Name _____________________________
Date ___________________
The 39 Clues: Book One: The Maze of Bones
Key 1 - Answer ID # 0721584
Chapters 1-5
1. Why did Alistair Oh want to be in an alliance with Dan and Amy?

2. Why were all the Cahills meeting at Grace's mansion?

3. Who would receive Grace's fortune?

4. Who was Richard Saunders?

5. What did Amy find in Grace's secret library?

Chapters 6-10
6. Who took the Poor Richard's Almanac from the mansion?

7. Why did Dan think Benjamin Franklin was a genius?

8. What was Irina's job in the alliance with the Kabras?

9. What was the loud boom sound in the Franklin Institute?

10. What was special about the flashlight Mr. McIntyre gave to Dan?

 

Name _____________________________
Date ___________________
The 39 Clues: Book One: The Maze of Bones
Key 1 - Answer ID # 0721584
Chapters 11-15
11. How did Amy and Dan get out of the Lucian base?

12. What did the inscription on the slab actually say in English?

13. What did Amy discover at 23 Rue des Jardins?

14. What room did Dan enter in the Lucian base?

15. How did Alistair show good faith in his alliance with Amy and Dan?

Chapters 16-20
16. How were the skulls a clue to the real clue?

17. What drew Dan toward the tombstone?

18. Who did Mr. McIntyre give back to Amy and Dan?

19. What did Amy always turn to to solve a problem?

20. Who was Alistair really aligned with?

 

Name _____________________________
Date ___________________
The 39 Clues: Book One: The Maze of Bones
Key 1 - Answer ID # 0721584
Review
21. Who did Amy and Dan see at the Franklin Institute?

Grace

Nellie

Man in black
22. What happened to Amy and Dan in the mausoleum?

Fell into the ground

Found a clue

Won the race
23. What did the Holts want from Amy and Dan?

Map

Money

Poor Richard's Almanac
24. How did Dan lose his backpack?

Didn't bring it

Left it on an airplane

Wedged between rails
25. What was the real clue Amy and Dan needed?

The map

The paper Dan held in his pants

The bell tower location
26. How many words did the first clue have?

5

1

10
27. Who translated French for Dan and Amy?

Amy

Dan

Nellie
28. What is Dan's current hobby?

Stamp collection

Baseball cards

Charcoal rubbings of tombstones
29. What was important about the word "resolution"?

Answer to all of the clues

An anagram for iron solute

No importance at all
30. Who threatened Dan and Amy about the money versus the challenge?

Spaskys

Holts

Kabras
31. What did Amy and Dan need to travel?

A passport

An adult

A plan
32. Who was Jonah Wizard?

A tour guide

TV star

Confidante
33. Where was Amy and Dan's first stop?

Philadelphia

Paris

Ile St-Louis
34. What are the Catacombs?

Saladin's home

A park in Paris

Underground mazes
35. What happened when Amy talked to the other Cahills?

She gave away all the clues.

She got tongue-tied.

She wouldn't stop talking.
36. Who was following Amy and Dan in Copley Square?

Mr. McIntyre

Irina Spasky

Holts

 

Name _____________________________
Date ___________________
The 39 Clues: Book One: The Maze of Bones
(Key 1 - Answer ID # 0721584)
Select the definition that most nearly defines the given word.
1.   exploits
 destroy completely
 something dangerous
 ability to speak three languages fluently
 daring acts
2.   manipulate
 similar in appearance
 a document that establishes the truth of something
 great suffering from worry
 influence or control
3.   embed
 a French policeman
 old; worn out
 to set or fix firmly in something
 a difficult and unpleasant situation
4.   decipher
 having an extreme fear
 to decode
 short and abrupt rudeness
 concentrate on a particular area
5.   voucher
 a document that establishes the truth of something
 influence or control
 something easily bent or reshaped
 a false name used by a person
6.   surveillance
 to set or fix firmly in something
 someone one can tell secrets to with trust
 something easily bent or reshaped
 a watch kept over an activity or person
7.   resemblance
 a large burial chamber above ground
 in separate pieces
 similar in appearance
 inactive; immobile
8.   pseudonym
 a false name used by a person
 having too high an opinion of oneself
 a large burial chamber above ground
 to decode
9.   trilingual
 influence or control
 daring acts
 ability to speak three languages fluently
 short and abrupt rudeness
10.   asunder
 a document that establishes the truth of something
 great suffering from worry
 in separate pieces
 a false name used by a person
11.   sarcasm
 unpleasant remarks intended to insult
 something taking the place of another
 a French policeman
 to set or fix firmly in something
12.   ornate
 rich or fancy in detail
 concentrate on a particular area
 destroy completely
 something easily bent or reshaped

 

