Questions from Rooskill

Upon arriving at Rooskill, what did Kat notice about Ledy Eleanor?

• She wore the monks-cloth plain dress common to maids and servants

• Her left hand was missing the thumb and forefinger

• She had a chatelaine dangling from her skirt waistband

• Her diamond necklace was identical to the one Mum wore on special days.

What had Leonore done to save the hunchbacked boy from a barren childhood?

• She gave her ear to the magister as a sacrifice

• She forged his papers and renamed him Leonard

• She kidnapped him from the rookskill dungeon

• She paid for his body-mending spinal surgery

When wandering Kat made her way to the kitchen, she saw that Cook was –

• Talking to a child who sat on the floor with the cats

• Cutting Amelie’s long hair with kitchen shears

• Feeding pancakes to twelve children who had snow-white hair

• Packing stacks of baked goods inside a basket for Mr. Storm

According to the Lady, the telegram from Kat’s mother said that –

• The stationmaster was to take Kat’s sister, Amelie, home to London

• Most of Kat’s childhood had been destroyed by fire

• Kat’s great-aunt Margaret had passed away in her sleep

• Kat’s father had been captured by the Germans

What did Lady Eleanor do as Colin cuddled the new pup?

• She slipped the silver chain with the dog charm over his head

• She instructed Hugo to lock Colin in the barn for fourteen days

• She secretly took one pup and placed it in her waistcoat packet

• She used the thirteenth charm to snuff out the life of the mother hound

At breakfast, what did the lady say when Kat asked where Isabelle was?

• Isabelle’s parents had come for her in the night

• The doctor had taken Isabelle away because she had a high fever

• Isabelle was locked alone in the keep as punishment for wandering

• Colin and Isabelle had been kidnapped by an intruder in the castle

The Lady was rendered frozen when Kat-

• Threw the vial of loin from Lord Craig’s chambers at the Lady’s face

• Placed a drop of hot chocolate into the tea that the Lady drank at breakfast

• Drove the pen into the weak place of the Lady’s mechanical heart

• Used her mechanical hand to crush the Lady’s delicate foot

Which of these instantly happened when Kat cut the Lady’s dangling chain?

• The chatelaine wound itself like a snake around the Lady’s neck

• Peters chain turned into a string of pearls

• The Lady’s metal right hand broke off

• Kat’s mechanical hand short-circuited and burst into flames at her side.

What happened to Mr. Storm after Kat used the chatelaine and shouted a phrase?

• The sword he held melted into a pod of silver liquid

• Hugo pushed him down the stairs that led to the Keep

• Amelie poked him in the eye with the thirteenth charm on Kat’s chatelaine

• He fell off the landing into a pit lined with bat-dung

Before the group dropped the pieces of the Lady into the well, Kat –

• Gave her chatelaine as a wedding gift to Cook

• Reattached the thimble to her own chatelaine

• Cut through the castle door with the scissors from her chatelaine

• Used the pen from her chatelaine to write a poem to Peter