The Vivisector Quizzes

The Vivisector Quiz 1

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

Diamond ring

Mural

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

Novelist

Dancer

Woman
3 What reason does Hurtle give Mrs. Courtney for his departure from their house and family as a teenager?
He's moving to Paris

He's leaving to become an artist

He's enlisting in the military

He's returning to his biological family
4 Where does Hurtle move when he first leaves the Courtneys?
Sydney

New Zealand

Melbourne

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

Mrs. Courtney

Rhoda

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

New York

London

Tahiti
7 Where does Hero want to bring Hurtle?
Melbourne

Perialos

Turkey

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

Lizst

Mozart

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

Playwright

Sculptor

Musician
10 What do Mr. and Mrs. Courtney want Hurtle to call them?
Father and Maman

Dad and Mother

Papa and Maman

Father and Mother Dear
11 What job is Hurtle doing when he meets Nance Lightfoot?
Landscaping

Dishwashing

Working in a department store

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 awareness of the reasons for her hysteria

An ability to perceive everything around her

Secret creative genius

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

3

1

7
15 Who is Soso?
Hurtle's child

Rhoda's landlady

Hero and Cosma's quasi-adopted daughter

Kathy Volkov's piano teacher
16 What is Rhoda yelling at when Hurtle encounters her after many years have passed?
Cats

The moon

Kids playing ball

Cars driving too fast
17 What does Rhoda say was the reason for Maman's death?
She felt it wasn't worth living without the inessentials

She couldn't carry on without relationships with her children

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

Monaco

St. Sebastian

St. Yves de Tregor
19 Who was Hurtle and Rhoda's governess?
Miss Leighton

Miss Nixon

Miss Tyndall

Miss Gibbons
20 What is the name of Hurtle's painting of Rhoda?
Forms and Figures

Girl in the Window

Pythoness at Tripod

Nance Spreadeagle
21 What street does Duffield live most of his adult life on?
Flint Street

Windsor Street

Prince Way

Chubb's Lane
22 Who is Duffield's protégé?
Don Lethbridge

Cecil Cutbush

Rhoda

Sam Weinstock
23 What is Cecil Cutbush's former job?
Bus driver

Gardener

Local councilman

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

They are interested in art

They're in love with themselves

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

He faced financial pressures to find an ingenue

Someone told him he had to put his name behind him

He couldn't find anyone else

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