after saying she didn't swim? | To send for help for Nighthand (page 272) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how could Irian speak Nerish? | She was part nereid on her father's side (page 272) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who answered Irian's Nerish call for help? | Anya (page 274) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who did Anya say could help Nighthand with his poisoning? | A female centaur, a centauride, on Antiok (page 274) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Mal and Christopher know how to sail to the dryads alone? | They followed the arrow's point of the casapararan (page 276) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the name for the Island of Dryads? | Tār (page 277) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did the dryads emerge from in the forest? | They stepped out of the trees (page 279) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Erato's cry sound like? | The moving of wood in storms (page 281) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the only way in which dryad burned? | If the fire was lit by a dryad (page 281) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Erato start the fire? | She rubbed her fingers together, hard and fast, and flames sprang from them (page 282) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what color change happened when the potion was heated over fire? | It turned from blue-black to a dark honey brown (page 282) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what food would do more for them than any other food? | Dryad fruit (page 285) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what wouldn't work after Mal drank the potion? | Her legs, she couldn't walk (page 286) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did the fruit the Dryads gave Christopher taste? | Still-living, like fruit with opinions, jokes and laughter in them (page 287) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did Jacques say Christopher should not carry Mal through the maze? | No mortal man had ever returned from the maze (page 288) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, on what island was the maze located? | Arkhe (page 288) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how long did it take Mal and Christopher to reach the maze after Mal drank the potion? | Twenty-eight hours (page 288) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the entrance of the maze look like? | A cavelike entrance amid rocks as wide as a double door (page 290) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what were the arrows in the maze made from? | Quills of a manticore's tail, fletched with feathers from a hippogriff and tipped with karkadann poison (page 291-292) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the chasm in the maze? | A great hole with a ledge on each side to inch around (page 293) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was different about the chasm once Mal and Christopher reached it? | It had grown and the ledge was barely two-thirds of the length of their foot (page 293) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was vertigo? | The fear that you will jump (page 294) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Christopher use to get across the chasm when the ledge ended? | His rope (page 296) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the gray mist in the maze smell like to Christopher? | Horror (page 297) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what feeling did the gray mist give Christopher when he breathed it in the maze? | Jealousy (page 297) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what had Kavil said about hope? | "Hope is a little lie that the powerless use to comfort themselves." (page 298) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what had Christopher forgotten to take with him when he left Mal in the maze? | The glamry blade (page 299) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was at the center of the maze? | A huge stone room, lit by lamps (page 301) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what three smells were in the center of the maze? | Human waste, the dank mist and the glimourie (page 301) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the glimourie smell like? | Pure distilled life (page 301) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was in the middle of the room at the center of the maze? | A great tree (page 301) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Christopher find in the tree at the center of the maze? | Melded and merged with the tree was a man's body and face, grown into the trunk (page 302) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who did the man melded into the tree in the maze say he was? | The future of the world (page 303) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did the man at the center of the maze say he had taken? | The Glimourie Tree and all its power into his own body (page 303) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did the man find his way to the center of the maze? | Enzo da Vinci made a secret copy of the maze before he took the potion and hid it, and the man, one of his descendants, found it (page 304) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who was the man in the center of the maze trying to take over the Glimourie Tree? | Francesco Sforza (page 304) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did Francesco want to become one with the Glimourie tree? | For freedom with absolute power (page 305) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who rescued Christopher from Francesco inside the center of the maze? | Mal flew in with the glamry blade, and Christopher cut Francesco out of the tree (page 308) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Jacques try to defeat Francesco? | With fire, unsuccessfully (page 313) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did Mal have a scar from Gelifen? | On her cheek (page 313) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what gesture of Mal's did Christopher know so well? | When she set her jaw and clenched her fists (page 313) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what message did Mal tell Christopher to pass on to the people? | "Greater than the world's chaos are its miracles" (page 314) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how was Mal able to fly straight upward into the air? | By cutting the flying coat's hem and letting the cloth unfurl (page 314) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal drop at Christopher's feet before she flew into the Somnulum? | The glamry blade and the casapasaran (page 314) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Mal's shout sound like as she flew into the Somnulum? | Like triumph, like joy, like love (page 314) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where did Christopher tell the boat to go after Mal flew into the Somnulum? | The Sphinxes' peninsula (page 317) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was planned after word spread about what Mal had done to save everything? | A funeral march (page 317) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why was it the greatest honor of Christopher's life to attend the funeral march? | He was the only human permitted (page 317-318) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, who led the funeral march? | Naravirala (page 318) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did the nereids walk on dry land during the funeral march? | To honor the loved lost (page 318) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what type of tears did Erato cry during the funeral march? | Tears of sap (page 318) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Christopher discover a sphinx could be wounded? | By breaking their heart (page 323) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what was the name of the healer who saved Nighthand? | Kentavir (page 323) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, where was the opening for Christopher back to the Otherlands? | Halfway around the Archipelago where boats could not reach (page 325) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, why did the sphinx break off a shard of her tooth for Christopher? | It would allow him to understand any language if he held it in his cheek (page 326-327) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, how did Christopher get back to the opening to the Otherlands? | On a dragon's back (page 328) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Jacques do right before Christopher returned home in the opening? | He scratched the back of Christopher's hand to leave a scar to remind him it was all real (page 329) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what did Christopher's father and grandfather have for him when he returned home? | A feast (page 332) |
| In the book Impossible Creatures, what had Mal whispered to Christopher before she flew into the Somnulum? | "Yes. Yes, I say yes, I say yes" (page 334) |
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