Enduring Love Quizzes

Enduring Love Quiz 1

1 Which Romantic poet does Clarissa study?
Wordsworth

Byron

Keats

Shelley
2 What is the name of the helium balloon's pilot?
James Gadd

Joseph Lacey

Toby Greene

Jed Parry
3 What does Joe say he’s “never seen such a terrible thing as?”
"that rising balloon"

"that screaming child"

"that falling man"

"that drifting balloon"
4 Who is Clarissa in love with, besides Joe?
Professor Kale

John Logan

John Keats

Jed Parry
5 Who wasn’t at the balloon accident?
Joseph Lacey

Toby Green

Jed Parry

Johnny B. Well
6 What is Clarissa looking for on her sabbatical?
John Keats' first novel

John Keats' last letters

A new job

John Keats' birth certificate
7 To which painter's work does Joe compare Logan's face?
Monet

Picasso

Van Gogh

Manet
8 What excuse does Parry give for his arrival at Logan’s body?
Parry's in love with Joe

Clarissa was worried about Joe

They need Joe's help to save the boy

The police want to see Joe
9 When Joe first meets Parry, what is Parry's hair style?
Bowl cut

Buzzcut

Mohawk

Ponytail
10 To what does Joe compare Parry's appearance?
A cat

A hawk

A boxer

An Indian brave
11 To which text does Clarissa compare Logan's fall?
Milton's Paradise Lost

Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

Shakespeare's Hamlet
12 What does Clarissa secretly want?
A science career

Children

A hot air balloon

More money
13 What is Joe's "first serious mistake?"
Taking Clarissa on the picnic

Not telling Clarissa about Parry's phone call

Letting go of the rope

Smilling at Jed Parry after the accident
14 What is Joe's occupation?
Scientist

Newspaper editor

History professor

Science journalist
15 What does Joe want to prove in his article about 19th-century science?
That it was better written

That it used narrative

That it valued structure more than the 20th century

That it was wrong
16 What does Joe see in the library that unnerves him?
A hot air balloon display

Clarissa with another man

A pair of white sneakers with red laces

A picture of John Logan
17 What does Clarissa and Joe's apartment building look like?
A Victorian mansion

A windmill

An ocean liner

A French chateau
18 Whose "beautiful" theory does Joe use to support his argument?
Leonard Euler

Marie Curie

Sigmund Freud

Albert Einstein
19 Where is Parry when he calls Joe?
Down the street

In Parry's house

In the library

In Joe's house
20 What does Joe do to distract himself while Clarissa is having dinner with her brother?
Call Parry

Get drunk

Talk to his professor friend

Write an article on narrative in science
21 How does Clarissa react to the news of Parry's phone call?
She calls the police

She thinks its a joke

She storms out of the house

She accuses Joe of cheating on her
22 Why does Parry think Joe has been sent to him?
So that they can write articles together

So that Clarissa can suffer

So Parry can have a family

So Parry can bring Joe to God
23 What makes Joe quickly drive away from Parry in his taxi?
Parry mentions Clarissa

Parry threatens Joe

Parry tells Joe he loves him

Parry pulls out a gun
24 What does Clarissa call the trend in science towards Neo-Darwinism?
A distorting mirror

The new fundamentalism

Social Darwinism

Aetheistic insanity
25 What do Clarisa and Joe argue about in relation to Neo-Darwinism?
Social evolution

A baby's smile

Narrative in science

Foresight in dogs

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