A Curse for True Love Quiz: 20 Questions to Test Your Memory

Quiz Questions

Plot and Sequence (8 questions)

Chapter 1: When Evangeline first wakes up, who claims to be her husband and shows a tattoo of her name?
A) Prince Apollo
B) Lord Jacks
C) Kristof Knightlinger
D) Lord Byron Belleflower
Chapter 10: Who rescues Evangeline from the Well of Wishes after she is pushed in?
A) Prince Apollo
B) A golden-haired stranger
C) Lord Jacks
D) Madame Voss
Chapter 30: What object triggers Evangeline’s full memory restoration?
A) A glass cuff
B) A letter she wrote to herself
C) A wanted poster of Jacks
D) A picture book of her and Apollo
Chapter 40: What does LaLa reveal she planted in the Magnificent North?
A) A phoenix tree
B) A Tree of Souls
C) A vine-covered arch
D) A cursed rose bush
Chapter 46-48: After Apollo drinks the blood of the Tree of Souls, what happens to him?
A) He becomes immortal and godlike
B) He is pulled into the tree and trapped
C) He loses all his memories
D) He turns into a tree himself
Sequence: Place these events in the correct chronological order:
- a) Evangeline kills Petra
- b) Apollo erases Evangeline’s memories
- c) Evangeline kisses Jacks at the phoenix tree
- d) Jacks trades his second heart for a glass cuff
Short answer: Write the letters in order (e.g., abcd).
Chapter 35: What does Wolfric Valor warn Apollo will happen if he drinks from the Tree of Souls?
A) He will lose his crown
B) The life of his greatest love will be sacrificed
C) He will become a vampire
D) The tree will curse his bloodline
Chapter 48: Who is actually the person Apollo loves most, causing the tree to take him?
A) Evangeline
B) Himself
C) Jacks
D) Aurora

Character Motivation (5 questions)

Why does Prince Apollo erase Evangeline’s memories?
A) To punish her for choosing Jacks
B) To protect her from Jacks and from painful truths
C) To make her love him again
D) To prevent her from opening the Valory Arch
Why does Jacks tie Evangeline to him with a rope in the Cursed Forest (Chapter 27)?
A) To force her to remember their past
B) To keep her safe from the vampire Castor
C) To prevent her from running to Apollo
D) To test her loyalty
What is Aurora’s primary motive for placing the Archer’s curse and the fatal kiss curse on Jacks?
A) She wants to become queen of the Magnificent North
B) She is jealous and wants to prevent Jacks from loving anyone else
C) She wants revenge on Jacks for rejecting her
D) She is under the control of the story curse
Why does Apollo order the guards to push Evangeline into the well (Chapter 13)?
A) To teach her a lesson about danger
B) To frame Jacks for an attack
C) To test the loyalty of his guards
D) To make her depend on him
Why does Jacks reverse time after Evangeline dies opening the Valory Arch?
A) To save Donatella
B) To prevent Evangeline from dying and to erase their story
C) To gain control of the Valory stones
D) To punish Apollo

Theme and Symbol (4 questions)

What does the phoenix tree symbolize throughout the novel?
A) Eternal life and resurrection
B) The danger of forbidden love
C) The destruction of memories
D) The power of wishes
The broken-heart scar on Evangeline’s wrist represents her connection to Jacks. In the context of the story, what does it primarily signify?
A) A mark of ownership
B) A debt of love and a magical bond
C) A curse that cannot be broken
D) A reminder of her lost memories
The “story curse” in the Magnificent North twists the truth of spells and events. What theme does this curse most directly support?
A) The unreliability of narratives and the power of belief
B) The inevitability of tragedy
C) The importance of written history
D) The weakness of magic
In the epilogue, the story curse says it dislikes the cavern and the tree. What does this reveal about the curse’s nature?
A) It prefers happy endings and dislikes painful stories
B) It is afraid of trees
C) It wants to control all stories
D) It is bored by romances

Synthesis (3 questions)

Compare and contrast: How does Apollo’s view of love (as possessive and controlling) contrast with Jacks’s view (as self-sacrificing and fearful)? Provide one example from the book for each.
Short answer: Write your response in 2-3 sentences.
Thematic question: The novel suggests that “love is more powerful than fear.” Using evidence from Evangeline’s final choice at the phoenix tree (Chapter 41), explain how this theme is resolved.
Short answer: Write your response in 2-3 sentences.
Personal reflection: If you were Evangeline, would you have trusted Apollo’s version of events after losing your memory? Why or why not? Relate your answer to one specific event in the book.
Short answer: Write your response in 2-3 sentences.

