The Vivisector Quizzes

The Vivisector Quiz 1

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

Diamond ring

Chandelier

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

Wife

Novelist

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 leaving to become an artist

He's moving to Paris
4 Where does Hurtle move when he first leaves the Courtneys?
Paris

Sydney

Melbourne

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

Mrs. Courtney

Rhoda

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

Peru

New York

Tahiti
7 Where does Hero want to bring Hurtle?
Perialos

Melbourne

Turkey

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

Mozart

Rachmaninoff

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

Novelist

Playwright

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

Dad and Mother

Father and Maman

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

Assisting a painter

Working in a department store

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

Begonia

Lantana

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

An ability to perceive everything around her

A clear vision of the future

An awareness of the reasons for her hysteria
14 How many children did the Duffields have?
1

3

7

5
15 Who is Soso?
Hurtle's child

Kathy Volkov's piano teacher

Rhoda's landlady

Hero and Cosma's quasi-adopted daughter
16 What is Rhoda yelling at when Hurtle encounters her after many years have passed?
Cats

The moon

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 felt she failed Hurtle and Rhoda

She couldn't carry on without relationships with her children

She couldn't face her failure to end vivisection
18 Where do the Courtneys have a memorable holiday?
Monaco

Tuscany

St. Sebastian

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

Miss Tyndall

Miss Gibbons

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

Nance Spreadeagle

Pythoness at Tripod

Girl in the Window
21 What street does Duffield live most of his adult life on?
Windsor Street

Flint 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?
School headmaster

Local councilman

Gardener

Bus driver
24 What does Nance say is true of all men?
They are interested in art

They don't like talking about emotions

They're always thinking about the future

They're in love with themselves
25 Why did Caldicott vouch so much for Duffield?
He couldn't find anyone else

He faced financial pressures to find an ingenue

He was in love with him

Someone told him he had to put his name behind him

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