Can't Get Enough Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Book?

Take this 20‑question quiz to test your understanding of Can't Get Enough, Kennedy Ryan’s 2025 romance. Questions cover plot events, character motivations, symbols, and broader themes. Choose the best answer for multiple‑choice items or write a short answer where indicated. The complete answer key and explanations follow all questions.

Quiz Questions

Plot and Sequence (Questions 1–8)

Multiple choice: What Christmas Eve crisis forces Hendrix to return to her childhood home?
- A. Her aunt Geneva announces she is moving away.
- B. Her mother’s caretaker died and her mother is missing.
- C. The family bakery must be sold.
- D. Hendrix loses her job in Atlanta.
Multiple choice: Where does Hendrix first meet Maverick Bell?
- A. At a Vipers playoff game.
- B. On the set of Lewks.
- C. At Zere’s All‑White Party in Miami.
- D. During an Aspire Fund showcase.
Multiple choice: What does Zere want from Maverick that becomes the breaking point in their relationship?
- A. A larger share of his business.
- B. A promise he will never date a friend of hers.
- C. Marriage and a baby.
- D. Joint ownership of the Miami house.
Short answer: What ruling does the judge make in the Aspire Fund courtroom hearing?
Short answer: Name the owner of the Vegas Vipers who is later revealed to fund the lawsuit against Aspire.
Multiple choice: What sacrifice does Maverick ultimately make to stand with Hendrix?
- A. He sells his Malibu estate.
- B. He withdraws his bid to buy the Vegas Vipers.
- C. He publicly resigns from his board seats.
- D. He transfers the Aspire Fund to another state.
Multiple choice: What medical crisis strikes Hendrix’s mother after the salt‑and‑baking‑soda mix‑up?
- A. A severe allergic reaction.
- B. A broken hip from a fall.
- C. A hypertensive crisis that leaves her unconscious.
- D. A stroke that affects her speech.
Short answer: What practical steps do Hendrix’s friends take to make her mother’s home safer while Hendrix is caregiving?

Character Motivation (Questions 9–13)

Multiple choice: Why does Maverick refuse Zere’s request for a baby?
- A. He does not think Zere would be a good mother.
- B. He already has a daughter about to graduate and does not want to start over.
- C. He is physically unable to have children.
- D. He plans to adopt later.
Short answer: What professional and personal loyalties make Hendrix initially resist her attraction to Maverick?
Short answer: What motivates Maverick to walk away from the Vipers acquisition?
Short answer: In Chapter 43, Hendrix’s mother admits she sometimes wishes for death. What fear drives that admission?
Multiple choice: Why does Maverick gift Hendrix a diamond unicorn ankle charm?

A. He wants to distract her from the lawsuit.
B. He hopes she will decorate the Malibu house.
C. To symbolize her billion‑dollar ambition and keep the dream in front of her.
D. Because the charm was his mother’s favorite piece of jewelry.

Theme and Symbol (Questions 14–17)

Short answer: What do Maverick’s repeat deliveries of champagne roses symbolize in the story?
Short answer: What does the neglected garden represent for Hendrix’s mother, Betty?
Multiple choice: The epigraph from Mary McLeod Bethune immediately introduces which central theme?

A. The pain of losing a parent to dementia.
B. Female self‑determination and creating one’s own destiny.
C. The value of financial independence over romance.
D. The importance of religious faith.

Short answer: How does the Miles Davis jazz piece “Blue in Green” function symbolically in Maverick and Hendrix’s relationship?

Synthesis (Questions 18–20)

Short answer: How does Hendrix’s caregiving for her mother parallel Maverick’s experience with his grandfather, and why does that shared history matter to their bond?
Short answer: In her Author’s Note, Kennedy Ryan draws a line between the fictional Aspire lawsuit and real‑world events. Briefly explain that connection.
Short answer: In what way does Hendrix’s personal growth align with her decision to fully embrace a relationship with Maverick?

Answer Key

B – The prologue shows Hendrix learning that her mother’s caretaker Catherine died weeks earlier and that her mother, who has Alzheimer’s, has been found wandering. This crisis brings Hendrix home.
C – Hendrix attends the exclusive All‑White Party in Miami with her client Chapel, where she first encounters Maverick.
C – Chapter 2 reveals that Zere wanted marriage and a baby, but Maverick, with a daughter about to graduate, refused to start over.
The judge suspends the Aspire Fund grant program for the duration of the lawsuit brought by Citizens for Equality.
Andrew Carverson, the current majority owner of the Vegas Vipers, is exposed as the financier behind the lawsuit.
B – In Chapter 53, Maverick ends his pursuit of the Vipers once he learns Carverson is behind the legal attack on Hendrix’s fund.
C – After the recipe mistake, Betty suffers chest pain, a severe headache, and vomiting; she collapses from a hypertensive crisis and is rushed to the hospital.
They declutter the house, label drawers, and install aids to help Betty navigate daily life more safely as her dementia progresses.
B – Maverick tells Zere he has no desire to start over with a new baby when Tamia is nearly grown; this core incompatibility ends their relationship.
Hendrix is loyal to Zere, her professional partner on Chapel’s show, and fears that dating Zere’s ex will destroy that working relationship. She also wants to protect her own integrity and avoid accusations of betrayal.
Maverick feels betrayed when he learns that Carverson, the man selling the Vipers, is funding the Citizens for Equality lawsuit against Hendrix’s Aspire Fund. He decides that people he loves, and the equity Hendrix fights for, mean more than the franchise.
Betty is terrified by the experience of waking up disoriented from Alzheimer’s, not knowing where she is or who is with her, and she says the fear sometimes makes her wish for death.
C – During their yacht date, Maverick gives Hendrix the unicorn charm as a tangible symbol of her aspiration to create a billion‑dollar company, not as a distraction or family heirloom.
The champagne roses represent Maverick’s deliberate, persistent romantic pursuit and his understanding of Hendrix as someone worth cherishing. They become a motif of his affection and commitment.
The garden symbolizes the love her late husband planted in their life together, as well as Betty’s own vitality before Alzheimer’s took hold. Its overgrown state mirrors her grief and fading memories.
B – The Bethune quotation, “A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny,” foregrounds autonomy and self‑definition as key ideas for Hendrix’s journey.
“Blue in Green” serves as the unspoken vocabulary of love. As Maverick and Hendrix dance to it on the yacht, the song carries the “I love you” he cannot yet say aloud, embedding their emotions in music rather than words.
Both have watched a beloved family member decline from Alzheimer’s—Maverick with his grandfather, Hendrix with her mother. This shared trauma creates immediate empathy; Maverick understands the weight Hendrix carries, and that mutual understanding deepens their emotional intimacy from their first long conversation.
Ryan’s note connects the Aspire legal battle to the real‑life challenge against the Fearless Fund and the broader rollback of affirmative action. She uses the lawsuit to dramatize how programs supporting Black women entrepreneurs face systemic attacks.
Hendrix initially guards her independence fiercely, but over the course of the novel she learns that accepting help—from Maverick, from her friends—does not weaken her ambition. Choosing Maverick becomes an act of choosing herself, because their partnership honors her dreams instead of demanding she choose between love and career.