Sarah J. Maas
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50 free Sarah J. Maas trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Sarah J. Maas began her first novel as a teenager and went on to write three hugely popular fantasy series. Her books mix court intrigue, slow-burning relationships and heroines who are allowed to be vain, angry and brave all at once, and they have turned casual fans into people who annotate paperbacks and argue about which book to start with. This quiz covers all three worlds. Expect questions on the assassin Celaena Sardothien and the glass castle she is summoned to, on Feyre, Tamlin, Rhysand and the faerie courts of Prythian, and on Bryce Quinlan's modern city of angels, shifters and Fae. There are also questions about Maas herself: where the stories came from, how they were first published, and what happened when television came calling. The early questions suit anyone who has finished a book or two. The later ones are for fans who know their side characters and companion novellas. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few facts even on the ones you miss.
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Q 01Which AI chatbot did an Iowa school district consult before pulling A Court of Mist and Fury from its libraries?
ChatGPT
ChatGPT was fed the Mason City district's book list in 2023 and asked whether each title depicted a sex act, a shortcut that made international news.
Q 02Which fairy tale did Sarah J. Maas reimagine with an assassin as its heroine to create Throne of Glass?
Cinderella
Cinderella sparked the idea when Maas watched the Disney film: the music as the heroine flees the ball felt so dark that she pictured an assassin escaping instead.
Q 03Killing which animal in the woods gets the huntress Feyre dragged off to the faerie realm of Prythian?
A wolf
A wolf falls to Feyre's arrow, but it was really a faerie sentry in disguise, so she must pay the life debt by leaving her family behind.
Q 04Which fairy tale, alongside the ballad Tam Lin, did Sarah J. Maas loosely retell in A Court of Thorns and Roses?
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast shaped the opening, in which a mortal girl is carried off to a cursed lord's estate, though the finished series is no strict retelling.
Q 05On which video app has the hashtag for Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses drawn several billion views?
TikTok
TikTok turned the series into a phenomenon among readers, and Maas's three fantasy series have sold more than 70 million copies in English.
Q 06Which Gotham antiheroine is the title character of Sarah J. Maas's DC Icons novel Soulstealer?
Catwoman
Catwoman gets an origin story in Soulstealer: Selina Kyle trains with the League of Assassins, then returns to Gotham posing as a wealthy socialite.
Q 07Which one-word answer to a riddle does Feyre finally give to break Tamlin's curse in A Court of Thorns and Roses?
Love
Love is the answer Feyre finds only while she is being tortured, after surviving three deadly trials. Solving the riddle frees Tamlin at once.
Q 08What can nobody at Tamlin's court take off when Feyre arrives, thanks to a decades-old magical blight?
Their masks
Their masks have been stuck to their faces for decades, and the so-called blight behind it turns out to be a deliberate curse on Tamlin's lands.
Q 09Vox crowned Sarah J. Maas the reigning queen of which book genre, a blend of two older ones?
Romantasy
Romantasy fuses fantasy with romance, and the success of Maas and Rebecca Yarros led publishers to launch whole imprints devoted to it.
Q 10Which streaming service optioned A Court of Thorns and Roses for television in 2021, then scrapped the project in 2025?
Hulu
Hulu announced the series in March 2021 with Maas herself as an executive producer, but no cast was ever named before the adaptation was dropped.
Q 11Tamlin, the faerie who takes Feyre across the wall to Prythian, is High Lord of which court?
Spring
Spring is Tamlin's court, though he hides his rank at first: Feyre learns that her captor is the High Lord himself only by trapping a truth-telling faerie.
Q 12Which lifelong dream, out of reach while her family was poor, does Feyre pursue at Tamlin's manor?
Painting
Painting was a luxury Feyre could not afford while she hunted to feed her family, so Tamlin sets her up with supplies and shows her his gallery.
Q 13Celaena Sardothien must defeat 23 rivals in Throne of Glass to win her freedom and which court title?
King's Champion
King's Champion is a polite name for the royal assassin: the winner must serve the very ruler who sent her to prison before she can go free.
Q 21Which battle-scarred Illyrian warrior ends up romantically paired with Nesta Archeron in A Court of Silver Flames?
Cassian
Cassian sparks Nesta's temper more than anyone, and it takes a formal bargain for a single hour of training before she starts to enjoy the work.