Answer Key

Answer: A) Prince Apollo
Explanation: In Chapter 1, Apollo reveals himself as a prince and shows a tattoo of Evangeline’s name.
Answer: B) A golden-haired stranger
Explanation: In Chapter 10, a golden-haired stranger lowers the bucket and rescues her. (Later revealed to be Jacks in disguise.)
Answer: B) A letter she wrote to herself
Explanation: In Chapter 29, Evangeline finds a letter in Jacks’s doublet and reading it triggers her full memory (Chapter 30).
Answer: A) A phoenix tree
Explanation: In Chapter 40, LaLa admits she planted the phoenix tree when she once wanted to destroy her own heart.
Answer: B) He is pulled into the tree and trapped
Explanation: In Chapter 48, after drinking the tree’s blood, Apollo is seized by roots and branches and becomes part of the tree.
Answer: a, d, b, c
Explanation: Evangeline kills Petra (before memory loss). Jacks trades his heart for the cuff (before the events of the book). Apollo erases memories (after she chooses Jacks). She kisses Jacks at the phoenix tree near the end.
Answer: B) The life of his greatest love will be sacrificed
Explanation: In Chapter 35, Wolfric explains that drinking from the tree sacrifices the life of the drinker’s greatest love.
Answer: B) Himself
Explanation: Apollo loves himself most, so the tree takes his life instead of Evangeline’s (Chapter 48).
Answer: B) To protect her from Jacks and from painful truths
Explanation: In Chapter 4, Apollo admits he erased her memories to protect her from Jacks, believing forgetting is mercy.
Answer: B) To keep her safe from the vampire Castor
Explanation: In Chapter 27, Jacks ties her to him so they can flee together before Castor revives.
Answer: B) She is jealous and wants to prevent Jacks from loving anyone else
Explanation: In Chapter 38, Aurora’s spell book reveals she learned Jacks would fall in love with a “fox” and placed curses to prevent it.
Answer: A) To teach her a lesson about danger
Explanation: In Chapter 13, Apollo reveals he orchestrated the well attack to teach Evangeline that the world is dangerous.
Answer: B) To prevent Evangeline from dying and to erase their story
Explanation: In Chapter 26, Jacks uses the Valory stones to reverse time after Evangeline dies, erasing her memories of him.
Answer: A) Eternal life and resurrection
Explanation: The phoenix tree’s leaves turn gold over a thousand years and it can burst into flame and regrow, symbolizing rebirth.
Answer: B) A debt of love and a magical bond
Explanation: Apollo and Garrick explain the scar marks a debt to Jacks (Chapter 7), and it also allows blood tracking.
Answer: A) The unreliability of narratives and the power of belief
Explanation: The story curse twists spells, so what people believe can become true. This underscores the theme that truth is not fixed.
Answer: A) It prefers happy endings and dislikes painful stories
Explanation: The epilogue shows the curse is glad the couple walks toward a happy ending and stops watching to leave them alone.
Sample answer: Apollo’s love is possessive and controlling—he erases Evangeline’s memories and locks her in the castle (Chapters 4, 7). Jacks’s love is self-sacrificing—he reverses time to save Evangeline even though it means erasing their story (Chapter 26). Both are flawed, but Jacks ultimately lets go of control.
Sample answer: Evangeline chooses to kiss Jacks despite knowing it could kill her (Chapter 41). She says love is the ultimate form of hope. Aurora’s curse says only a girl who never loves Jacks can survive, but Evangeline’s true love overrides the fatal kiss—she stops breathing but revives, proving love’s power over fear.
Sample answer: Answers will vary. Example: I would not have trusted Apollo, because he confined Evangeline to the castle and refused to let her seek her memories. The moment he admits he pushed her into the well (Chapter 13) shows he is manipulative.