Gilead Quizzes

Gilead Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne-Bartucca · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed March 30, 2016

1 What year was the novel written?

2005

2004

2000

2010
2 What nationality is Robinson?

French

Irish

American

British
3 Where is the novel set?

Iowa

Illinois

Wisconsin

Ohio
4 What religion is dealt with?

Judaism

Buddhism

Islam

Christianity
5 What is Gilead?

A town

An idea

A poem

A person
6 Who is narrating the novel?

Ames

Ames's son

Jack Boughton

Third-person
7 The novel is in the form of

a letter

a diary

a poem

a book
8 What is Ames's profession?

Artist

Preacher

Doctor

Lawyer
9 What is Soapy?

A cat

A dog

A horse

A cow
10 Ames is in his

sixties

seventies

eighties

fifties
11 Where did Ames and his father travel?

To his grandfather's grave

To the Capitol

To a church

To a battlefield
12 Who is Louisa?

Boughton's daughter

Ames's daughter

The girl Jack was involved with

Ames's first wife
13 What is in the boxes in the attic?

Letters

Clothes

Sermons

Dried flowers
14 What is the most conspicuous characteristic of Lila, Ames's wife?

Seriousness

Levity

Wit

Intelligence
15 What animal did Ames baptize as a kid?

Kitten

Puppy

Piglet

Chick
16 What philosopher does Ames respect?

Nietzsche

Feuerbach

Kierkegaard

Foucault
17 Ames's brother Edward is all of the following except

an atheist

married to a German girl

a preacher

a scholar
18 Boughton is

Ames's best friend

not very religious

young

a doctor
19 Ames's grandfather is described as all of the following except

forbidding

angry

generous

lacking in eccentricity
20 There was a fire at

the cotton field

the Negro church

the local dry goods store

the diner
21 Who is the only person Ames said he would allow to comfort him?

His wife

His congregation

Boughton

Jack Boughton
22 Ames's infamous sermon that he never gave addressed

Communism

the war

the Spanish flu

the Depression
23 Ames's favorite sport is

football

lacrosse

baseball

badminton
24 What happens at the baseball game that Ames's grandfather takes him to?

A home run

A thunderstorm

A conversion

A fight
25 Which character says he has visions?

Ames's father

Boughton

Ames

Ames's grandfather

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