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After the success of her first book ("Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale"), Holly Black wrote two sequels to it, now known as the "Modern Faerie Tales Trilogy". She also collaborated with illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi in the series "The Spiderwick Chronicles".
4 Holly Black quizzes and 50 Holly Black trivia questions.
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  Curses of the Curse Workers    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
It's a closely guarded secret what type of (curse) worker that people are, but here we've got you covered. Questions relate to the full "Curse Workers" series by Holly Black - "White Cat", "Red Glove" and "Black Heart".
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  The Spiderwick Chronicles   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This series was actually a collaboration by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. The main characters are the twins Simon and Jared along with their sister Mallory Grace. Books 1 through 5 will be covered here.
Average, 10 Qns, myrab51, Mar 16 11
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  The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on the first book of "The Spiderwick Chronicles" by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi.
Average, 10 Qns, miss_magic10, May 15 21
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  Valiant    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
"Valiant, a Modern Faerie Tale" was written by Holly Black who also wrote "The Spiderwick Chronicles".
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trivia question Quick Question
What was the name of the girl who Simon said had ferrets that would steal her Barbie dolls?

From Quiz "The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide"




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Holly Black Trivia Questions
1. Although not officially part of the mob, he loves running a con. What type of worker is our protagonist, Cassel Sharpe?

From Quiz Curses of the Curse Workers

Answer: Transformation

Cassel spends the majority of his life thinking that he isn't a worker, having forgotten about the early signs of his Transformation work. As his family are all Curse Workers and work with the mob, this leads him to feel at odds with his family - as well as the fact that he has memories of committing a murder, and all he remembers feeling about it is glee.

2. What is the first name of Jared, Mallory, and Simon Grace's mother?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide

Answer: Helen

Whenever a character appears in the book for the first time, there is a picture of them with their name. Helen Grace is the fourth one introduced in the book.

3. In the prologue, who was the quote from?

From Quiz Valiant

Answer: Sara Teasdale

'For I shall learn from flower and leaf That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold'

4. Shortly after Simon, Jared, and Mallory move into the new home they find a secret compartment with a dumbwaiter. Where did it lead?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles

Answer: Arthur Spiderwick's hidden library

The compartment was found after Mallory knocked a large hole in the wall. The dumbwaiter led up into Arthur Spiderwick's library. Jared was the first one to go up. There Jared found "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You".

5. Although she begins the series in prison, she is later released and causes numerous troubles for our protagonist. What type of worker is Cassel's mother, Shandra Sharpe?

From Quiz Curses of the Curse Workers

Answer: Emotion

Shandra is an emotion worker, who frequently uses her abilities both to run cons and as a means of parenting her children when they were younger by forcing them to feel shame/regret or to force them to apologise for misdeeds. The blowback to her using her abilities causes her to be particularly emotionally unstable and as such she is often a very unpredictable character, acting on emotion.

6. What does Jared think the "thing" inside the wall is?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide

Answer: a squirrel

Jared's heart is beating fast. He starts to think "what if there is a bear in the basement or a bird in the heating ducts?"

7. Who is Valerie Russel's best friend?

From Quiz Valiant

Answer: Ruth

They had been friends for a very long time.

8. What happened to Mallory shortly after they discovered the compartment?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles

Answer: Her hair was tied to the headboard of her bed.

Most of these things actually happened to the animal loving Simon. Mallory did wake up the next morning to find that someone or something had tied her hair in several knots to the headboard. Her mom finally had to cut it to get her undone. They later found out it had been the house brownie who did it. They had destroyed his nest when they emptied out the dumbwaiter and he was angry. He started carrying out all sorts of trouble that Jared was blamed for.

9. What is knotted to Mallory's brass headboard?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide

Answer: her hair

For a while she screams "Just chop it!" so she won't have to experience the pain of having her hair untied. She and her mother think it was Jared who did this.

10. What was the reason Val ran away from home?

From Quiz Valiant

Answer: she caught her boyfriend kissing her mother

He was late for their date so Val went home and found them together on the couch.

11. Simon is abducted by goblins. Mallory and Jared go to rescue him. Jared meets a hobgoblin, Hogsqueal, who gives him 'The Sight' or the ability to see faeries without using a seeing stone. How does he do this?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles

Answer: Hogsqueal spit on a handkerchief for Jared to rub in his eye.

Hogsqueal spit right in Jared's eye. Jared was pretty grossed out, but then he realized he could see all the goblins below him without the stone. Hogsqueal also eventually gave 'The Sight' to Simon and Mallory as well.

12. Cassel has two brothers, the oldest of which is Philip. What kind of worker is Philip?

From Quiz Curses of the Curse Workers

Answer: Physical

Another mob enforcer of the family, Philip's job involves breaking bones of those who have angered the mob. He has a troubled marriage. Cassel feels that Philip hasn't really looked him in the eye for three years which he presumes is due to the incident where he murdered Lila. Since Lila wasn't actually murdered, it is most likely to be due to this cover-up as well as the continual use of Cassel as an unwilling assassin following this.

13. What did Simon say Aunt Lucinda was?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide

Answer: old and crazy

He and Mallory start talking about this when they are outside getting their suitcases. Mallory claims that she is starving herself to death and that she thinks little men bring her food. It is better than anything that she has ever tasted.

