The Vivisector Quizzes

The Vivisector Quiz 1

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

Chandelier

Mural

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

Wife

Novelist

Dancer
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 moving to Paris

He's leaving to become an artist

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

New Zealand

Sydney

Melbourne
5 Who is the person behind Duffield's secret patroness?
Boo Hollingrake

Caldicott

Rhoda

Mrs. Courtney
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?
Casablanca

Melbourne

Turkey

Perialos
8 Who is Kathy Volkov's favorite musician?
Mozart

Bach

Lizst

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

Playwright

Musician

Novelist
10 What do Mr. and Mrs. Courtney want Hurtle to call them?
Father and Mother Dear

Dad and Mother

Father and Maman

Papa and Maman
11 What job is Hurtle doing when he meets Nance Lightfoot?
Assisting a painter

Landscaping

Dishwashing

Working in a department store
12 What plant does Duffield continuously point out seeing in the novel?
Lantana

Palm trees

Sunflowers

Begonia
13 What does Boo Hollingrake say has always been Rhoda's virtue?
Secret creative genius

A clear vision of the future

An ability to perceive everything around her

An awareness of the reasons for her hysteria
14 How many children did the Duffields have?
3

7

1

5
15 Who is Soso?
Hurtle's child

Kathy Volkov's piano teacher

Hero and Cosma's quasi-adopted daughter

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

Kids playing ball

Cats

The moon
17 What does Rhoda say was the reason for Maman's death?
She felt she failed Hurtle and Rhoda

She couldn't face her failure to end vivisection

She felt it wasn't worth living without the inessentials

She couldn't carry on without relationships with her children
18 Where do the Courtneys have a memorable holiday?
Tuscany

St. Yves de Tregor

Monaco

St. Sebastian
19 Who was Hurtle and Rhoda's governess?
Miss Leighton

Miss Nixon

Miss Gibbons

Miss Tyndall
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?
Prince Way

Windsor Street

Chubb's Lane

Flint Street
22 Who is Duffield's protégé?
Cecil Cutbush

Don Lethbridge

Sam Weinstock

Rhoda
23 What is Cecil Cutbush's former job?
Local councilman

Gardener

Bus driver

School headmaster
24 What does Nance say is true of all men?
They're always thinking about the future

They don't like talking about emotions

They are interested in art

They're in love with themselves
25 Why did Caldicott vouch so much for Duffield?
Someone told him he had to put his name behind him

He faced financial pressures to find an ingenue

He couldn't find anyone else

He was in love with him

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