The Vivisector Quizzes

The Vivisector Quiz 1

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

Mural

Urn

Chandelier
2 What is Rhoda's fate as predicted by the Planchette?
Dancer

Novelist

Woman

Wife
3 What reason does Hurtle give Mrs. Courtney for his departure from their house and family as a teenager?
He's leaving to become an artist

He's moving to Paris

He's enlisting in the military

He's returning to his biological family
4 Where does Hurtle move when he first leaves the Courtneys?
Sydney

Paris

Melbourne

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

Boo Hollingrake

Mrs. Courtney

Caldicott
6 Where was Boo Hollingrake living in the years before she returned to Australia?
New York

London

Peru

Tahiti
7 Where does Hero want to bring Hurtle?
Melbourne

Turkey

Casablanca

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

Lizst

Bach

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

Sculptor

Novelist

Musician
10 What do Mr. and Mrs. Courtney want Hurtle to call them?
Father and Maman

Papa and Maman

Dad and Mother

Father and Mother Dear
11 What job is Hurtle doing when he meets Nance Lightfoot?
Working in a department store

Dishwashing

Assisting a painter

Landscaping
12 What plant does Duffield continuously point out seeing in the novel?
Lantana

Sunflowers

Begonia

Palm trees
13 What does Boo Hollingrake say has always been Rhoda's virtue?
An awareness of the reasons for her hysteria

A clear vision of the future

An ability to perceive everything around her

Secret creative genius
14 How many children did the Duffields have?
1

3

7

5
15 Who is Soso?
Hurtle's child

Kathy Volkov's piano teacher

Rhoda's landlady

Hero and Cosma's quasi-adopted daughter
16 What is Rhoda yelling at when Hurtle encounters her after many years have passed?
Kids playing ball

Cats

Cars driving too fast

The moon
17 What does Rhoda say was the reason for Maman's death?
She felt it wasn't worth living without the inessentials

She felt she failed Hurtle and Rhoda

She couldn't face her failure to end vivisection

She couldn't carry on without relationships with her children
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 Nixon

Miss Gibbons

Miss Tyndall

Miss Leighton
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?
Prince Way

Flint Street

Chubb's Lane

Windsor Street
22 Who is Duffield's protégé?
Cecil Cutbush

Sam Weinstock

Don Lethbridge

Rhoda
23 What is Cecil Cutbush's former job?
Local councilman

Bus driver

Gardener

School headmaster
24 What does Nance say is true of all men?
They don't like talking about emotions

They're always thinking about the future

They're in love with themselves

They are interested in art
25 Why did Caldicott vouch so much for Duffield?
He couldn't find anyone else

Someone told him he had to put his name behind him

He was in love with him

He faced financial pressures to find an ingenue

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