Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor
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40 free Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Thor has lost his hammer again, and this time the giants know it. The second Magnus Chase novel sends its undead hero from Hotel Valhalla to a haunted tomb, an elf lord's mansion and a hall full of giants, all to stop a wedding that Loki has arranged for his own ends. This quiz covers the whole book: the quest and its twists, Magnus, Sam, Blitzen and Hearthstone, the arrival of Alex Fierro, the gods and giants they meet, and the old Norse story that Rick Riordan reworked. A few questions look at the book itself, from its narrator and cover to the prize it won. It is written for readers who have just finished the novel, for fans of Rick Riordan's Greek myth books who are exploring the Norse side of his universe, and for teachers, librarians and book clubs who want a ready set of questions. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something.
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Q 01In Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor, what is the name of the thunder god's missing weapon?
Mjolnir
Mjolnir has been lost since the first book, and without it Thor cannot hold back a giant invasion of the human world.
Q 02In The Hammer of Thor, how does Alex Fierro stop Loki from blowing up Magnus Chase in Valhalla?
Cuts off his head
Alex cuts off his head, because Loki was channelling power through Magnus that would have wrecked the courtyard. Warriors killed in Valhalla come back to life.
Q 03Which giant does Loki arrange for Samirah al-Abbas to marry in Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor?
Thrym
Thrym holds Thor's stolen hammer, which by giant tradition is to be handed to the bride during the wedding.
Q 04Which selfie-loving god guards the Bifrost and scans the Nine Worlds for Magnus Chase?
Heimdall
Heimdall uses his horn Gjallar as a phone and selfie stick, a hobby that keeps distracting him from watching over the worlds.
Q 05As which animal does shape-shifter Alex Fierro run Magnus Chase over on arriving at Hotel Valhalla?
A cheetah
A cheetah knocks Magnus flat on floor nineteen: it is Alex, newly dead and far from happy about waking up in Valhalla.
Q 06At the end of The Hammer of Thor, Annabeth says Magnus Chase should meet which sea god's son?
Percy Jackson
Percy Jackson is Annabeth's boyfriend and a son of Poseidon, a useful ally for a hero who must chase Loki across the sea.
Q 07How does Magnus Chase keep Blitzen alive after the Skofnung Sword wounds him in The Hammer of Thor?
Turns him to stone
Magnus turns him to stone by collapsing the tomb roof: sunlight petrifies dwarves, which stops the bleeding until a cure is found.
Q 08In The Hammer of Thor, the Skofnung Sword must never be drawn in the presence of whom?
Women
Women must not be nearby when the blade is drawn, a rule taken from the Icelandic sagas. Loki forces Magnus's uncle to break it with Samirah in the room.
Q 09At which game must Magnus Chase and Alex Fierro beat the giants to win the giant king's help?
Bowling
Bowling settles it, at a giant-run alley in Jotunheim where a hidden portal in front of the pins keeps swallowing their shots.
Q 10In The Hammer of Thor, the shape-shifting god Loki is which relation to Alex Fierro?
Mother
Mother is the surprise: Loki took a female form to give birth to Alex, while remaining father to Alex's half-sister Samirah.
Q 11Magnus Chase searches a wight's barrow in which Massachusetts town, hoping to find Thor's hammer?
Provincetown
Provincetown hides only a trap: the tomb holds the Skofnung Sword instead, and Loki turns up to demand the blade as a bride-price.
Q 12Which of Thor's talking goats meets Magnus Chase in a Boston café with news of the missing hammer?
Otis
Otis reports that the hammer lies in a wight's tomb, then takes a thrown ax to the heart before he can finish his warning.
Q 13In The Hammer of Thor, wounds made by the Skofnung Sword can only be healed by which object?
Its whetstone
Its whetstone, the Skofnung Stone, is the only cure, which sends Magnus and Hearthstone to another world to bargain for it.
Q 21Which wealthy elf, father of Hearthstone, owns the cure Blitzen needs in The Hammer of Thor?
