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Writing mostly for a young adult audience, her first work was the "Gemma Doyle Trilogy" ("A Great and Terrible Beauty", "Rebel Angels" and "The Sweet Far Thing").
6 Libba Bray quizzes and 65 Libba Bray trivia questions.
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  The "Gemma Doyle" Party    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
I'm hosting a party and inviting the characters from Libba Bray's "Gemma Doyle" trilogy, which consists of the books "A Great and Terrible Beauty," "Rebel Angels" and "The Sweet Far Thing." I see that you brought your invitation; you may enter.
Average, 15 Qns, Caseena, May 06 10
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Caseena
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  With His Host of Rebel Angels    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz about "Rebel Angels" by Libba Bray, the sequel to "A Great and Terrible Beauty".
Average, 10 Qns, miss_lady, Apr 30 07
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  Rebel Angels    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is on the absolutely enchanting sequel to Libba Bray's best-seller "A Great and Terrible Beauty". It is "Rebel Angels" and is wonderful!
Average, 10 Qns, booklover123, Sep 06 08
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booklover123
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  A Great and Terrible Beauty Quiz Challenge    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on the book "A Great and Terrible Beauty" by Libba Bray. It really is an amazing book and I hope you'll like the quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, booklover123, May 25 11
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booklover123
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  "A Great And Terrible Beauty", By Libba Bray    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is one of my favorite books; it tells the story of a girl named Gemma and her mysterious powers!
Average, 10 Qns, maj_07, Jun 19 08
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  A Great and Terrible Beauty Quiz for Experts    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I really enjoyed reading the book "A Great and Terrible Beauty" by Libba Bray, and I hope you enjoy taking this quiz!
Average, 10 Qns, little-kat, May 13 10
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trivia question Quick Question
What does Pippa give the knight as a token?

From Quiz ""A Great And Terrible Beauty", By Libba Bray"




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Libba Bray Trivia Questions
1. What is Gemma's brother's name?

From Quiz A Great and Terrible Beauty

Answer: Tom & Thomas

Tom is her older brother who later joins the Rakshana.

2. Where do Felicity, Ann, and Gemma go every Wednesday?

From Quiz With His Host of Rebel Angels

Answer: To visit Pippa

The East Wing is a burned unused area of Spence Academy. The girls' class went to observe cave drawings in 'A Great and Terrible Beauty'. The rose garden is available to anyone who wishes to go there in their free time.

3. Whose house were Gemma and her mother going to tea at, in the beginning?

From Quiz "A Great And Terrible Beauty", By Libba Bray

Answer: Mrs. Talbot

Gemma and her mother are going to Mrs. Talbot's house for cake because it is Gemma's birthday. However, a man comes and tells her mother that Circe is near and then she tells Gemma to go home.

4. Who, at the end of the novel, thinks Ann is a horrible girl for deceiving him?

From Quiz Rebel Angels

Answer: Thomas Doyle & Tom Doyle & Tom & Doyle

Tom has been looking for a wealthy woman and Ann has supposedly come into some money from a relation. Ann has been liking him, so obviously when he asks her to the dance, she is excited. Eventually, though, the truth is released and he is very unhappy with her.

5. Gemma's mother has both the name that Gemma has known her by and her real name. What are they?

From Quiz A Great and Terrible Beauty

Answer: Virginia Doyle and Mary Dowd

Gemma finds out after her mother dies and she visits her in the realms that she was Mary Dowd, the girl from the order, and that she was friends with Circe.

6. What did the crescent moon on Gemma's necklace represent?

From Quiz A Great and Terrible Beauty

Answer: The Order

Felicity, Pippa, Ann, and Gemma used it to cut themselves to make a pact.

7. Kartik gives a warning to Gemma. Where does he deliver his message?

From Quiz With His Host of Rebel Angels

Answer: In the woods near Spence

Kartik is very good at not being seen. He whisks Gemma away behind a tree in the forest, while she was having a snowball fight with Ann.

8. What book does Ann refer to, often?

From Quiz "A Great And Terrible Beauty", By Libba Bray

Answer: The Perils Of Lucy

When Ann and Gemma are leaving to go to breakfast Ann says that she hopes there are strawberries because she read in 'Perils of Lucy' that they are good for your complexion.

9. Simon gives Gemma three gifts. What is one of them?

From Quiz Rebel Angels

Answer: a necklace with amethysts

He first gave her a box with a false bottom, then a necklace with amethysts, and then a brooch with pearls that was worn by all the women in his family. His sister would have worn it, but he didn't have a sister, so he gave it to Gemma.

10. What is the name of the girl who Gemma has to room with at the boarding school?

From Quiz A Great and Terrible Beauty

Answer: Ann

Cecily was the girl who Gemma never came to like. Pippa became Gemma's friend soon after they created their own order. Felicity became a very close friend of Gemma's soon after her arrival (after she was very unkind to her at the beginning). Ann was the first girl Gemma met and though she was not wealthy and was an orphan, they became friends as well.

11. More guests have started to arrive. Gemma is now looking for Kartik, the boy she loves. She meets in him the first book when she lives in another country. Where does she live before she moves to England?

From Quiz The "Gemma Doyle" Party

Answer: India

She and her family live in India for many years because Gemma's mother does not want the Order to find her and her daughter. After the mother's suicide, Gemma and her family move back to England, where Gemma attends finishing school.