Q 22Which Captain of the Guard watches over the assassin Celaena Sardothien at the castle in Throne of Glass?
Chaol Westfall
Chaol Westfall starts out seeing only a captive criminal. Maas wrote him as a man who views the world in black and white until Celaena upends it.
Q 23Which full-blooded Fae warrior, over three centuries old, once served in Queen Maeve's elite cadre in Throne of Glass?
Rowan Whitethorn
Q 14In which brutal salt-mine prison camp has the assassin Celaena Sardothien spent a year when Throne of Glass opens?
Endovier
Endovier is a slave camp nobody was meant to survive, yet the kingdom's most feared assassin lasts a year there before the crown prince offers her a way out.
Q 15Under which true name is the assassin Celaena Sardothien revealed to be a lost royal heir in Throne of Glass?
Aelin Galathynius
Aelin Galathynius lost her parents to murder as a child and trained as an assassin under her alias. By the fourth book she embraces her real identity as a queen.
Q 16Which crown prince of Adarlan frees Celaena Sardothien from prison to compete on his behalf in Throne of Glass?
Dorian Havilliard
Dorian Havilliard is a bookworm who hates his father's murdering ways, which makes the heir to the throne an unlikely sponsor for a notorious assassin.
Q 17Which High Fae villainess holds Tamlin and his court captive Under the Mountain in A Court of Thorns and Roses?
Amarantha
Amarantha wears the eye and finger bone of a human who betrayed her sister as jewelry, and her curse is the so-called blight that Tamlin dreads.
Q 18Which Fallen angel is offered his freedom for helping Bryce Quinlan catch a killer in House of Earth and Blood?
Hunt Athalar
Hunt Athalar is enslaved to the Archangels he once tried to overthrow, and his brutal skills have been put to work killing his boss's enemies.
Q 19The Crescent City novels follow Bryce Quinlan on which planet, shared uneasily by humans, Fae, angels and shifters?
Midgard
Midgard is where Bryce is desperate to return in the third book, after she finds herself stranded in a strange world far from her family and friends.
Q 20Feyre is furious to discover in A Court of Mist and Fury that she and Rhysand have long shared which faerie tie?
A mating bond
A mating bond is a formal tie between faeries, and Rhysand had known of theirs for a long time without telling her. Feyre feels betrayed before they make peace.
Rowan Whitethorn was one of only six warriors in that cadre, an elite group that also included Lorcan, Gavriel and Fenrys.
Q 24The assassin Celaena Sardothien is eventually unmasked as the rightful queen of which kingdom in Throne of Glass?
Terrasen
Terrasen waits for its lost queen while its people are enslaved to a brutal king, and she must fight her way back before she can reclaim the throne.
Q 25Whose murder, along with her entire pack, sends Bryce Quinlan hunting for answers in House of Earth and Blood?
Danika Fendyr
Danika Fendyr was Bryce's roommate and best friend, a famously powerful shifter expected to lead her kind one day. Her buried secrets drive the mystery.
Q 26Being forced into which ancient magical vessel turns the human Nesta Archeron into High Fae against her will?
The Cauldron
The Cauldron leaves Nesta with powers nobody fully understands, and she spends A Court of Silver Flames struggling to find her place among the Fae.
Q 27In A Court of Thorns and Roses, the faerie king of which island realm threatens to invade Prythian?
Hybern
Hybern lies across the sea from Prythian and is home only to faeries. Its king wants to tear up an ancient treaty and enslave humans once more.
Q 28Which everyday skill does Feyre lack in A Court of Thorns and Roses, nearly dooming her in a riddle trial?
Reading
Reading is beyond Feyre when the story begins, so in the second trial Rhysand reaches into her mind and steers her to the correct answer.
Q 29On which book-rating site did users vote Sarah J. Maas's House of Sky and Breath the best fantasy novel of 2022?
Goodreads
Goodreads has featured Maas in its Choice Awards since Throne of Glass was nominated in 2012, and the 2022 win went to her second Crescent City novel.
Q 30Which publisher bought Sarah J. Maas's debut novel Throne of Glass in March 2010, then ordered two more books?
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury signed Maas after her story had already drawn a huge online following, and made it the first of its children's novels to be featured on NetGalley.