14. What was Lolli wearing when Val first saw her?

From Quiz Valiant

Answer: white boots and a rabbit fur coat

Lolli also had blue hair.

15. After being rescued from the goblins, Simon went back and made a rescue of his own. What did Simon bring home with him and nurse back to health?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles

Answer: a griffin

Simon had a very big heart when it came to animals. He couldn't stand the thought of leaving any behind so he went back to let them go free. The griffin had been seriously injured and left for dead. Even though the others thought it would try to attack him, Simon freed it and brought it home. He nursed it back to health in their carriage house.

16. Despite Cassel thinking otherwise for a long period of his life, what type of worker is his other brother, Barron, really?

From Quiz Curses of the Curse Workers

Answer: Memory

For many years, Cassel thought that Barron was a luck worker. In actuality, he was a memory worker who was actively altering Cassel's memories to ensure his cooperation. Cassel initially thinks that Barron is a compulsive liar, but actually the blowback from his extensive memory work is eating away at Barron's memories, which he tries to counter by keeping notebooks to remind himself of anything that he may forget. Cassel's status as an unreliable narrator is largely caused by Barron and his memory work.

17. What is the first thing written in the dust (in the book)?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide

Answer: Click clack, watch your back

Jared jumps up and his candle goes out. He now sees that it's not a squirrel.

18. Where do Lolli, Dave and Luis live?

From Quiz Valiant

Answer: underground subway platform

Lolli and Dave took Val there. They had old mattresses and a couch for a bed.

19. After deciding they need more help, Jared, Simon, and Mallory decided to turn to their great-aunt, Lucinda. Where was Lucinda throughout most of the series?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles

Answer: a mental hospital

She was put away in a mental hospital. She had been attacked by goblins and injured. No one around her could see or believe in goblins. They thought that she had been hurting herself and had her admitted to protect her.

20. As well as being the daughter of a mob boss, Lila Zacharov has a very complicated relationship to our protagonist, Cassel. What type of worker is she?

From Quiz Curses of the Curse Workers

Answer: Dream

Despite having been transformed into a white cat, Lila is still able to use her dream working skills to lure people to sleepwalk from their beds at night, as well as cause dreams and nightmares. When we first meet her in the books, she has caused Cassel to sleepwalk onto the roof, leading his school to believe that he may have been trying to commit suicide. Cassel, who has memories of killing Lila, is oblivious to her continued existence.

21. Who was the first faerie Val saw?

From Quiz Valiant

Answer: the man selling incense

She saw him in West Third selling bundles of incense at a table. She hadn't realized that he was faerie at the time.

22. After gaining some new information from Aunt Lucinda, the trio set off to look for more answers. They were captured by elves. What was it they learned the evil ogre Mulgarath was seeking?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles

Answer: Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide

Mulgarath was seeking the field guide. It had information on all of the faerie races. Mulgarath realized it would give him advantages over the other faeries and knew it would gain him power. He would stop at nothing to get the guide. The elves also disclosed that they were keeping an ageless Arthur Spiderwick captive.

23. Cassel's room-mate and eventual friend, he comes to be drawn more and more into Cassel's life. What type of worker is Sam Yu?

From Quiz Curses of the Curse Workers

Answer: He isn't a worker

Sam isn't a worker at all. He is the first person that Cassel actively chooses to reveal his dangerous secret to, as he does actually trust Sam, although he can't help seeing him as a mark at times due to his upbringing. Sam looks after Cassel's betting operation following the sleepwalking incident at the beginning of "White Cat" that leads to Cassel needing proof that he is safe to sleep at school and won't sleepwalk onto the roof again.

24. How did Simon get his pet mice?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide

Answer: He rescued them from a trap in Mrs.Levette's downstairs apartment

Simon actually wasn't allowed to bring the mice, but their mother pretended not to that notice he had brought them anyway.

25. Why did Val want to go through the troll tunnel?

From Quiz Valiant

Answer: to prove to herself faeries were real

Lolli had told her about the troll and that Luis worked for him as repayment.

26. After a fencing competition, Mallory goes missing. The boys figure out she had been taken into the rock quarries by the dwarves. What condition is she in when they find her?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles

Answer: She is sleeping in a glass case, Snow White style.

The dwarves had dressed Mallory in medieval clothing, done her makeup, braided her hair and put her into an immortal sleep. They made her like a work of art. She was locked into a glass case to sleep until the boys traded her for the field guide. If they refused, she was to stay there forever.

27. An outspoken advocate for worker rights, Daneca Wasserman ends up befriending Sam and later Cassel. What type of worker is she?

From Quiz Curses of the Curse Workers

Answer: Emotion

The daughter of a prominent advocate for worker rights, Daneca believes strongly in worker rights, but she's also adamant that she isn't a worker and outspoken about how emotion workers are dangerous. She is actually an emotion worker herself who does not like to use her powers. Sam feels deeply betrayed by the fact that she kept hiding that she was an emotion worker from him.

28. What are the names of Simon's mice?

From Quiz The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide

Answer: Jeffery and Lemondrop

Simon is very protective of his mice.

29. How long did Val have to serve the troll for?

From Quiz Valiant

Answer: one month

It was one week of servitude for each stolen item.

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