V. Quizzes

V. Quiz 1

By Jackson Kientiz · Last reviewed September 21, 2022

1 What word does Benny Profane regularly use to describe himself?

"Nimrod"

"Alter Kocker"

"Schlemihl"

"Oedipal"
2 In what era is the present action set?

The 1990s

The 1960s

The 1950s

The 1920s
3 Which characteristics best describe Pig Bodine?

Cool but caring

Doddering and kaput

Obscene and debauched

Temperamental and violent
4 From who are Pig Bodine, Paola, and Profane fleeing in Chapter 1?

Rachel Owlglass

Immigration Control

The Shore Patrol

Pappy Hod
5 Who calls "every bus station in the country" to reach Benny Profane?

Fina Mendoza

Rachel Owlglass

Herbert Stencil

Vera Meroving
6 Where does Benny Profane first find home after returning to New York?

In the sewers

In Rachel Owlglass's apartment

In the Mendoza family's apartment

In Teflon's apartment
7 What does Rachel see in the mirror of Dr. Schoenmaker's waiting room?

A blood stain

A lay figure

A clock

A cheese danish
8 After visiting Dr. Schoenmaker, Rachel describes the world as a chain of _________.

Screwers and Screwees

Princes and Serfs

Flippers and floppers

Oral Fixaters and Phallic Fixaters
9 What is the group-name of the New York artists in which Pig Bodine, Paola, and Profane find community?

The Whole Sick Crew

The Decky-Dancers

The V-Note

The Playboys
10 Who is investigating V.?

Rachel Owlglass

Roony Winsome

Benny Profane

Herbert Stencil
11 Which historical event serves as backdrop to Chapter 3?

The Suez Crisis

The Herero Genocide

World War II

The Fashoda Incident
12 Who is assassinated in Egypt, at the end of Chapter 3?

Sidney Stencil

Porpentine

Bongo-Shaftsbury

Victoria Wren
13 On what part of Esther's body does Dr. Schoenmaker operate?

Her nose

Her eye

Her achilles tendon

Her breasts
14 Who does Dr. Schoenmaker idolize, while serving as a greasemonkey in World War I?

Paola Maijstral

Evan Godolphin

Woodrow Wilson

Victoria Wren
15 What is Benny Profane employed to do, while working in the sewers of New York?

Monitor the security cameras

Hunt alligators

Proselytize to rats

Interview vagrants
16 Who, apocryphally, lived in the Manhattan sewers?

Dr. Eigenvalue

Father Fairing

Pig Bodine

Dr. Schoenmaker
17 What is the name of Mafia Winsome's literary theory?

Set/Reset

Heroic Love

Yo-yo Hypothesis

Catatonic Expressionism
18 What does Benny Profane worry will happen to Fina Mendoza?

She will grow addicted to yo-yoing

She will lose interest in him if they sleep together

She will be assaulted by a local gang

She will be evicted from her apartment
19 Who, of the following, is NOT sexually interested in Paola Maijstral?

Benny Profane

Pappy Hod

Roony Winsome

Pig Bodine
20 Who says: "Benny. How is the pimping business, hyeugh hyeugh" (p. 14)?

Angel Mendoza

Roony Winsome

Dewey Gland

Pig Bodine
21 Who tells Benny Profane: "Write […] How the road is. Your boy's road that I'll never see, with its Diesels and dust, roadhouses, crossroads saloons […] Places I won't know" (p. 27)?

Paola Maijstral

Rachel Owlglass

Fina Mendoza

Esther Harvitz
22 Who says: "Am I altering that grand unbroken chain, no […] Individuals do what they want, but the chain goes on and small forces like me will never prevail against it" (p. 48)?

Dr. Schoenmaker

Herbert Stencil

Mafia Winsome

Bongo-Shaftsbury
23 Who writes: “There is more behind and inside V. than any of us had suspected. Not who, but what: what is she. God grant that I may never called upon to write the answer, either here or in any official report" (p. 53)?

Herbert Stencil

Sidney Stencil

Bongo-Shaftsbury

Dr. Eigenvalue
24 Who says: “If I was God… " He pointed at an SP [Shore Patrol]; "Zap, SP, your ass has had it" (p. 31)

Herbert Stencil

Ploy

Benny Profane

Pig Bodine
25 Who says: “V. has expressed a desire to be a sister. I explained to her that to date there is no recognized order for which she would be eligible. She will talk to some of the other girls to see if there is interest widespread enough to require action on my part. It would mean a letter to the Bishop. And my Latin is so wretched…" (p. 121)

Hugh Godolphin

Herbert Stencil

Sidney Stencil

Father Fairing

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