Enduring Love Quizzes

Enduring Love Quiz 1

By Virginia Farrell · Edited by Meghan Joyce · Last reviewed August 25, 2012

1 Which Romantic poet does Clarissa study?

Wordsworth

Byron

Shelley

Keats
2 What is the name of the helium balloon's pilot?

Jed Parry

James Gadd

Toby Greene

Joseph Lacey
3 What does Joe say he’s “never seen such a terrible thing as?”

"that rising balloon"

"that screaming child"

"that drifting balloon"

"that falling man"
4 Who is Clarissa in love with, besides Joe?

John Logan

John Keats

Jed Parry

Professor Kale
5 Who wasn’t at the balloon accident?

Jed Parry

Toby Green

Johnny B. Well

Joseph Lacey
6 What is Clarissa looking for on her sabbatical?

A new job

John Keats' birth certificate

John Keats' first novel

John Keats' last letters
7 To which painter's work does Joe compare Logan's face?

Manet

Van Gogh

Monet

Picasso
8 What excuse does Parry give for his arrival at Logan’s body?

The police want to see Joe

Clarissa was worried about Joe

They need Joe's help to save the boy

Parry's in love with Joe
9 When Joe first meets Parry, what is Parry's hair style?

Ponytail

Buzzcut

Mohawk

Bowl cut
10 To what does Joe compare Parry's appearance?

A boxer

A cat

A hawk

An Indian brave
11 To which text does Clarissa compare Logan's fall?

Milton's Paradise Lost

Shakespeare's Hamlet

Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
12 What does Clarissa secretly want?

A hot air balloon

A science career

More money

Children
13 What is Joe's "first serious mistake?"

Smilling at Jed Parry after the accident

Letting go of the rope

Taking Clarissa on the picnic

Not telling Clarissa about Parry's phone call
14 What is Joe's occupation?

Science journalist

Scientist

Newspaper editor

History professor
15 What does Joe want to prove in his article about 19th-century science?

That it valued structure more than the 20th century

That it was wrong

That it used narrative

That it was better written
16 What does Joe see in the library that unnerves him?

A pair of white sneakers with red laces

A hot air balloon display

Clarissa with another man

A picture of John Logan
17 What does Clarissa and Joe's apartment building look like?

A Victorian mansion

An ocean liner

A windmill

A French chateau
18 Whose "beautiful" theory does Joe use to support his argument?

Albert Einstein

Sigmund Freud

Marie Curie

Leonard Euler
19 Where is Parry when he calls Joe?

In the library

In Joe's house

Down the street

In Parry's house
20 What does Joe do to distract himself while Clarissa is having dinner with her brother?

Talk to his professor friend

Call Parry

Get drunk

Write an article on narrative in science
21 How does Clarissa react to the news of Parry's phone call?

She storms out of the house

She accuses Joe of cheating on her

She thinks its a joke

She calls the police
22 Why does Parry think Joe has been sent to him?

So Parry can bring Joe to God

So that Clarissa can suffer

So Parry can have a family

So that they can write articles together
23 What makes Joe quickly drive away from Parry in his taxi?

Parry pulls out a gun

Parry threatens Joe

Parry mentions Clarissa

Parry tells Joe he loves him
24 What does Clarissa call the trend in science towards Neo-Darwinism?

The new fundamentalism

A distorting mirror

Aetheistic insanity

Social Darwinism
25 What do Clarisa and Joe argue about in relation to Neo-Darwinism?

A baby's smile

Social evolution

Narrative in science

Foresight in dogs

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