The Vivisector Quizzes

The Vivisector Quiz 1

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

Mural

Chandelier

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

Dancer

Woman

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 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?
Paris

New Zealand

Melbourne

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

Boo Hollingrake

Rhoda

Mrs. Courtney
6 Where was Boo Hollingrake living in the years before she returned to Australia?
New York

Tahiti

London

Peru
7 Where does Hero want to bring Hurtle?
Perialos

Melbourne

Turkey

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

Lizst

Bach

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

Novelist

Musician

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

Dad and Mother

Papa and Maman

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

Assisting a painter

Dishwashing

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

Sunflowers

Begonia

Lantana
13 What does Boo Hollingrake say has always been Rhoda's virtue?
An awareness of the reasons for her hysteria

A clear vision of the future

Secret creative genius

An ability to perceive everything around her
14 How many children did the Duffields have?
1

3

7

5
15 Who is Soso?
Kathy Volkov's piano teacher

Rhoda's landlady

Hurtle's child

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

Cars driving too fast

The moon

Cats
17 What does Rhoda say was the reason for Maman's death?
She couldn't carry on without relationships with her children

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
18 Where do the Courtneys have a memorable holiday?
St. Sebastian

Monaco

St. Yves de Tregor

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

Miss Gibbons

Miss Nixon

Miss Tyndall
20 What is the name of Hurtle's painting of Rhoda?
Girl in the Window

Nance Spreadeagle

Forms and Figures

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

Flint Street

Windsor Street

Chubb's Lane
22 Who is Duffield's protégé?
Rhoda

Cecil Cutbush

Sam Weinstock

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

Gardener

Bus driver

Local councilman
24 What does Nance say is true of all men?
They don't like talking about emotions

They are interested in art

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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