Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Crystal Cave? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. "I held it out to him. 'I don't want it. It's black inside. Look, you can see right through'" (I.2.110). What is this thing with the icky center?
A poisoned apricot
A Welsh delicacy—don't ask
Dried bat
Evil thoughts
Q. "…you talk as if you were just a voice and not a person…Or as if you'd gone somewhere else and left your body for something else to speak through. Like a horn being blown through to make the sound carry" (II.11.70). What is Cadal talking about here?
Merlin talking in his sleep
Merlin prophesying
Merlin tuning out Belasius
Merlin dealing with Dinias
Q. "…what Vortigern needed now was not logic and an engineer; he wanted magic, and something—anything—that promised quick safety, and kept his followers loyal" (III.10.37). Why might Vortigern need an engineer, even if he doesn't think he needs one?
He needs lots of war machines built.
He needs to re-build towns sacked by Saxons.
His tower walls keep falling down.
He wants to build a wall to keep Saxons out.
Q. "'He will be the sum of all our lives, and when he is grown he will come back and be crowned King at Winchester'" (V.10.69). Of whom is Merlin speaking here?
Ambrosius
Uther
Gorlois
Arthur
Q. "There are many stories about the Dance, how the stones were brought from Africa, and put up by giants of old, or how they were giants themselves, caught and turned to stone by a curse as they danced in a ring" (IV.7.8). What is Merlin talking about here?
Stonehenge
The Carnac Stones
The hanging stone of Gloucester
Killare