12. Gemma is told to bind the magic "in the name of the Eastern Star". What will that do to the magic?

From Quiz With His Host of Rebel Angels

Answer: Give it to the Rakshana

Kartik asks one the Brothers of the Rakshana if the words would give them the power of the realms. The brother replies, "It will give us our due."

13. When Gemma, Ann, and Felicity go to the gypsies, what does Gemma have to do to save herself and her friends from the men, but really enjoys?

From Quiz A Great and Terrible Beauty

Answer: kiss Kartik

The men were all grabbing for her and so she had to kiss Kartik. She ended up really enjoying it and she found herself not wanting it to end ever.

14. Felicity is delighted that the one she loves is in attendance at this party. Whom is Felicity in love with?

From Quiz The "Gemma Doyle" Party

Answer: Pippa

We discover this in "The Sweet Far Thing" when the two girls kiss. Pippa's death hits Felicity so hard because Felicity thinks that she can never love again. However, she says near the end of the trilogy that she's going to live in Paris, where she hears that there are other women like her, so she won't give up hope.

15. What did Sarah Rees-Tome become?

From Quiz A Great and Terrible Beauty

Answer: Circe

She became Circe because she was hungry for the magic of the realms.

16. What type of preserves does Gemma 'accidentally' splatter on Cecily?

From Quiz With His Host of Rebel Angels

Answer: raspberry

Because she criticized Miss Moore, Gemma splattered raspberry preserves from Cecily's plate onto her dress, which would result in Cecily losing good conduct marks.

17. What is Madame Romanoff's real name?

From Quiz "A Great And Terrible Beauty", By Libba Bray

Answer: Sally Carny

When Gemma takes Madame Romanoff into the realms with her, she asks her what her name is.

18. How many times does Gemma try to heal her father with magic?

From Quiz Rebel Angels

Answer: 1

Only once does she try to heal him with magic. The second time she uses magic, she does it to help him find courage.

19. When the four girls make an order, at the end of their first meeting they do something to make a pact. What do they do?

From Quiz A Great and Terrible Beauty

Answer: They use Gemma's amulet to cut themselves

They do drink a lot of whiskey, but that was throughout the whole time. Going to the realms is not making a pact, and Pippa had a seizure while they were dancing. They used Gemma's amulet to cut themselves.

20. Mr. Bumble brings Pippa what kind of flower on their date?

From Quiz "A Great And Terrible Beauty", By Libba Bray

Answer: Carnations

Pippa says that her brought her red carnations, which mean admiration, as she destroys each flower.

21. Who does Gemma always think is Circe?

From Quiz Rebel Angels

Answer: Miss McCleethy

She always had her suspicions about Miss McCleethy being Circe and when they find that her name is an anagram for 'Circe they call me', she is certain. Later, though, she finds out that her name was a decoy and Miss Moore was Circe.

22. Pippa was going to have to marry an old man. How does she get out of it?

From Quiz A Great and Terrible Beauty

Answer: deciding to go to the other realm forever

She did tell him the truth about her ailment, her seizures, but that did not get her out of the marriage. She did die, but she did not kill herself. When she could have been saved, she decided to go the other realm and stay.

23. Who does Spence's art teacher claim to be?

From Quiz A Great and Terrible Beauty

Answer: Hester

Mrs. Hester Moore claims to be an art teacher, but really it is a made up name; an anagram for Sarah Rees-Tome.

24. What type of creature is the bow of the boat in the realms in the shape of?

From Quiz With His Host of Rebel Angels

Answer: Gorgon

The Gorgon head is bound by a spell to tell the truth and do no harm.

25. What food does Pippa eat too much of, that is making her corset too tight?

From Quiz "A Great And Terrible Beauty", By Libba Bray

Answer: toffee

When her parents are coming for assembly day they tell her that they have a surprise for her and she hopes that it is a new corset because this one is too tight.

26. Kartik is a member of what group?

From Quiz Rebel Angels

Answer: Rakshana & The Rakshana

Kartik has been assigned to find the temple, though only through Gemma can he do this. She is later told that after finding the temple he was supposed to kill her, but he betrays the Rakshana to help Gemma.

27. Gemma finds herself really jealous when what happens?

From Quiz A Great and Terrible Beauty

Answer: When Kartik looks at Pippa

When Kartik looks at Pippa she finds herself very angry because she secretly likes him and she wants his attention to herself.

28. There are all kinds of guests at this party, both living and dead. Pippa and her friends are here as spirits. How did Mae, Bessie, Wendy, and Mercy die?

From Quiz The "Gemma Doyle" Party

Answer: Factory fire

They burned to death because they were unable to get out of the factory as it burned. Even in death, they are covered with burns.

29. What is the disease that Pippa has that she reveals in hopes that she won't have to get married?

From Quiz A Great and Terrible Beauty

Answer: epilepsy

It causes seizures, and Pippa told Mr. Bumble in hopes that she wouldn't have to marry him.

30. Where does Gemma see Miss Moore?

From Quiz With His Host of Rebel Angels

Answer: On a London street

Tom forgot to get Grandmother's cake after he picked Gemma up from the train station. While riding through the city to the bakery, Gemma calls to her from out the carriage window.

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