The Vivisector Quizzes

The Vivisector Quiz 1

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

Chandelier

Diamond ring

Mural
2 What is Rhoda's fate as predicted by the Planchette?
Novelist

Woman

Dancer

Wife
3 What reason does Hurtle give Mrs. Courtney for his departure from their house and family as a teenager?
He's leaving to become an artist

He's moving to Paris

He's returning to his biological family

He's enlisting in the military
4 Where does Hurtle move when he first leaves the Courtneys?
Melbourne

New Zealand

Paris

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

Boo Hollingrake

Mrs. Courtney

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

Peru

London

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

Melbourne

Perialos

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

Bach

Mozart

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

Musician

Sculptor

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

Father and Maman

Dad and Mother

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

Assisting a painter

Dishwashing

Landscaping
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?
An ability to perceive everything around her

A clear vision of the future

Secret creative genius

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

1

7

5
15 Who is Soso?
Rhoda's landlady

Hurtle's child

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?
Cars driving too fast

The moon

Kids playing ball

Cats
17 What does Rhoda say was the reason for Maman's death?
She couldn't face her failure to end vivisection

She felt she failed Hurtle and Rhoda

She couldn't carry on without relationships with her children

She felt it wasn't worth living without the inessentials
18 Where do the Courtneys have a memorable holiday?
Tuscany

St. Sebastian

Monaco

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

Miss Gibbons

Miss Leighton

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

Nance Spreadeagle

Girl in the Window

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

Flint Street

Chubb's Lane

Prince Way
22 Who is Duffield's protégé?
Rhoda

Sam Weinstock

Don Lethbridge

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

Gardener

School headmaster

Local councilman
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 faced financial pressures to find an ingenue

He was in love with him

He couldn't find anyone else

Someone told him he had to put his name behind him

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