A Court of Thorns and Roses Book Quiz
Eight multiple-choice questions on Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015) — plot, characters and the moments everyone quotes. Two minutes, instant score, every answer explained below. For the full mixed-classics version, take the original book quiz — 15 questions across the whole canon.
All 8 questions and answers
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- Why does Feyre hunt in the winter woods at the opening? — Her family is starving and her father can't provide. 'once I'd dreamed and breathed and thought in color and light and shape' - that was before a failed merchant father, a promise to her mother, and winters of hunting to feed them all.
- What does Feyre kill that starts the plot? — A large wolf that is actually a faerie in disguise. Andras was a faerie sent in wolf form across the border - killing him triggers the Treaty's price: a life for a life.
- What is the price the Treaty demands? — Feyre must live out her life in Prythian, in the faerie lands. She is taken across the wall to Tamlin's Spring Court - kill a faerie like a faerie would be killed, or be killed. She chooses to go.
- What is Tamlin? — High Lord of the Spring Court - and a shape-shifter. The mask is literal: the whole court wears them. Tamlin can shift into a beast, and his roar fills the night she almost dies for it.
- Who has cursed Tamlin and his court? — Amarantha, the self-styled High Queen who rules Under the Mountain. Amarantha took the whole Spring Court's skins - Tamlin's mask is the curse's mark, and the blight spreading through his lands is hers.
- What does Feyre ask for almost as soon as she's settled? — Paint and brushes. 'Paint... I'd like some paint, and brushes.' The High Fae find it strange - Lucien makes it happen, and painting keeps her sane.
- What is the answer to Amarantha's final riddle? — Love. Amarantha's riddle promises her freedom if solved - and Feyre fails it on paper, never guessing the word. She answers it with her hands instead, through three trials that each cost her something.
- How does Feyre end the novel? — Made High Fae by the High Lords after dying in the trials. She wins by declaring the answer - 'Love' - as Amarantha kills her, and the seven High Lords' power brings her back remade: Feyre Archeron, High Fae.
About A Court of Thorns and Roses
Feyre hunts to keep her starving family alive in a world where humans lost the war to the faeries centuries ago - and when she kills a wolf in the winter woods, something comes to collect. A Beauty-and-the-Beast retelling that opens a fantasy series of more than thirteen million copies. The novel runs about 80,000 words (roughly 419 pages in a standard paperback) — about 5 hours and 36 minutes of reading at an average pace. Before you commit, see the full breakdown in how long it takes to read A Court of Thorns and Roses or calculate reading time for any other book.
Moderate - modern, fast first-person prose; the fairy-tale bones make it easy to follow, but the content is for adults, not middle-grade readers. If you get 6 or more of the eight questions right, the book clearly stuck.
What this quiz covers
Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses sits in our romance & coming-of-age shelf, and the eight questions follow the book the way a reader experiences it: how the story opens, the turn in the middle, the characters who carry it, and the ending people still argue about. You will not be asked for page numbers or publication trivia — but three or four questions are built to separate people who read the book from people who read a summary. If a question stumps you, that gap is your reading list talking.
Fair warning for the ambitious: readers who clear this quiz often move straight to the reading-time breakdown for A Court of Thorns and Roses to plan the reread, then test the rest of their shelf against the mixed classic literature quiz.
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Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the A Court of Thorns and Roses quiz?
Eight multiple-choice questions covering Sarah J. Maas's plot, characters and most famous moments. The quiz takes about two minutes and your score is instant.
Is the A Court of Thorns and Roses book quiz free?
Yes — no signup, no email, nothing to install. Answer the eight questions and get your score immediately.
What score should I aim for?
8/8 means you know the book cold; 6+ is a solid score. Below 4, the book is calling you back for a reread.
Is the A Court of Thorns and Roses quiz hard?
Moderate - modern, fast first-person prose; the fairy-tale bones make it easy to follow, but the content is for adults, not middle-grade readers. The questions themselves stick to famous, load-bearing moments — the scenes and lines the book is remembered for — so a genuine read usually scores 6+.
How long is the A Court of Thorns and Roses reading itself?
About 80,000 words — roughly 419 pages, or about 5 hours and 36 minutes at an average pace. The full pace breakdown is in how long it takes to read A Court of Thorns and Roses.