The Bonfire of the Vanities Quizzes

The Bonfire of the Vanities Quiz 1

1 On what block of Park Avenue do the McCoys live?
The 80s

The 60s

The 70s

Midtown
2 When Sherman dials his home number by mistake, while out walking the dog, whom does he ask for?
Maria

Bonita

Campbell

Detective Martin
3 Where is Sherman and Judy's second home?
Long Island

Bucks County

Newport

Connecticut
4 What major life event has just happened to ADA Kramer?
The birth of his daughter

His mother has died

He just got a new job

The birth of his son
5 What do Sherman and Maria call Maria's illegally sublet apartment?
The den

The secret

The hideaway

The hiding place
6 Where did Thomas Killian attend law school?
Yale

City College of New York

Harvard

Columbia
7 What is one of the slang terms for an Irish person in this novel?
Bear

Deer

Pig

Harp
8 What is the Favor Bank?
A system of exchange in lieu of money within the prison system.

A system of hospitality among Park Avenue WASPs.

A new Irish bank opened in the Bronx.

The system of favors used between personnel involved in the criminal justice system.
9 Talliaferro is the school Campbell attends. How is it pronounced?
Toliafiro

Tallyfer

Tolliver

Tallaf
10 What is the name of the firm for which Sherman works?
Dunning, Sponget, and Leach

Pierce and Pierce

Gospel Episcopal Church of Harlem

The All-People's Action Fund
11 Reverend Bacon was ordained by whom?
The Catholic bishop of New York

The pope

His mother

The Episcopal bishop of New York
12 In what part of New York do Maria and Sherman get lost?
Harlem

Westchester County

The Bronx

Brooklyn
13 What kind of car does Sherman drive?
A Cadillac

A Mercedes

A Mercury station wagon

A Jaguar
14 When the boys approach Sherman and Maria, what does Sherman think they say?
Why are you here in the Bronx?

Do you need help?

What are you doing?

Give us all your money!
15 How much money has the Episcopal Diocese given Reverend Bacon for the Little Shepherd Daycare Center?
$980,000

A million dollars

$500.000

$350,000
16 How does Lawrence Kramer meet the girl with brown lipstick?
She's a defendant in a trial he's prosecuting

She's another prosecutor

She's on a jury in a trial he's prosecuting

She's a judge
17 What is Mrs. Lamb's relationship to Reverend Bacon?
Reverend Bacon is Henry's father.

She's his former wife.

She doesn't know him at all.

She used to work for him.
18 What sort of exercise does Judy McCoy do?
Sports Training classes

Long-distance running

Bicycling

Ballet
19 What, in Sherman McCoy's profession, is a "print"?
A column in the newspaper

A request for a new bond issue

A published novel

A completed transaction
20 From what country is Peter Fallow?
Australia

United States

Canada

England
21 What is the bar that Peter Fallow frequents?
Balthazar

Leicester's

Le Cirque

Tavern on the Green
22 What is Lawrence Kramer's wife's name?
Rhoda

Shelly

Bonita

Judy
23 Why does Kramer wear his running shoes in to work?
To be able to run away from dangerous criminals.

He doesn't have any dress shoes.

For health and fitness.

He likes to look like his defendants.
24 The Bavardages throw what kind of a party?
A cocktail party

A luncheon

A dinner party

A ball
25 Why is Herbert 92X so named?
That is his number in the police blotter.

That is the number of his criminal trial.

He is a foundling and has no other name.

It is his Muslim name, like Malcolm X.