The Vivisector Quizzes

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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?

Wife

Woman

Novelist

Dancer
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 enlisting in the military

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

Mrs. Courtney

Rhoda

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

Tahiti

London

New York

Peru
7 Where does Hero want to bring Hurtle?

Casablanca

Turkey

Melbourne

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?

Musician

Playwright

Sculptor

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

Father and Maman

Dad and Mother

Father and Mother Dear

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?

Lantana

Sunflowers

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?

7

5

1

3
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?

The moon

Cats

Cars driving too fast

Kids playing ball
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 face her failure to end vivisection

She felt she failed Hurtle and Rhoda

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

St. Yves de Tregor

Monaco

Tuscany

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

Miss Gibbons

Miss Tyndall

Miss Leighton

Miss Nixon
20 What is the name of Hurtle's painting of Rhoda?

Girl in the Window

Forms and Figures

Nance Spreadeagle

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

Flint Street

Chubb's Lane

Windsor Street

Prince Way
22 Who is Duffield's protégé?

Cecil Cutbush

Rhoda

Sam Weinstock

Don Lethbridge
23 What is Cecil Cutbush's former job?

Local councilman

Bus driver

School headmaster

Gardener
24 What does Nance say is true of all men?

They are interested in art

They don't like talking about emotions

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 couldn't find anyone else

Someone told him he had to put his name behind him

He faced financial pressures to find an ingenue

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