Haroun and the Sea of Stories Comprehension Trivia

Question 1

How is the Gup Army sorted?

Accepted Answer

By Pages, Chapters, and Volumes

Question 2

Why does Haroun get in trouble when they return to Gup City?

Accepted Answer

He doesn't, it was a cover for his party.

Question 3

How was Haroun able to make the wish for Kahani to start turning again?

Accepted Answer

Wishwater from Iff the Water Genie and concentrating his will for 11mins

Question 4

Blabbermouth hides that she's a girl because girls have less opportunities than boys.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

What is the name of the protagonist?

Accepted Answer

Haroun

Question 6

Khattum-Shud was identical to snivelling, drivelling, mingy, stingy, measley, weaselly Mr Sengupta.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

The power generator on the Dark Ship was destroyed by Butt, by disassembling his body

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

Why was Rashid called a spy?

Accepted Answer

He witnessed Princess Batcheat being kidnapped by the Chupwalas

Question 9

What is the name of the hidden moon and why was it never found?

Accepted Answer

Kahani - it moves too fast to be detected

Question 10

Why does Haroun feel that it is duty to help his dad tell stories again?

Accepted Answer

Haroun broke his fathers heart and he couldn't tell stories anymore

Question 11

How as Khattum-Shud able to be in two places?

Accepted Answer

He became Shadowy and his shadow became more Person like, so they separated

Question 12

Haroun decides to save the ocean because...

Accepted Answer

If the ocean is destroyed then all the beauty and stories will be lost

Question 13

The author makes a change to the story in Chapter 11 - Princess Batcheat. What was that change?

Accepted Answer

He changes POV from limited 3rd person to omniscient 3rd person

Question 14

How did Haroun convince the water genie to take him to the Walrus?

Accepted Answer

He stole his disconnecting tool

Question 15

Only a single night passed while Haroun and Rashid were visiting the Sea of Stories.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

The genre of the book is

Accepted Answer

Magic Realism

Question 17

When they were captured and taken to the Dark Ship, what happened to Butt the Hoopoe?

Accepted Answer

The Chupwalas removed his memory cells and command module

Question 18

Blabbermouth saved Bolo when the Chup ambassador came to negotiate. What did she save him from and what did it cost her?

Accepted Answer

A bomb, revealihg she was female and then getting fired for it

Question 19

The Twilight Strip is the zone between the two cities where it is neither night or day and guarded by a wall of energy.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

"Suffering Moses! Do you know to whom you speak?" What did Haroun say to Mr Buttoo to get that reaction?

Accepted Answer

That he looked like a mail-coach driver

Question 21

Rashid was able to communicate with Mudra by lipreading

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

How does the Gup army behave as they head to the Twilight Strip?

Accepted Answer

They chattered, discussed and argued a lot

Question 23

Water Genies are first mentioned in Chapter One

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

The Walrus is the figurehead of Gup City

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

Mudra's title in the Chup city was...

Accepted Answer

Champion Warrior of Chup

Question 26

What happens after Haroun and Rashid swap beds in the house boat?

Accepted Answer

Haroun meets the water genie in the bathroom

Question 27

How do we know that Haroun's experiences were not just a dream?

Accepted Answer

Rashid tells it as a story and Haroun's wish comes true.

Question 28

The Khattum-Shud that was on the Dark Ship was his real self, not his shadow.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

What is the rhetorical question Haroun asks twice in Chapter One?

Accepted Answer

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Question 30

After Soraya leaves, what problem does Haroun have?

Accepted Answer

Haroun can't concentrate for more than 11 minutes

Question 31

Why did Haroun want Mr Butt to take him and Rashid to the Dull Lake?

Accepted Answer

No man can be sad who looks upon that sight

Question 32

How do Iff the Water Genie, Haroun and Butt the Hoopoe discover that the Sea of Stories is poisoned?

Accepted Answer

Haroun turned into a spider in the princess rescue dream

Question 33

Khattum-Shud's purpose in poisoning and plugging the ocean was to

Accepted Answer

control the world and eliminate Fun, by preventing the story water renewing

Question 34

Select the members of the team that Haroun puts together save the ocean

Accepted Answer

Goopy, Bagha, Mali, Iff and Butt

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