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 70s

The 60s

The 80s

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

Detective Martin

Bonita

Maria
3 Where is Sherman and Judy's second home?
Connecticut

Bucks County

Long Island

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

He just got a new job

The birth of his daughter

His mother has died
5 What do Sherman and Maria call Maria's illegally sublet apartment?
The hideaway

The den

The hiding place

The secret
6 Where did Thomas Killian attend law school?
Harvard

City College of New York

Columbia

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

Bear

Harp

Deer
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.

The system of favors used between personnel involved in the criminal justice system.

A new Irish bank opened in the Bronx.
9 Talliaferro is the school Campbell attends. How is it pronounced?
Tallyfer

Tallaf

Toliafiro

Tolliver
10 What is the name of the firm for which Sherman works?
Pierce and Pierce

Gospel Episcopal Church of Harlem

The All-People's Action Fund

Dunning, Sponget, and Leach
11 Reverend Bacon was ordained by whom?
The Episcopal bishop of New York

The pope

The Catholic bishop of New York

His mother
12 In what part of New York do Maria and Sherman get lost?
Harlem

Westchester County

Brooklyn

The Bronx
13 What kind of car does Sherman drive?
A Jaguar

A Mercedes

A Mercury station wagon

A Cadillac
14 When the boys approach Sherman and Maria, what does Sherman think they say?
What are you doing?

Do you need help?

Give us all your money!

Why are you here in the Bronx?
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 another prosecutor

She's a judge

She's a defendant in a trial he's prosecuting

She's on a jury in a trial he's prosecuting
17 What is Mrs. Lamb's relationship to Reverend Bacon?
She used to work for him.

Reverend Bacon is Henry's father.

She doesn't know him at all.

She's his former wife.
18 What sort of exercise does Judy McCoy do?
Ballet

Long-distance running

Sports Training classes

Bicycling
19 What, in Sherman McCoy's profession, is a "print"?
A request for a new bond issue

A completed transaction

A column in the newspaper

A published novel
20 From what country is Peter Fallow?
England

Australia

Canada

United States
21 What is the bar that Peter Fallow frequents?
Leicester's

Balthazar

Le Cirque

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

Rhoda

Judy

Bonita
23 Why does Kramer wear his running shoes in to work?
He doesn't have any dress shoes.

To be able to run away from dangerous criminals.

For health and fitness.

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

A dinner party

A ball

A cocktail party
25 Why is Herbert 92X so named?
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.

That is his number in the police blotter.