The Vivisector Quizzes

The Vivisector Quiz 1

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

Mural

Urn

Diamond ring
2 What is Rhoda's fate as predicted by the Planchette?
Woman

Novelist

Wife

Dancer
3 What reason does Hurtle give Mrs. Courtney for his departure from their house and family as a teenager?
He's moving to Paris

He's leaving to become an artist

He's returning to his biological family

He's enlisting in the military
4 Where does Hurtle move when he first leaves the Courtneys?
Sydney

Melbourne

Paris

New Zealand
5 Who is the person behind Duffield's secret patroness?
Boo Hollingrake

Rhoda

Caldicott

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

Tahiti

London

New York
7 Where does Hero want to bring Hurtle?
Turkey

Casablanca

Melbourne

Perialos
8 Who is Kathy Volkov's favorite musician?
Rachmaninoff

Mozart

Bach

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

Playwright

Novelist

Sculptor
10 What do Mr. and Mrs. Courtney want Hurtle to call them?
Father and Mother Dear

Dad and Mother

Father and Maman

Papa and Maman
11 What job is Hurtle doing when he meets Nance Lightfoot?
Working in a department store

Dishwashing

Landscaping

Assisting a painter
12 What plant does Duffield continuously point out seeing in the novel?
Begonia

Sunflowers

Lantana

Palm trees
13 What does Boo Hollingrake say has always been Rhoda's virtue?
Secret creative genius

A clear vision of the future

An ability to perceive everything around her

An awareness of the reasons for her hysteria
14 How many children did the Duffields have?
1

3

5

7
15 Who is Soso?
Hero and Cosma's quasi-adopted daughter

Rhoda's landlady

Hurtle's child

Kathy Volkov's piano teacher
16 What is Rhoda yelling at when Hurtle encounters her after many years have passed?
The moon

Cars driving too fast

Kids playing ball

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 felt it wasn't worth living without the inessentials

She couldn't face her failure to end vivisection
18 Where do the Courtneys have a memorable holiday?
St. Yves de Tregor

Monaco

St. Sebastian

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

Forms and Figures

Pythoness at Tripod

Nance Spreadeagle
21 What street does Duffield live most of his adult life on?
Chubb's Lane

Windsor Street

Prince Way

Flint Street
22 Who is Duffield's protégé?
Don Lethbridge

Rhoda

Cecil Cutbush

Sam Weinstock
23 What is Cecil Cutbush's former job?
School headmaster

Gardener

Local councilman

Bus driver
24 What does Nance say is true of all men?
They're always thinking about the future

They don't like talking about emotions

They are interested in art

They're in love with themselves
25 Why did Caldicott vouch so much for Duffield?
He couldn't find anyone else

He was in love with him

Someone told him he had to put his name behind him

He faced financial pressures to find an ingenue

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