Defence Against the Dark Arts Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. When the Killing Curse is introduced in class, who is identified as the only person then known to have survived it?
Albus Dumbledore
Neville Longbottom
Alastor Moody
Harry Potter
2. At night, a traveller sees a distant lantern that keeps moving and drawing them toward a bog. Which creature most closely matches this danger?
A Red Cap
A Hinkypunk
A Kappa
A boggart
3. Harry destroys Tom Riddle's diary with a basilisk fang. What property of the fang makes it capable of destroying that Horcrux?
It carries destructive basilisk venom
It absorbs the diary's memories
It reverses the diary's protective spells
It transfers the Horcrux into the basilisk
4. A hostile wizard raises a wand, but you want to remove the immediate threat without injuring the wizard. Which spell is designed to knock the wand from the person's hand?
Expelliarmus
Stupefy
Petrificus Totalus
Impedimenta
5. In Professor Moody's classroom demonstration, which Unforgivable Curse causes intense pain without requiring a physical wound?
The Imperius Curse
The Killing Curse
The Cruciatus Curse
The Conjunctivitis Curse
6. What animal form does Harry Potter's corporeal Patronus take?
A wolf
An otter
A stag
A doe
7. A grindylow has seized someone underwater. Based on Professor Lupin's lesson, which feature offers the best chance to break its grip?
Its eyes cannot tolerate wandlight
Its long fingers are brittle
Its tentacles release anything warm
Its scales dissolve in fresh water
8. What is the defining effect of the Imperius Curse?
It places the target's actions under another person's control
It places the target in magical sleep
It reveals the target's greatest fear
It erases the target's memories
9. During an encounter with a Dementor, which defence can drive the creature back when successfully cast?
The Shield Charm
The Patronus Charm
The Disarming Charm
The Stunning Spell
10. A boggart emerges from a wardrobe and assumes the form of your greatest fear. Which incantation helps defeat it by turning that form into something amusing?
Expecto Patronum
Riddikulus
Finite Incantatem
Reducto
11. Which spell would best fit a dueller's intention to stun an opponent rather than disarm or bind them?
Locomotor Mortis
Expelliarmus
Stupefy
Petrificus Totalus
12. A newly bitten person fears that they will transform into a werewolf every night. Which correction best matches the books' account of lycanthropy?
Transformation occurs whenever the person becomes angry
Transformation happens only after the person uses dark magic
Transformation is tied to the full moon
Transformation continues permanently after the first change
13. You need to examine a wand and reveal an echo of the most recent spell it performed. Which incantation should you use?
Specialis Revelio
Deletrius
Finite Incantatem
Prior Incantato
14. Where would a student be most likely to encounter Red Caps according to Professor Lupin's lesson?
In places marked by bloodshed, such as old battlefields
Beside lakes occupied by merpeople
In treetops inhabited by Bowtruckles
In homes where a boggart has been disturbed
15. Why do Harry, Hermione, and their classmates establish Dumbledore's Army during Dolores Umbridge's time as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher?
To prepare for an official inter-house duelling tournament
To investigate the disappearance of former teachers
To replace the school's existing prefect system
To practise defensive magic that Umbridge refuses to teach practically
16. An opponent fires a jinx directly toward you. Which spell is primarily intended to create a magical shield against the attack?
Incarcerous
Relashio
Confundo
Protego