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?
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 enlisting in the military

He's returning to his biological family

He's moving to Paris

He's leaving to become an artist
4 Where does Hurtle move when he first leaves the Courtneys?
New Zealand

Melbourne

Sydney

Paris
5 Who is the person behind Duffield's secret patroness?
Mrs. Courtney

Rhoda

Caldicott

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

Tahiti

New York

London
7 Where does Hero want to bring Hurtle?
Melbourne

Casablanca

Turkey

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

Rachmaninoff

Bach

Lizst
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 Mother Dear

Father and Maman

Dad and Mother

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

Working in a department store

Dishwashing

Landscaping
12 What plant does Duffield continuously point out seeing in the novel?
Sunflowers

Lantana

Palm trees

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

An awareness of the reasons for her hysteria

A clear vision of the future

An ability to perceive everything around her
14 How many children did the Duffields have?
3

5

7

1
15 Who is Soso?
Hero and Cosma's quasi-adopted daughter

Hurtle's child

Kathy Volkov's piano teacher

Rhoda's landlady
16 What is Rhoda yelling at when Hurtle encounters her after many years have passed?
The moon

Cats

Kids playing ball

Cars driving too fast
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?
St. Yves de Tregor

St. Sebastian

Monaco

Tuscany
19 Who was Hurtle and Rhoda's governess?
Miss Nixon

Miss Gibbons

Miss Tyndall

Miss Leighton
20 What is the name of Hurtle's painting of Rhoda?
Nance Spreadeagle

Girl in the Window

Forms and Figures

Pythoness at Tripod
21 What street does Duffield live most of his adult life on?
Flint Street

Windsor Street

Chubb's Lane

Prince Way
22 Who is Duffield's protégé?
Don Lethbridge

Rhoda

Cecil Cutbush

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

School headmaster

Local councilman

Bus driver
24 What does Nance say is true of all men?
They're in love with themselves

They don't like talking about emotions

They're always thinking about the future

They are interested in art
25 Why did Caldicott vouch so much for Duffield?
He couldn't find anyone else

He was in love with him

Someone told him he had to put his name behind him

He faced financial pressures to find an ingenue

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