Rhinoceros Quizzes

Rhinoceros Quiz 1

By Stephen Haskell · Edited by Adam Kissel · Last reviewed August 01, 2008

1 During their first rendezvous at the cafe, Jean gives Berenger

A business card

A tie

A birthday present

Money
2 At the cafe, a rhinoceros kills

Itself

A woman

Another rhinoceros

A cat
3 The Logician argues that

Fear is not important

Fear is rational

Fear is irrational

Fear must be honed
4 At the cafe, Jean

Expects a rhinoceros to arrive

Does not find the rhinoceros strange or significant

Is more concerned about the rhinoceros than Berenger

Does not admit the rhinoceros exists
5 When Berenger sees Daisy in the town square, he

Says hello

Introduces himself

Kisses her

Hides
6 According to the Logician, a syllogism

Is a theory that cannot be proven

Consists of a main proposition, a secondary one, and a conclusion

Consists of an idea and its opposite

Is a false statement
7 How does Jean suggest Berenger improve his life?

Read self-help books

Quit his job

Go to museums

Get a wife
8 In the beginning of the play, Berenger thinks that Daisy loves

Dudard

Jean

Berenger

Mr. Papillon
9 Jean suggests that Berenger see which playwright's plays?

Mamet's

Ionesco's

Moliere's

Shakespeare's
10 After chiding Berenger about drinking, Jean plans to

Go drinking

Go to a museum

Go to a play by Moliere

Exercise his mind by reading a book
11 The Grocer's wife offers the Housewife

Another cat to replace her dead one

A drink

A job

A loaf of bread
12 After Jean tells Berenger not to drink, Berenger

Drinks

Goes to a play

Stops drinking

Starts a new diet
13 In the office, who at first does not believe the rhinoceros exists?

Dudard

Mr. Papillon

Botard

Daisy
14 Botard claims to

Uphold all universal truths

Challenge false logic in all circumstances

Understand the rhinoceros mentality

Despise but highly esteem religion
15 Mr. Papillion cares about

Only Daisy

Meal times

The alcoholic repression law

French history
16 Mrs. Boeuf

Files an insurance claim on her husband

Decides to eat her husband for dinner

Decides to join her husband

Attempts to divorce her husband
17 When Botard sees the rhinoceros at the office, he

Jumps out the window to join it

Runs away, terrified

Claims to understand how it happened and why

Becomes a rhinoceros himself
18 When Mr. Papillon understands that Mr. Boeuf has become a rhinoceros, he

Feels sympathy for Mrs. Boeuf and offers her money

Orders dinner

Cannot speak

Sees it as an excuse to fire him
19 Dudard and Berenger

Both propose to Daisy

Become rhinoceroses together

Climb through the office window together

Hate each other
20 When Berenger gets out of work early because of the rhinoceros events, he wants to

Go get a drink

Find a new restaurant

See his friend Jean

Stay at the office
21 In his apartment, Jean

Has been throwing up

Is starving

Cannot speak

Seems sickly
22 Jean's neighbor's name is

Paul

Joanne

Jean

Jenny
23 What indicates that Jean will turn into a rhinoceros?

His hoarse voice and migraine headache

His bewildering hallucinations

His angry shouting and long tail

His choice of meat for dinner
24 Jean excuses the pain on his forehead by thinking that

He is dying

Berenger hit him

He knocked himself

He dreamed that he knocked himself
25 Jean claims that

Eastern medicine can best solve health problems

Doctors invent illnesses that do not exist

Doctors use faulty logic to make money

Doctors are supremely intelligent

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Berenger notices that Jean's skin has become like leather.

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The title, Rhinoceros, supports the play as an example of the Theatre of the Absurd. The author uses the chaos of the wild animal to present fascism as a disease that turns humans into unintelligent, violent creatures--rhinoceroses. More than any...

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