The Vivisector Quizzes

The Vivisector Quiz 1

1 What object inspires Hurtle when he first visits the Courtneys house?
Urn

Mural

Chandelier

Diamond ring
2 What is Rhoda's fate as predicted by the Planchette?
Wife

Dancer

Novelist

Woman
3 What reason does Hurtle give Mrs. Courtney for his departure from their house and family as a teenager?
He's enlisting in the military

He's leaving to become an artist

He's returning to his biological family

He's moving to Paris
4 Where does Hurtle move when he first leaves the Courtneys?
New Zealand

Paris

Melbourne

Sydney
5 Who is the person behind Duffield's secret patroness?
Caldicott

Boo Hollingrake

Mrs. Courtney

Rhoda
6 Where was Boo Hollingrake living in the years before she returned to Australia?
London

Peru

Tahiti

New York
7 Where does Hero want to bring Hurtle?
Perialos

Turkey

Casablanca

Melbourne
8 Who is Kathy Volkov's favorite musician?
Bach

Rachmaninoff

Mozart

Lizst
9 What kind of aspiring artist does Hurtle encounter when he goes to Mumbelong with Mr. Courtney?
Musician

Playwright

Novelist

Sculptor
10 What do Mr. and Mrs. Courtney want Hurtle to call them?
Papa and Maman

Dad and Mother

Father and Maman

Father and Mother Dear
11 What job is Hurtle doing when he meets Nance Lightfoot?
Working in a department store

Dishwashing

Landscaping

Assisting a painter
12 What plant does Duffield continuously point out seeing in the novel?
Begonia

Sunflowers

Lantana

Palm trees
13 What does Boo Hollingrake say has always been Rhoda's virtue?
An ability to perceive everything around her

Secret creative genius

An awareness of the reasons for her hysteria

A clear vision of the future
14 How many children did the Duffields have?
5

1

3

7
15 Who is Soso?
Hero and Cosma's quasi-adopted daughter

Kathy Volkov's piano teacher

Rhoda's landlady

Hurtle's child
16 What is Rhoda yelling at when Hurtle encounters her after many years have passed?
Cars driving too fast

Cats

The moon

Kids playing ball
17 What does Rhoda say was the reason for Maman's death?
She couldn't carry on without relationships with her children

She felt it wasn't worth living without the inessentials

She felt she failed Hurtle and Rhoda

She couldn't face her failure to end vivisection
18 Where do the Courtneys have a memorable holiday?
Tuscany

St. Yves de Tregor

St. Sebastian

Monaco
19 Who was Hurtle and Rhoda's governess?
Miss Tyndall

Miss Gibbons

Miss Nixon

Miss Leighton
20 What is the name of Hurtle's painting of Rhoda?
Pythoness at Tripod

Nance Spreadeagle

Forms and Figures

Girl in the Window
21 What street does Duffield live most of his adult life on?
Chubb's Lane

Windsor Street

Flint Street

Prince Way
22 Who is Duffield's protégé?
Sam Weinstock

Rhoda

Don Lethbridge

Cecil Cutbush
23 What is Cecil Cutbush's former job?
Gardener

Bus driver

Local councilman

School headmaster
24 What does Nance say is true of all men?
They don't like talking about emotions

They're in love with themselves

They are interested in art

They're always thinking about the future
25 Why did Caldicott vouch so much for Duffield?
He was in love with him

He couldn't find anyone else

He faced financial pressures to find an ingenue

Someone told him he had to put his name behind him

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