Tropic of Capricorn Quizzes

Tropic of Capricorn Quiz 1

By Damien Chazelle · Edited by Jordan Reid Strauch · Last reviewed November 18, 2008

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

given up the ghost

found the cure

killed yourself

slit your throat
2 Grover

Wasserman

Hamilton

Watrous

Walter
3 Roy

Harrington

Hyman

Harper

Hamilton
4 What does Miller call the company in which he works as a makeshift employment manager?

Acme

the Company of Hell

the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company of North America

the Cosmopolitan Telegraph Company
5 In what year was Tropic of Capricorn published in Paris?

1934

1938

1905

1941
6 Where did Miller grow up?

Brooklyn

Arizona

Paris

Mexico
7 Who is the general manager of the company?

Mr. O'Rourke

Mr. Watkins

Mr. Clancy

Mr. Roth
8 Who is the company's detective?

Hymie

MacGregor

Mr. Clancy

O'Rourke
9 Miller has sex with _____

Mrs. Costello

Pauline Janowski

Valeska

all of the above
10 Pauline Janowski loves which writer?

Stendhal

Hugo

Balzac

Proust
11 What is the last line of the book?

"Today, today..."

"It's just us now!"

"I'll try to claw my way out of the mess."

"Tomorrow, tomorrow..."
12 To what animal does Miller compare a woman with whom he has an intense, nocturnal sexual relationship?

a snake

a maggot

a dolphin

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

children

Fauvists

Dadaists

Deconstructionists
14 What is the name of the Henri Bergson book Miller reads?

Creative Control

Origin of the Species

Creative Evolution

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

Dostoevsky

Gogol

Tarkovsky

Tolstoy
16 Miller divides his book into how many numbered chapters?

none

ten

seven

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

Gene

Greg

Carter

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

Jesuit

Unitarian

Congregationalist

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

Santa Monica

Cambridge

Princeton

New Rochelle
20 Miller has a short-term door-to-door job selling

chewing gum

Bibles

votes

Encyclopedia Britannica
21 Miller has an alcoholic Uncle

Neville

Ned

Nicky

Neo
22 Miller describes his sister as a

"mental giant"

"mental dwarf"

"heartless girl"

"physical dwarf"
23 MacGregor wants Miller to meet a nymphomaniac named

Norma

Giselle

Paula

Marilyn
24 Miller takes ____ lessons

piano

drum

sax

flute
25 Miller died in

1917

1990

1976

1980

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