Homo Faber Quizzes

Homo Faber Quiz 1

1 Faber acknowledges that the manmade world is imperfect. This is revealed with the plane at La Guardia through
a tornado

a snowstorm

a propeller breakdown

foehn winds
2 When Faber's train is traveling from Campeche to Palenque it is delayed because of
derailment

engine problems

buffalo

a storm
3 The phrase "Les traces d'une Nash," said by Marcel, leads Faber to
cross the river

fly to Houston

meet Ivy

acknowledge his illness
4 The broken shaver in Faber's apartment allows Faber to receive
a visitor

a telegram

a letter

a phone call
5 On Faber's first trip, La Guardia Airport is visited. The death motif associated with this place is:
grave mounds

a mask of death

a palm reading

newspaper headlines
6 On Faber's first trip through a Texas airport, the death motif associated with this place is:
a mask of death

the Other World

newspaper headlines

the River Styx
7 The death motif associated with the Mexican desert Taumalipas is:
eclipse of the moon

beetles/maggots

buffalo

none of the above
8 The death motif associated with Palenque is:
a rocking chair

newspaper headlines

butterflies

a xylophone
9 The death motif associated with Rio Usumancinta is:
beetles/maggots

zopilotes

grave mounds

butterflies
10 The death motif associated with the tobacco plantation is:
the River Styx

buffalo

Joachim's hanging

a rocking chair
11 What three things are feared by Faber simply because he, as a technocrat, cannot control them? (These were listed by Marcel.)
nature/females/death

greed/death/society

death/society/nature

none of the above
12 "Professor O." is never fully identified. The "O" might well refer to
Oracle and/or Olympia

Orcus and/or Osiris

Orpheus and/or Olympus

Orion and/or Olympus
13 Two superstitious omens of misfortune surrounding the Avignon, France episode are
The date (13th)/Lunar eclipse

Sleeping Erinys/Birth of Venus

Rocking chair/Films

Sarcophagus/Grave mound
14 In Cuba, the entire episode revolves around a world filled with characters symbolizing "youth." Two characters who represent "youth" in Cuba are:
Sabeth/Juana

Juana/shoeshine boy

Hardy/truck driver

young technician/Hardy
15 In the Cuba scene, the phrases "Romeo y Julieta," "Castello Morro" and "Partagas" refer to
lovers

cigars

streets

prostitutes
16 In Cuba, Faber spends much of his time in a rocking chair. This chair is colored
yellow

green

black

white
17 "I can't bear being unshaven." This line is spoken by
Faber

Hardy

Joachim

Armin
18 "It's all over. I had said 'your child,' instead of 'our child.' That was why she could not forgive me." These lines are spoken by
Hanna

Faber

Joachim

Professor O.
19 "His face was no longer a face, but a skull with skin over it. He laughed...He laughed...He kept on laughing." These lines refer to
Marcel

the French waiter

Joachim

Professor O.
20 "He only grins...I love him. His teeth...His young skin..." These lines are said by Faber and refer to
a shoeshine boy

Joachim

a French waiter

Sabeth's boyfriend
21 Hanna says, "It was simply wonderful to walk through the world with him." "I never really noticed him," said Faber. "But he noticed you," said Hanna. In these lines, the he and the him refer to
Hardy

Armin

Joachim

a shoeshine boy
22 When Faber dreams about Las Vegas, the symbolism is that Las Vegas
represents a place of sin without guilt

represents a place with no beginning and no end--it has eternal life.

represents a place of money without poverty

all of the above
23 Faber is constantly peeling or eating apples. This is a subtle reference to
Greek myths of life

technology

the theme of "original sin"

none of the above
24 When Faber "hid behind the bolted door of a toilet" he was in
New York City

Athens

Houston

Rome
25 When Faber says, "I walked like a man being led out of jail into the courtroom," he was in Houston and being led by
a French waiter

a shoeshine boy

a stewardess

Juana

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Homo Faber

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