Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Splendors and Glooms? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who does Clara say should have lived instead of her?
Charles Augustus
Adelaide
Grisini
Richard Nixon
Q. What is the big, bad secret that Clara has been hiding for her entire life?
That she poisoned the watercress
That she actually wants to be a singer
That she thinks her mother is insufferable
That she gave her watercress to Charles Augustus on that fateful day
Q. What does Mrs. Pinchbeck reveal to Lizzie Rose after the police come to question Grisini about Clara's disappearance?
That Grisini was also previously questioned in the disappearance of other children
That she saw Grisini hide Clara in the pantry
That the police are big old meanies who are picking on Grisini because he's a foreigner
That she's kicking them all out and they need to find someplace else to live
Q. What does Cassandra show Parsefall in order to get him to steal the phoenix-stone?
How she can use it to turn snow into gold coins
An article in Vogue about how phoenix-stones are the new hot trend
A book about the phoenix-stone and all of its magical properties
A memory of how Grisini shaved off Parsefall's finger
Q. What does Clara ask her parents to do at the end of the book?
Move to Strachan's Ghyll where they can all start over again
Burn the painting of her dead siblings
Take in Lizzie Rose and Parsefall as their adopted children
Buy them all tickets to the next One Direction concert