The Vivisector Quizzes

The Vivisector Quiz 1

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

Diamond ring

Chandelier

Urn
2 What is Rhoda's fate as predicted by the Planchette?
Wife

Dancer

Woman

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

He's enlisting in the military

He's moving to Paris

He's leaving to become an artist
4 Where does Hurtle move when he first leaves the Courtneys?
New Zealand

Paris

Melbourne

Sydney
5 Who is the person behind Duffield's secret patroness?
Caldicott

Rhoda

Boo Hollingrake

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?
Casablanca

Perialos

Melbourne

Turkey
8 Who is Kathy Volkov's favorite musician?
Lizst

Bach

Rachmaninoff

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

Musician

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?
Assisting a painter

Landscaping

Working in a department store

Dishwashing
12 What plant does Duffield continuously point out seeing in the novel?
Sunflowers

Palm trees

Begonia

Lantana
13 What does Boo Hollingrake say has always been Rhoda's virtue?
A clear vision of the future

An awareness of the reasons for her hysteria

An ability to perceive everything around her

Secret creative genius
14 How many children did the Duffields have?
7

1

3

5
15 Who is Soso?
Kathy Volkov's piano teacher

Rhoda's landlady

Hero and Cosma's quasi-adopted daughter

Hurtle's child
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 face her failure to end vivisection

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
18 Where do the Courtneys have a memorable holiday?
Monaco

St. Sebastian

St. Yves de Tregor

Tuscany
19 Who was Hurtle and Rhoda's governess?
Miss Leighton

Miss Nixon

Miss Gibbons

Miss Tyndall
20 What is the name of Hurtle's painting of Rhoda?
Nance Spreadeagle

Girl in the Window

Forms and Figures

Pythoness at Tripod
21 What street does Duffield live most of his adult life on?
Flint Street

Chubb's Lane

Windsor Street

Prince Way
22 Who is Duffield's protégé?
Cecil Cutbush

Rhoda

Sam Weinstock

Don Lethbridge
23 What is Cecil Cutbush's former job?
Bus driver

Local councilman

Gardener

School headmaster
24 What does Nance say is true of all men?
They are interested in art

They're in love with themselves

They're always thinking about the future

They don't like talking about emotions
25 Why did Caldicott vouch so much for Duffield?
He was in love with him

He couldn't find anyone else

Someone told him he had to put his name behind him

He faced financial pressures to find an ingenue

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