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As well as "The Wayfarer Redemption" series (originally published in Australia as two separate trilogies) of fantasy novels set in the world of Tencendor and Escator, Sara Douglass wrote two historical fantasy series, "The Crucible" and "The Troy Game".
5 Sara Douglass quizzes and 60 Sara Douglass trivia questions.
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  The Troy Game Series    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This quiz covers all four books in the Troy Game series: "Hades' Daughter", "Gods' Concubine", "Darkwitch Rising", "Druid's Sword". **Spoilers if you haven't read all four**
Average, 15 Qns, sally4horses, Aug 02 06
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  Past Lives from "The Troy Game"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is about the character reincarnations in "Hades' Daughter" and "Gods' Concubine" from "The Troy Game" series by Sara Douglass.
Average, 10 Qns, sally4horses, Dec 21 05
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  The Troy Game    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
These books were written by Sara Douglass. I have been reading these books and have loved them. So here is a quiz about the first two, "Hades' Daughter" and "God's Concubine".
Average, 10 Qns, bookworm7, Dec 21 05
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  Threshold    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is another Sara Douglass book. It is one of her stand-alone novels. I loved it just as much as the "Troy Game" series.
Average, 10 Qns, bookworm7, Dec 21 05
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  The Troy Game Quiz for Experts    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
How much do you remember about how the characters are related between "Hades' Daughter", "Gods' Concubine" and "Darkwitch Rising" by Sara Douglass?
Average, 15 Qns, sally4horses, Jan 10 06
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trivia question Quick Question
Who would Catling's parents have been if she had been born the first time?

From Quiz "The Troy Game Series"




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Sara Douglass Trivia Questions
1. Which name has Cornelia never been called by?

From Quiz The Troy Game Series

Answer: Jane

Caela was her name in her second life, and Noah in her third. Eaving was her goddess name. Jane is Genvissa's third name.

2. Brutus and Cornelia are married in "Hades' Daughter" but how are William and Caela related in "Gods' Concubine"?

From Quiz The Troy Game

Answer: They meet near the end of the book

William and Caela meet near the end of the book and Caela realizes that Matilda is a better wife for him than she ever was. William has learned many things about marriage by this time.

3. Who is Brutus reincarnated as in "Gods' Concubine"?

From Quiz Past Lives from "The Troy Game"

Answer: William, Duke of Normandy

Brutus, Prince of Troy in "Hades' Daughter", comes back as William, Duke of Normandy in "Gods' Concubine." As Brutus he was married to Cornelia but as William he is married to Matilda.

4. What were Boaz's parent's names?

From Quiz Threshold

Answer: Avaldamon and Tirzah

Avaldamon was a Cantomancer who seduced Tirzah with tales from the book of the Soulenai.

5. Who was Cornelia reincarnated as in 'God's Concubine'?

From Quiz The Troy Game

Answer: Caela

In the first novel, 'Hades' Daughter', Cornelia was a spoilt brat who was forced to be the wife of the Trojan, Brutus. Eventually she is chosen by Mother Mag, the goddess of Langarlia, to be her successor. The reincarnation was Genvissa's fault. But that is another story.

6. What is never a name of Jack?

From Quiz The Troy Game Series

Answer: Charles

Brutus was his first name, William his second, and Louis his third. Charles was never his name even though we are made to believe it in the first part of "Darkwitch Rising".

7. Cornelia has an affair with Coel in "Hades' Daughter" but what is their relationship in "Gods' Concubine"?

From Quiz The Troy Game

Answer: sister/brother

Cornelia comes to love Coel in "Hades' Daughter" but they are tortured in "Gods' Concubine" because they are reborn as brother and sister but still love each other in a different way.

8. Who was Caela in her earlier life?

From Quiz Past Lives from "The Troy Game"

Answer: Cornelia

Cornelia, Brutus' wife in "Hades' Daughter" is reincarnated as Caela, Harold's sister, Edward's wife and Queen of England in "Gods' Concubine".

9. What was Tirzah's (the slave girl) name before Boaz changed it?

From Quiz Threshold

Answer: Ysgrave

Boaz often makes a comment that Ysgrave was an ugly name. He changed it to Tirzah because to prove that she could cage glass, Ysgrave carved a goblet of frogs for him.

10. What is the Caroler of Faerie's name in "Darkwitch Rising"?

From Quiz The Troy Game Series

Answer: Jane

Even though these are all the same person Genvissa and Swanne never hold the title of Caroler of Faerie. Stella is the name she uses in "Druid's Sword".

11. Who is Genvissa/Swanne trying to take Brutus/William from?

From Quiz The Troy Game

Answer: Cornelia/Matilda

Genvissa succeeds in taking Brutus from Cornelia but Matilda always thwarts Swanne from taking William.

12. Who is Coel in his second life?

From Quiz Past Lives from "The Troy Game"

Answer: Harold, Earl of Wessex

Coel, who loved Cornelia in "Hades' Daughter" comes back as Harold, Caela (Cornelia)'s brother in Gods' Concubine."

13. How did Cornelia's father die?

From Quiz The Troy Game

Answer: He is swallowed by the city

When the darkness inside the labyrinth is released, it begins attacking everyone in the city except the Trojans. Cornelia is not a Trojan, however, by this point she is carrying the Trojan Brutus' child, allowing her to escape. She sees her father being swallowed into the walls of the palace. This makes her hate the Trojans even more.

