Atonement Quizzes

Atonement Quiz 1

1 What was the name of the play Briony writes?
Two Figures by a Fountain

Northanger Abbey

The Trials of Arabella

Book of Common Prayer
2 Why are Lola, Jackson, and Pierrot Quincey coming to the Tallis estate for the summer?
Their parents were getting a divorce

To see Leon at his homecoming dinner

Their father died in the war and their mother is grieving

To perform in Briony's play
3 Who gets to play Arabella in Briony's play?
Cecilia

Lola

Emily

Briony
4 Who does Briony write her play for?
Cecilia

Her cousins

Robbie Turner

Leon
5 What country do the Tallises live in?
Scotland

France

England

America
6 Where did Cecilia attend university?
She didn't

Oxford

Harvard

Cambridge
7 Why is the vase so important to the Tallis family?
It was Jack Tallis's great, great grandfather's

It was a gift from Robbie Turner to Cecilia

Uncle Clem made it when visiting Belgium

It was a relic brought back from WWI
8 What does Cecilia do when the vase breaks into the fountain?
Tosses the rest of the vase at Robbie, smashing it entirely

Yells at Robbie and orders him to fish out the broken piece

Disrobes and goes swimming for the broken piece

Becomes angry and silent and storms off into the house
9 While at university together, Robbie and Cecilia:
Were best friends, attached at the hip

Ran in different circles and barely spoke

Were romantic lovers, the perfect couple of the university

Were bitter enemies who avoided each other at all times
10 Who is coming to dinner from London along with Leon?
Robbie Turner

Paul Marshall

Danny Hardman

Jack Tallis
11 What year does the opening part of the book take place?
1936

1935

1940

1939
12 When Briony decides to abandon her play, what does she want to do for Leon instead?
Write a story

Put on a magic show

Do a dance

Play the piano
13 When Briony witnesses the scene at the fountain between Robbie and Cecilia, she assumes:
Robbie has thrown Cecilia in the water in fun

Robbie has just saved Cecilia from drowning

Robbie and Cecilia have been swimming because it is so hot out

Robbie is threatening/holding command over Cecilia
14 To a lot of people in the story, Robbie is not suited for Cecilia because,
He is the sone of a servant, she is the daughter of high society

He has to fight in the war, she is a nurse

He is a convicted felon

He has no education, she is a Cambridge graduate
15 What event causes Briony to conclude: "This was not a fairy tale, this was the real, the adult world in which frogs did not address princesses..."
Reading the letter Robbie sends to Cecilia that contains the "c" word

Witnessing Lola being raped

Seeing Cecilia and Robbie at the fountain

Walking in on Cecilia and Robbie in the study
16 What did Cecilia used to say to comfort Briony after nightmares?
Come back

Wake up

It's going to be alright

Don't worry
17 When Cecilia sees Danny Hardman carrying Paul Marshall's luggage, she notices his maturity and wonders:
If he has an attraction to Lola

If he is having perverted thoughts about herself

If him and Briony are plotting something devious

If he is the one that broke the vase
18 Cecilia thinks marrying Paul Marshall would be:
A giant financial success

Socially glorious

Romantically divine

Self-destructive
19 What industry has Paul Marshall getting rich?
Stocks and investments

Fighter planes

Weapons

Chocolate
20 When Cecilia learns Leon has invited Robbie to dinner, what is her reaction?
She is delighted

She is scared

She is worried

She is annoyed
21 Who is caught watching the Quincey children in the nursery when they are arguing about divorce?
Leon Tallis

Robbie Turner

Paul Marshall

Danny Hardman
22 Paul Marshall compares Lola to?
Arabella

A pre-Raphaellite Princess

MacBeth

A child too immature to keep company with
23 What does Lola ask Paul Marshall not to talk about "in front of the children?"
Chocolate

Their parents

The play

The war
24 When Briony decides there will be no play, where does she go?
To the temple/lake

To the library/study

To her room

To the Turner cabin
25 Who ensures the Quincey children that "there will be a war?"
Leon Tallis

Cecilia

Paul Marshall

Briony

‘The relationship between Robbie and Cecelia would never have developed were it not for Briony’s false accusation in part 1’

I disagree. Robbie and Cecelia are already in the midst of a relationship when Briony makes her false accusations against Robbie. Possibly, their relatioship might have taken a different course. Maybe their relationship wouldn't have lasted...

Asked by Majic D #483675

Answered by jill d #170087 on 1/6/2016 8:07 PM

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Foreshadowing in 'Atonement'

Throughout the novel, there are repeated refernces to the "three figures in the garden" from Briony's story. These three mysterious figures foreshadow events that will occur and lend an air of mystery to the story that Briony is telling.

Asked by jmcbee

Answered by jill d #170087 on 2/9/2024 5:32 PM

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How was Robbie and Cecilia's first meeting?

They meet once for half an hour, during Cecilia's lunch break. Their reunion starts awkwardly, but they share a kiss before leaving each other.

Asked by samarah d #1198498

Answered by Aslan on 12/8/2021 3:05 AM

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