The 39 Clues: Book One: The Maze of Bones
Key 1 - Answer ID # 0721584
Chapters 1-5
1. Why did Alistair Oh want to be in an alliance with Dan and Amy?
They were intelligent and youthful.
2. Why were all the Cahills meeting at Grace's mansion?
Grace's funeral at family cemetery
3. Who would receive Grace's fortune?
the winner of her challenge
4. Who was Richard Saunders?
Benjamin Franklin's pseudonym
5. What did Amy find in Grace's secret library?
Grace's jewelry box
Chapters 6-10
6. Who took the Poor Richard's Almanac from the mansion?
Alistair
7. Why did Dan think Benjamin Franklin was a genius?
He proposed a scientific study on different fart smells.
8. What was Irina's job in the alliance with the Kabras?
set a trap to eliminate Amy and Dan
9. What was the loud boom sound in the Franklin Institute?
a bomb
10. What was special about the flashlight Mr. McIntyre gave to Dan?
It was a black light reader.

 

The 39 Clues: Book One: The Maze of Bones
Key 1 - Answer ID # 0721584
Chapters 11-15
11. How did Amy and Dan get out of the Lucian base?
They broke a window.
12. What did the inscription on the slab actually say in English?
"Here lies Amy and Dan Cahill who stuck their noses into the wrong people's business."
13. What did Amy discover at 23 Rue des Jardins?
no building, but a cemetery instead
14. What room did Dan enter in the Lucian base?
arsenal room
15. How did Alistair show good faith in his alliance with Amy and Dan?
He held off the other Cahills from the Catacombs.
Chapters 16-20
16. How were the skulls a clue to the real clue?
They represent coordinates on a map.
17. What drew Dan toward the tombstone?
He saw the Lucian crest.
18. Who did Mr. McIntyre give back to Amy and Dan?
Saladin
19. What did Amy always turn to to solve a problem?
a library
20. Who was Alistair really aligned with?
Irina Spasky

 

The 39 Clues: Book One: The Maze of Bones
Key 1 - Answer ID # 0721584
Review
21. Who did Amy and Dan see at the Franklin Institute?

Grace

Nellie

Man in black
22. What happened to Amy and Dan in the mausoleum?

Fell into the ground

Found a clue

Won the race
23. What did the Holts want from Amy and Dan?

Map

Money

Poor Richard's Almanac
24. How did Dan lose his backpack?

Didn't bring it

Left it on an airplane

Wedged between rails
25. What was the real clue Amy and Dan needed?

The map

The paper Dan held in his pants

The bell tower location
26. How many words did the first clue have?

5

1

10
27. Who translated French for Dan and Amy?

Amy

Dan

Nellie
28. What is Dan's current hobby?

Stamp collection

Baseball cards

Charcoal rubbings of tombstones
29. What was important about the word "resolution"?

Answer to all of the clues

An anagram for iron solute

No importance at all
30. Who threatened Dan and Amy about the money versus the challenge?

Spaskys

Holts

Kabras
31. What did Amy and Dan need to travel?

A passport

An adult

A plan
32. Who was Jonah Wizard?

A tour guide

TV star

Confidante
33. Where was Amy and Dan's first stop?

Philadelphia

Paris

Ile St-Louis
34. What are the Catacombs?

Saladin's home

A park in Paris

Underground mazes
35. What happened when Amy talked to the other Cahills?

She gave away all the clues.

She got tongue-tied.

She wouldn't stop talking.
36. Who was following Amy and Dan in Copley Square?

Mr. McIntyre

Irina Spasky

Holts

 

The 39 Clues: Book One: The Maze of Bones
Key 1 - Answer ID # 0721584
1.   exploits
 destroy completely
 something dangerous
 ability to speak three languages fluently
 daring acts
2.   manipulate
 similar in appearance
 a document that establishes the truth of something
 great suffering from worry
 influence or control
3.   embed
 a French policeman
 old; worn out
 to set or fix firmly in something
 a difficult and unpleasant situation
4.   decipher
 having an extreme fear
 to decode
 short and abrupt rudeness
 concentrate on a particular area
5.   voucher
 a document that establishes the truth of something
 influence or control
 something easily bent or reshaped
 a false name used by a person
6.   surveillance
 to set or fix firmly in something
 someone one can tell secrets to with trust
 something easily bent or reshaped
 a watch kept over an activity or person
7.   resemblance
 a large burial chamber above ground
 in separate pieces
 similar in appearance
 inactive; immobile
8.   pseudonym
 a false name used by a person
 having too high an opinion of oneself
 a large burial chamber above ground
 to decode
9.   trilingual
 influence or control
 daring acts
 ability to speak three languages fluently
 short and abrupt rudeness
10.   asunder
 a document that establishes the truth of something
 great suffering from worry
 in separate pieces
 a false name used by a person
11.   sarcasm
 unpleasant remarks intended to insult
 something taking the place of another
 a French policeman
 to set or fix firmly in something
12.   ornate
 rich or fancy in detail
 concentrate on a particular area
 destroy completely
 something easily bent or reshaped