2023 BoB 11th Practice Questions

In which book is a boy excited about the prospect of meeting Mahatma Gandhi?

• Ground Zero

• WhatisHisFace

• Lizard's Tale

• They Called Us Enemy

Answer explanation

Answer is in page 290.

'Where are you going?' Lili asked Lizard and Roshan.

'We're going to eat, and then w're going to a meeting. Want to come?' asked Roshan.

'Meeting?' said Lili, repeating the last thing tat her eats had taken in. 'What meeting?'

'It's a great man! Mahatma Gandhi!' said Roshan.

In which book does a girl secretly follow a young man just after she witnesses him committing an act of sabotage by cutting a telegraph line?

• Our Castle by the Sea

• Troublemaker

• The Wind Singer

• Among the Hidden

Answer explanation

Answer is in page 236.

In which book does a grandmother teach her granddaughter how to plant seeds - "Not too close, not too deep. Give your seeds space to sleep."?

• Among the Hidden

• Serafina's Promise

• While I Was Away

• Efren Divided

Answer explanation

Answer is in page 107.

Gogo shows me how to plant seed.

Not too close, not too deep.

Give your seeds space to sleep.

In which book does a boy get a nickname because of his nose and his skin color?

• Lintang and the Pirate Queen

• Lizard's Tale

• While I Was Away

• Efren Divided

Answer explanation

Answer is in page 132.

'El Periquito Blanco...that's what kids call me. They don't even bother to do it behind my back. They think I'm too stupid to understand them making fun of my white sin and big noise."

In which book do two girls get locked into an equipment shed?

• While I Was Away

• The Girl fro the Sea

• The Not-so-uniform Life of Holly Mei

• Scritch Scratch

Answer explanation

Answer is in page 248.

"The door. It won't open." Gemma continues to fiddle with the knob.

I freeze. My phone is dead, the door is broken, and we are somewhere no one is going to find us. I pound on the door and start yelling, hoping someone will hear us, but after a minute, my throat and my fists hurt, and I know no one will come.

In which book is salt the source of a city's wealth?

• The Wind Singer

• The Ogress and the Orphans

• Among the Hidden

• Alone

Answer explanation

Answer is in page 1.

At the time the strangers came, the Manth people were still in the low mat-walled shelters that they had carried with them in their hunting days. The domed huts were clustered around the salt mine that was to become the source of their wealth. This was long before they had built the great city that stands above the salt caverns today.

In which book do people crawl around on hands and knees looking for those they love, for anyone that might be trapped and still alive?

• Scritch Scratch

• Serafina's Promise

• Dragon Skin

• Efren Divided

Answer explanation

Answer is in page 268.

Around me, people crawl

on hands and knees,

looking for those they lve.

They scratch and paw

like hungry animals,

searching for food.

Are people still trapped?

Are people still aive?

Could Papa be trapped?

Could Papa be alive?

In which book does a girl feel like a ventriloquist's puppet when her teacher introduces her as a new student to the class?

• WhatisHisFace

• The Not-so-uniform Life of Holly Mei

• While I Was Away

• Scritch Scratch

Answer explanation

Answer is in page 92.

I don't know where to look or how to escape their stares; all I wanted was to sit down as soon as I can.

"I would like all of you help Waka as much as you can. If you would like to know more about America, I am sure she'd be happy to answer your questions. I hope you can become good friends. It's nice to meet you!" he stated for me.

I felt like a ventriloquist's dummy at being puppet mastered like that.

In which book does a worker ask whether a family have air conditioning in their house because they always have the windows shut?

• Ground Zero

• While I Was Away

• The Not-so-uniform Life of Holly Mei

• Among the Hidden

Answer explanation

Answer is in page 21.

In which book does a desperate father sell his prized tool set in order to raise money for his family?

• Among the Hidden

• Efren Divided

• Troublemaker

• Ice Dogs

Answer explanation

Answer is in page 83.