The Bonfire of the Vanities Quizzes

The Bonfire of the Vanities Quiz 1

By Elizabeth Smith · Edited by W.C. Miller · Last reviewed April 17, 2007

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

Midtown

The 70s

The 80s

The 60s
2 When Sherman dials his home number by mistake, while out walking the dog, whom does he ask for?

Bonita

Detective Martin

Campbell

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

Connecticut

Newport

Bucks County

Long Island
4 What major life event has just happened to ADA Kramer?

He just got a new job

His mother has died

The birth of his son

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

The secret

The hideaway

The hiding place

The den
6 Where did Thomas Killian attend law school?

City College of New York

Harvard

Columbia

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

Deer

Harp

Bear

Pig
8 What is the Favor Bank?

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

A new Irish bank opened in the Bronx.

A system of hospitality among Park Avenue WASPs.

A system of exchange in lieu of money within the prison system.
9 Talliaferro is the school Campbell attends. How is it pronounced?

Tallaf

Tolliver

Toliafiro

Tallyfer
10 What is the name of the firm for which Sherman works?

Pierce and Pierce

The All-People's Action Fund

Dunning, Sponget, and Leach

Gospel Episcopal Church of Harlem
11 Reverend Bacon was ordained by whom?

The Episcopal bishop of New York

His mother

The Catholic bishop of New York

The pope
12 In what part of New York do Maria and Sherman get lost?

The Bronx

Brooklyn

Harlem

Westchester County
13 What kind of car does Sherman drive?

A Cadillac

A Mercury station wagon

A Jaguar

A Mercedes
14 When the boys approach Sherman and Maria, what does Sherman think they say?

Do you need help?

Why are you here in the Bronx?

Give us all your money!

What are you doing?
15 How much money has the Episcopal Diocese given Reverend Bacon for the Little Shepherd Daycare Center?

$980,000

$350,000

$500.000

A million dollars
16 How does Lawrence Kramer meet the girl with brown lipstick?

She's a judge

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

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

She's another prosecutor
17 What is Mrs. Lamb's relationship to Reverend Bacon?

She doesn't know him at all.

She's his former wife.

She used to work for him.

Reverend Bacon is Henry's father.
18 What sort of exercise does Judy McCoy do?

Long-distance running

Sports Training classes

Ballet

Bicycling
19 What, in Sherman McCoy's profession, is a "print"?

A request for a new bond issue

A column in the newspaper

A completed transaction

A published novel
20 From what country is Peter Fallow?

Canada

England

Australia

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

Tavern on the Green

Le Cirque

Balthazar

Leicester's
22 What is Lawrence Kramer's wife's name?

Rhoda

Shelly

Judy

Bonita
23 Why does Kramer wear his running shoes in to work?

For health and fitness.

He doesn't have any dress shoes.

He likes to look like his defendants.

To be able to run away from dangerous criminals.
24 The Bavardages throw what kind of a party?

A luncheon

A cocktail party

A ball

A dinner party
25 Why is Herbert 92X so named?

He is a foundling and has no other name.

That is the number of his criminal trial.

That is his number in the police blotter.

It is his Muslim name, like Malcolm X.

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