Six of Crows Book Quiz
Eight multiple-choice questions on Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows (2015) — plot, characters and the moments everyone quotes. Two minutes, instant score, every answer explained below. For the full mixed-classics version, take the original book quiz — 15 questions across the whole canon.
All 8 questions and answers
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- What job does merchant Jan Van Eck hire Kaz Brekker's crew for? — Break into the Ice Court and abduct the scientist who created jurda parem. Bo Yul-Bayur, the Shu chemist behind jurda parem, is being held in Fjerda's most secure prison - and every government wants him.
- What is jurda parem? — A drug that drives Grisha power to lethal extremes, then destroys the user. Jurda laced with parem makes Grisha impossibly powerful for one terrible burst - which is why its very existence is a weapon.
- Why does the crew break Matthias Helvar out of Hellgate? — The convicted drüskelle is the one living expert on the Ice Court's defenses. Matthias knows the fortress; Kaz and Nina's history is what put him in the prison jumpsuit in the first place.
- What is Inej Ghafa's epithet in the Dregs? — The Wraith. Kaz's spy, a former Suli acrobat sold to the Menagerie who now walks rooftops and collects secrets. 'Demjin' is Matthias's nickname for Kaz.
- Why does Kaz never take off his gloves? — Skin against skin drags him back to the corpses he swam through in the harbor. After Pekka Rollins conned him and his brother, Kaz dragged Jordie's plague-ridden body to the barge and swam to shore through the dead - and never fully came back.
- What do the crew find when they finally reach Bo Yul-Bayur? — The scientist is already dead - the job becomes smuggling out his son. Kuwei Yul-Bo cannot reproduce the formula - but he is proof of it, and every government on the map wants that proof.
- What does Nina do during the escape from the Ice Court? — Takes jurda parem herself and turns her Heartrender power into a weapon. The parem lets her stop hearts through stone walls - and leaves her carrying an addiction the next book has to answer for.
- How does the job end for Kaz's crew? — Van Eck betrays them and kidnaps Inej. The payment becomes a counter-con: the crew's spy is gone, Kaz liquidates everything he owns, and the rescue is the book Crooked Kingdom opens on.
About Six of Crows
Kaz Brekker - gloves, cane, and the most dangerous reputation in Ketterdam's criminal Barrel - is offered the heist of a lifetime: break into the Ice Court, Fjerda's unbreakable fortress, and steal the man who invented jurda parem before the drug burns the world down. Six outcasts, one impossible job, and the book that made the Grishaverse a household name. The novel runs about 150,000 words (roughly 465 pages in a standard paperback) — about 10 hours and 30 minutes of reading at an average pace. Before you commit, see the full breakdown in how long it takes to read Six of Crows or calculate reading time for any other book.
Moderate - fast, cinematic modern prose; the six rotating viewpoints ask you to keep score, and the content (violence, trafficking, addiction) is adult-leaning YA. If you get 6 or more of the eight questions right, the book clearly stuck.
What this quiz covers
Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows sits in our epic, adventure & fantasy shelf, and the eight questions follow the book the way a reader experiences it: how the story opens, the turn in the middle, the characters who carry it, and the ending people still argue about. You will not be asked for page numbers or publication trivia — but three or four questions are built to separate people who read the book from people who read a summary. If a question stumps you, that gap is your reading list talking.
Fair warning for the ambitious: readers who clear this quiz often move straight to the reading-time breakdown for Six of Crows to plan the reread, then test the rest of their shelf against the mixed classic literature quiz.
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Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the Six of Crows quiz?
Eight multiple-choice questions covering Leigh Bardugo's plot, characters and most famous moments. The quiz takes about two minutes and your score is instant.
Is the Six of Crows book quiz free?
Yes — no signup, no email, nothing to install. Answer the eight questions and get your score immediately.
What score should I aim for?
8/8 means you know the book cold; 6+ is a solid score. Below 4, the book is calling you back for a reread.
Is the Six of Crows quiz hard?
Moderate - fast, cinematic modern prose; the six rotating viewpoints ask you to keep score, and the content (violence, trafficking, addiction) is adult-leaning YA. The questions themselves stick to famous, load-bearing moments — the scenes and lines the book is remembered for — so a genuine read usually scores 6+.
How long is the Six of Crows reading itself?
About 150,000 words — roughly 465 pages, or about 10 hours and 30 minutes at an average pace. The full pace breakdown is in how long it takes to read Six of Crows.