14. Who is the Lord of Faerie in "Druid's Sword"?

From Quiz The Troy Game Series

Answer: Harold

Harold is the "human" name taken by the Lord of Faerie in "Druid's Sword".

15. Genvissa is related to Loth in more than one way. Which is the only way Genvissa and Loth are not related?

From Quiz The Troy Game

Answer: mother/son

Aerne is the father of Genvissa and Blangan. He is also the father of Loth by Blangan, making Genvissa Loth's aunt and half-sister. Aerne and Genvissa are also married, making Loth her stepson.

16. Who was Swanne's first incarnation?

From Quiz Past Lives from "The Troy Game"

Answer: Genvissa

Genvissa in "Hades' Daughter" becomes Swanne "in Gods' Concubine." Genvissa is always trying to take Brutus away from his wives in both books. Matilda succeeds in the second book where Cornelia did not in the first book.

17. What is the "religion" of the One based around?

From Quiz Threshold

Answer: Mathematics

The Magi (a type of priest) believe that all life comes from the number one. That is not where it ends though, everything in their world is made in the way of the one: plants are cut into geometric shapes, they cast spells through numbers and they cannot reproduce (the Magi) since it would subdivide the One. All of this and they claim not to worship the One as a God!

18. There are two love triangles in "Hades' Daughter". Which set of people are in the love triangle but not lovers?

From Quiz The Troy Game

Answer: Coel and Genvissa

Brutus and Cornelia are married first. They go to Llangarlia so Brutus can find Genvissa who he eventually pushes Cornelia aside for. Cornelia then falls in love with Coel. The funny thing is, Brutus kills Coel and Cornelia kills Genvissa and Brutus and Cornelia get back together.

19. Who does Loth become in his second incarnation?

From Quiz Past Lives from "The Troy Game"

Answer: Saewaeld

Loth, who had horns growing out of head in "Hades' Daughter," becomes Saewaeld in "Gods' Concubine." Saewaeld fares somewhat better than Loth because he only has a crippled leg.

20. What does Boaz teach Tirzah when he calls her to his chambers?

From Quiz Threshold

Answer: He teaches her how to read and write.

Boaz wants to teach Tirzah how to read and write so that she can read to him the stories from the book of the Soulenai. However, he threatens to kill her if she tells her friends anything that goes on between them.

21. Who are Coel and Brutus reincarnated as?

From Quiz The Troy Game

Answer: Harold and William

It is quite ironic that these two are reincarnated as two men who will eventually fight each other in the battle of Hastings. In the first novel, Brutus murders Coel when he finds out the hard way that Cornelia was having an affair with Coel.

22. In "Darkwitch Rising" Noah finds that she is a Darkwitch because she is descended of whom?

From Quiz The Troy Game Series

Answer: Ariadne and Asterion

Ariadne had a daughter with Asterion when they were lovers, but she sent the daughter away to another royal family. That daughter was Cornelia's ancestor. Therefore Noah was descended from two people with darkcraft.

23. In the flash forwards, the main character is a man named Jack Skelton. Who has he not been in his previous lives?

From Quiz The Troy Game

Answer: Charles

In "Hades' Daughter" he was Brutus. Then in "Gods' Concubine" he was William. Finally in "Darkwitch Rising" he was Louis, even though it seemed like he was Charles for a long time.

24. Who would Catling's parents have been if she had been born the first time?

From Quiz The Troy Game Series

Answer: Genvissa and Brutus

In "Hades' Daughter" Genvissa is pregnant with Brutus' daughter when Cornelia stabs her. In "Druid's Sword" it is revealed that Catling is that daughter.

25. Stella Wentworth is a woman in the flash forwards. Who was she in her previous lives, in order?

From Quiz The Troy Game

Answer: Genvissa, Swanne, Jane

Stella was Genvissa in "Hades' Daughter" then Swanne in "Gods' Concubine" and finally Jane in "Darkwitch Rising".

26. Who is Matilda in "Hades' Daughter"?

From Quiz Past Lives from "The Troy Game"

Answer: She hasn't been born yet

Matilda is new to the story in "Gods' Concubine." She is a powerful force who insists on knowing all about her husband's past life.

27. Who is Hades' daughter?

From Quiz The Troy Game

Answer: Cornelia

The city in which Cornelia was born in cuts straight through the River Styx. After many failed attempts to kill off the Trojans she is given this nickname. By the end of the first book all the Trojans hate her for a slight misunderstanding - but I'm not going to spoil the books for you.

28. Who would the White Queen's parents have been if she had been born the first time?

From Quiz The Troy Game Series

Answer: Cornelia and Brutus

Cornelia is pregnant with Brutus' daughter when Genvissa forces her to miscarry the baby. In "Druid's Sword" the White Queen is revealed to have been that baby.

29. In the flash forwards, King George VI of England is present. He is revealed to be who, reborn?

From Quiz The Troy Game

Answer: John Thornton

John Thornton, the reverend who gets tangled up with Noah in "Darkwitch Rising" is a new character in that book. He reappears in the final story as George VI.

30. What is Boaz's favourite story in the Book of the Soulenai?

From Quiz Threshold

Answer: The Song of the Frogs

"The Song of the Frogs" is the story his mother read to him before she died. She had learnt it by heart.

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