The Island of Dr. Moreau Quizzes

The Island of Dr. Moreau Quiz 1

1 Under whom did both Prendick and Wells study biology?
Darwin

Kellar

Davis

Huxley
2 The ship that first picked up Prendick at the beginning of the story is named which of the following?
The Lady Vain

Medusa

Ipecacuanha

Myrtle
3 What is the captain's name?
John Davis

Alfred Huxley

John Huxley

Charles Davis
4 How many people were initially in the lifeboat with Prendick, excluding him?
Zero

Four

Three

Two
5 What does Prendick's nephew suggest the island is named?
Callao

Arica

The Island of Doctor Moreau

Noble's Island
6 What animal does Montgomery release upon reaching the island with Prendick?
Mice

Birds

Rabbits

Snakes
7 Which most accurately describes Prendick's status?
Middle Class

Lower Class

Nobility

Upper Class
8 Why did Moreau finally allow Prendick to stay on the island?
He feared Prendick would tell others about his experiments

He wanted to experiment on Prendick

Prendick promised to help him with his experiments

He did not believe the captain would really leave him stranded in the lifeboat
9 What does Prendick refuse to consume?
Brandy

Red meat

Dark meat

Biscuits
10 Which of the following was never a threat to Prendick?
The Hyena-Swine

M'ling

The Leopard Man

The Satyr
11 Prendick spends about how much time on the island in total?
One month

Eleven months

Six months

Nine months
12 About how many Beast Folk are living on the island when Prendick arrives?
Sixty

Ten

One hundred twenty

Two hundred
13 Why did Moreau leave England?
He wanted to be able to work where the authorities could not catch him

The Royal College of Science and Technology paid him to research abroad

He was hounded out after a reporter exposed his experiments

He wanted to work with more exotic animals
14 Why did Montgomery leave England?
He too is interested in the limits of vivisection

He was involved in a murder that Moreau helped to cover up

He "lost his head" one foggy evening

He had been working with Moreau in his lab, so they left together
15 Which of the following is NOT an obvious deformity in the Beast Folk?
Malformed hands

Outwardly-curved spines

Abnormally long legs compared to torso

Muzzle-like faces
16 Why does Montgomery find his annual trip to Arica insufficient contact with other humans?
He does not get a chance to talk enough with the crew

The people in the seafaring village are not the finest type of mankind

He works primarily through a wildlife agent on the mainland

He speaks no Portuguese and thus cannot interact with the Arican natives
17 Why does The Lady Vain sink?
A storm ripped the boat apart

It collided with a derelict

A mutiny resulted in a deck fire

Pirates attacked, looted, and scuttled the ship
18 Where does Moreau propose that Prendick stay while on the island?
A hut of the Beast Folk

A shack outside the enclosure

The outer room of the enclosure

Montgomery's room
19 What drives Prendick into the jungle for the first time?
Moreau insults him, and Prendick leaves in indignation

He believes M'ling is stalking him

The sounds of the puma being vivisected

Montgomery's drunken antics
20 What observation does Prendick make about the cries of the puma?
That they seem to get louder and more frantic with every moment

That the cries seem to resonate with every part of his human sympathies

That if he had known such pain was felt, but could not hear the cries himself, he could stand it well enough

That the sounds of the puma are like the sounds of a woman
21 How does Montgomery respond when Prendick confronts him about M'ling's pointed ears and luminous eyes?
Tells Prendick he must still be delusional

Pretends to have never noticed them himself

Angrily tells Prendick to mind his own business

Confesses to M'ling's true nature and origin
22 Who chases Prendick on his first exploration of the island?
The Sayer of the Law

The Leopard Man

The Satyr

The Hyena-Swine
23 H.G. Wells was which of the following?
A modern democrat

A classical republican

A libertarian

A communist
24 Why does the Leopard Man chase Prendick during his first expedition?
Moreau set him on Prendick to keep him from telling anyone about the island

He has tasted blood and it has awakened his animal instincts

Prendick trespassed into his territory

Prendick threatened him
25 How does Montgomery react to Prendick's story of being chased by the Leopard Man?
He tells him it was one of the local animals

He tells him there must be another human on the island

He tells him that Moreau has forbidden him to talk about it

He tells him it was just a "bogle," a product of his imagination

Who narrates the harrowing days at sea? How long were they at sea for?

I think that Charles Prendick does. They were at sea for 8 days.

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What grizzly thing happens on the sixth day?

The ship crew are considering cannibalism.

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Midterm Question

By 1896, England was well into the Second Industrial Revolution, and it had developed a strong confidence in science's ability to solve problems. Darwinism had proven to many that humans and animals were not finished, immutable products but were...

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