Tropic of Capricorn Quizzes

Tropic of Capricorn Quiz 1

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

slit your throat

given up the ghost

found the cure
2 Grover
Hamilton

Watrous

Wasserman

Walter
3 Roy
Harper

Harrington

Hamilton

Hyman
4 What does Miller call the company in which he works as a makeshift employment manager?
the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company of North America

the Cosmopolitan Telegraph Company

Acme

the Company of Hell
5 In what year was Tropic of Capricorn published in Paris?
1938

1905

1934

1941
6 Where did Miller grow up?
Brooklyn

Paris

Arizona

Mexico
7 Who is the general manager of the company?
Mr. Clancy

Mr. Watkins

Mr. O'Rourke

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

O'Rourke

Hymie

Mr. Clancy
9 Miller has sex with _____
Pauline Janowski

Valeska

Mrs. Costello

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

Balzac

Stendhal

Proust
11 What is the last line of the book?
"It's just us now!"

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

"Today, today..."

"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

Deconstructionists

Dadaists

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

Origin of the Species

Creative Evolution

Creative Control
15 Which Russian writer does Miller praise and write about discovering?
Tolstoy

Gogol

Tarkovsky

Dostoevsky
16 Miller divides his book into how many numbered chapters?
twenty

ten

seven

none
17 What is the name of Miller's cousin, with whom Miller engages in a rock fight with a rival gang of boys?
Greg

Carter

Ruth

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

Shaker

Congregationalist

Unitarian
19 The minister moves to a position in what town?
New Rochelle

Cambridge

Princeton

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

chewing gum

Bibles

votes
21 Miller has an alcoholic Uncle
Neville

Neo

Ned

Nicky
22 Miller describes his sister as a
"mental dwarf"

"heartless girl"

"physical dwarf"

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

Giselle

Marilyn

Norma
24 Miller takes ____ lessons
sax

flute

drum

piano
25 Miller died in
1976

1917

1980

1990

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