Tropic of Capricorn Quizzes

Tropic of Capricorn Quiz 1

1 "Once you have _______, everything follows with dead certainty..."
slit your throat

found the cure

given up the ghost

killed yourself
2 Grover
Watrous

Walter

Wasserman

Hamilton
3 Roy
Hyman

Hamilton

Harper

Harrington
4 What does Miller call the company in which he works as a makeshift employment manager?
the Cosmopolitan Telegraph Company

Acme

the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company of North America

the Company of Hell
5 In what year was Tropic of Capricorn published in Paris?
1905

1941

1934

1938
6 Where did Miller grow up?
Paris

Mexico

Arizona

Brooklyn
7 Who is the general manager of the company?
Mr. Roth

Mr. O'Rourke

Mr. Clancy

Mr. Watkins
8 Who is the company's detective?
Mr. Clancy

Hymie

MacGregor

O'Rourke
9 Miller has sex with _____
Mrs. Costello

Pauline Janowski

Valeska

all of the above
10 Pauline Janowski loves which writer?
Proust

Balzac

Hugo

Stendhal
11 What is the last line of the book?
"I'll try to claw my way out of the mess."

"Today, today..."

"Tomorrow, tomorrow..."

"It's just us now!"
12 To what animal does Miller compare a woman with whom he has an intense, nocturnal sexual relationship?
a bird

a snake

a maggot

a dolphin
13 "It was just about this time that the ______ were in full swing..."
children

Deconstructionists

Fauvists

Dadaists
14 What is the name of the Henri Bergson book Miller reads?
Origin of the Species

Creative Control

Creative Evolution

Dance
15 Which Russian writer does Miller praise and write about discovering?
Gogol

Dostoevsky

Tolstoy

Tarkovsky
16 Miller divides his book into how many numbered chapters?
none

twenty

ten

seven
17 What is the name of Miller's cousin, with whom Miller engages in a rock fight with a rival gang of boys?
Greg

Gene

Carter

Ruth
18 Miller's father meets a minister of what denomination?
Congregationalist

Unitarian

Jesuit

Shaker
19 The minister moves to a position in what town?
Cambridge

Princeton

New Rochelle

Santa Monica
20 Miller has a short-term door-to-door job selling
Encyclopedia Britannica

Bibles

votes

chewing gum
21 Miller has an alcoholic Uncle
Neville

Neo

Nicky

Ned
22 Miller describes his sister as a
"heartless girl"

"mental dwarf"

"physical dwarf"

"mental giant"
23 MacGregor wants Miller to meet a nymphomaniac named
Paula

Giselle

Marilyn

Norma
24 Miller takes ____ lessons
flute

sax

drum

piano
25 Miller died in
1976

1990

1980

1917

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