The Vivisector Quizzes

The Vivisector Quiz 1

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

Mural

Chandelier

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

Novelist

Wife

Woman
3 What reason does Hurtle give Mrs. Courtney for his departure from their house and family as a teenager?
He's enlisting in the military

He's leaving to become an artist

He's returning to his biological family

He's moving to Paris
4 Where does Hurtle move when he first leaves the Courtneys?
Paris

Melbourne

New Zealand

Sydney
5 Who is the person behind Duffield's secret patroness?
Mrs. Courtney

Caldicott

Rhoda

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

London

Tahiti

Peru
7 Where does Hero want to bring Hurtle?
Perialos

Melbourne

Turkey

Casablanca
8 Who is Kathy Volkov's favorite musician?
Mozart

Rachmaninoff

Lizst

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

Playwright

Sculptor

Musician
10 What do Mr. and Mrs. Courtney want Hurtle to call them?
Dad and Mother

Father and Mother Dear

Father and Maman

Papa and Maman
11 What job is Hurtle doing when he meets Nance Lightfoot?
Dishwashing

Landscaping

Working in a department store

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

Lantana

Begonia

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

Secret creative genius

An awareness of the reasons for her hysteria

An ability to perceive everything around her
14 How many children did the Duffields have?
5

3

7

1
15 Who is Soso?
Kathy Volkov's piano teacher

Hero and Cosma's quasi-adopted daughter

Hurtle's child

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

Cats

Cars driving too fast

Kids playing ball
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 carry on without relationships with her children

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

Tuscany

Monaco

St. Sebastian
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?
Windsor Street

Chubb's Lane

Flint Street

Prince Way
22 Who is Duffield's protégé?
Don Lethbridge

Sam Weinstock

Rhoda

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

Local councilman

Bus driver

Gardener
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 faced financial pressures to find an ingenue

He was in love with him

He couldn't find anyone else

Someone told him he had to put his name behind him

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