Alderman
Alderman blames his deaf son for a family tragedy and will only part with the cure once Hearthstone has paid him in gold.
Q 22In The Hammer of Thor, Hearthstone must cover a monster-skin rug with gold to pay which Norse debt?
A wergild
A wergild is blood money for a death: Hearthstone's father holds him responsible for his little brother, killed by a creature from the well.
Q 23What drives Hearthstone's father insane at his own party in Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor?
A cursed ring
A cursed ring from a dwarf's hoard, taken despite its owner's warning, makes him accuse his guests of theft and set water spirits on them.
Q 14To reach Alfheim in The Hammer of Thor, how do Magnus Chase and Hearthstone leave Midgard?
Jump out of a plane
They jump out of a plane in mid-flight and land in the bright world of the elves, where two police elves escort them to the family mansion.
Q 15Which dwarf, living as a fish in a river, is forced to give Magnus Chase and Hearthstone his gold?
Andvari
Andvari, known as the Careful One, hides a hoard big enough to cover a whole rug in gold, the payment Hearthstone's father demands.
Q 16Which golden-haired wife of Thor summons Magnus Chase and his friends to Asgard?
Sif
Sif had been watching the group and pulled them to her palace once they knew where the hammer was. She later helps dress Alex for the wedding.
Q 17Which giant king turns out to be the assassin who kills Thor's goat in The Hammer of Thor?
Utgard-Loki
Utgard-Loki wanted to scare Magnus away from Loki's trap, and later trades what he knows for feats that impress his fellow giants.
Q 18In The Hammer of Thor, which wife of Loki catches dripping venom in a bowl to spare his face?
Sigyn
Sigyn stays beside Loki all through his punishment, and when he finally breaks free she leaves with him as the gods close in.
Q 19The Hammer of Thor won which American Library Association prize for its portrayal of Alex Fierro?
Stonewall Book Award
The Stonewall Book Award's children's and young adult prize honours books about LGBTQ experience, and the judges singled out Alex as a hero.
Q 20Which actor reads the audiobook of The Hammer of Thor, published by Listening Library?
Kieran Culkin
Kieran Culkin narrates the second Magnus Chase novel, and his recording went on sale the same day as the hardcover and ebook.
Q 24In The Hammer of Thor, which silent god of vengeance squashes the giant bridegroom with his shoe?
Vidar
Vidar storms into the cave behind Thor wearing a shoe pieced together from every scrap of footwear ever thrown away.
Q 25After freeing Loki in The Hammer of Thor, Randolph Chase falls through a chasm into which realm?
Helheim
Helheim is where the unworthy dead go. Randolph, already dissolving for breaking the sword's rules, refuses Magnus's outstretched hand.
Q 26What does Loki promise to return to Randolph Chase in exchange for his help in The Hammer of Thor?
His wife and daughters
His wife and daughters drowned in a storm at sea while the family searched for a Viking relic, and Loki uses that grief to control him.
Q 27Alex Fierro's garrote in The Hammer of Thor began as a cutting wire used in which craft?
Pottery
Pottery runs in the Fierro family, who worked clay near Mexico City since before the Aztecs, and Alex's room in Valhalla has its own wheel.
Q 28Samirah al-Abbas serves the Norse gods as a Valkyrie in Magnus Chase while following which religion?
Islam
Islam is Samirah's faith, so she works for the Norse gods without worshipping them. Her grandparents, originally from Baghdad, raised her in Boston.
Q 29Samirah al-Abbas takes lessons from Barry al-Jabbar in The Hammer of Thor to become what?
A pilot
A pilot is what Samirah hopes to be, and in this book her instructor is briefly possessed by a giant with an urgent message for Magnus.
Q 30Amir Fadlan, fiancé of Samirah al-Abbas in Magnus Chase, works in a shop selling which food?
Falafel
Falafel from the Fadlan family shop is a favourite of Magnus, and in this book Amir is shocked to learn about Samirah's double life.