Gallant by V.E. Schwab: Full-Book Quiz with Answer Key

Part One: Plot and Sequence (Questions 1–8) 8 questions · 4 multiple-choice · 4 short-answer · 1 point each unless noted (2 points for short answers) 1. Multiple choice. What event ends Olivia's time at Merilance School? A. A letter arrives from her uncle Arthur Prior, inviting her home to Gallant. B. A matron discovers her stealing food and expels her. C. She runs away and is caught at the train station. D. The school closes for lack of funding. 2. Multiple choice. What does Olivia find hidden between the headboard and the wall in her bedroom at Gallant? A. A red journal with a gilded G on the cover B. A key to the garden door C. A photograph of her mother D. A lock of her father's hair 3. Multiple choice. When Olivia crosses the wall to retrieve her mother's journal, what happens when she tries to return? A. The wall's edge keeps receding, and she finds herself facing a ruined, colorless version of Gallant. B. The iron door locks behind her, trapping her in the field. C. She wakes up in her bed at Gallant, unsure if the journey was real. D. Matthew opens the gate and pulls her through before the master can reach her. 4. Multiple choice. What does Olivia realize about the master's conjured soldiers during the final confrontation at the wall? A. Each soldier is formed around a bone that anchors its existence. B. They are ghouls bound to the master's will. C. They are animated by drops of Prior blood. D. They are illusions that vanish when looked at directly. 5. Short answer. What happens to Matthew after he pushes Olivia out of the way of the soldier's sword? 6. Short answer. What does Olivia find in the fountain pool when she first escapes the house beyond the wall? 7. Multiple choice. What does the master do with the two bones he tosses at Olivia in the sitting room? A. He grows them into her parents, conjured from ash. B. He turns them into two new soldiers. C. He crushes them into dust and scatters them. D. He throws them beyond the wall to summon more ghouls. 8. Short answer. What does Olivia do with the red journal in the music room after losing her mother's green journal? ## Part Two: Character Motivation (Questions 9–13) 5 questions · 3 multiple-choice · 2 short-answer · 1 point each unless noted (2 points for short answers) 9. Multiple choice. Why does Olivia attack Anabelle at Merilance? A. Anabelle read her mother's journal aloud and tore pages from it. B. Anabelle mocked Olivia's silence in front of the other girls. C. Anabelle stole the clementine Olivia had saved from the kitchen. D. Anabelle reported Olivia to Matron Agatha for stealing cookies. 10. Multiple choice. Why does Matthew initially want Olivia to leave Gallant? A. He believes there are no more Priors and that his dead father could not have sent the letter. B. He fears she will inherit the house before he can claim it. C. He thinks she is a ghost sent to haunt him. D. He is angry that she resembles his dead brother. 11. Short answer. Why does Olivia go beyond the wall to find Thomas instead of letting Matthew go? 12. Multiple choice. Why does the master of the other house believe Olivia belongs to him? A. Her mother carried a piece of him, making Olivia half his. B. She was born on Gallant's grounds. C. She accepted his letter and came willingly. D. She used his power to revive the dead rose. 13. Short answer. Why does Olivia copy her mother's journal entries into the red journal by hand? ## Part Three: Theme and Symbol (Questions 14–17) 4 questions · 3 multiple-choice · 1 short-answer · 1 point each unless noted (2 points for short answers) 14. Multiple choice. What does the wall between Gallant and the other house most directly represent? A. The boundary between the living world and the realm of Death B. The boundary between wealth and poverty C. The boundary between childhood and adulthood D. The boundary between memory and forgetting 15. Multiple choice. What does the yellow flower Olivia spots at Merilance symbolize in the opening chapter? A. Hope and color as defiance against the gray institution B. A warning that spring is ending C. The approach of the ghoul that haunts the shed D. A sign that the matrons are watching her 16. Multiple choice. What does the phrase