Enduring Love Quizzes

Enduring Love Quiz 1

1 Which Romantic poet does Clarissa study?
Wordsworth

Keats

Byron

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

Jed Parry

Toby Greene

Joseph Lacey
3 What does Joe say he’s “never seen such a terrible thing as?”
"that screaming child"

"that drifting balloon"

"that rising balloon"

"that falling man"
4 Who is Clarissa in love with, besides Joe?
John Logan

Jed Parry

John Keats

Professor Kale
5 Who wasn’t at the balloon accident?
Jed Parry

Toby Green

Joseph Lacey

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?
Van Gogh

Monet

Picasso

Manet
8 What excuse does Parry give for his arrival at Logan’s body?
The police want to see Joe

Parry's in love with Joe

They need Joe's help to save the boy

Clarissa was worried about Joe
9 When Joe first meets Parry, what is Parry's hair style?
Bowl cut

Mohawk

Buzzcut

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

A hawk

An Indian brave

A cat
11 To which text does Clarissa compare Logan's fall?
Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

Milton's Paradise Lost

Shakespeare's Hamlet
12 What does Clarissa secretly want?
A hot air balloon

More money

A science career

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

Smilling at Jed Parry after the accident

Not telling Clarissa about Parry's phone call

Letting go of the rope
14 What is Joe's occupation?
History professor

Science journalist

Newspaper editor

Scientist
15 What does Joe want to prove in his article about 19th-century science?
That it valued structure more than the 20th century

That it was wrong

That it used narrative

That it was better written
16 What does Joe see in the library that unnerves him?
A pair of white sneakers with red laces

Clarissa with another man

A hot air balloon display

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

An ocean liner

A windmill

A Victorian mansion
18 Whose "beautiful" theory does Joe use to support his argument?
Sigmund Freud

Marie Curie

Albert Einstein

Leonard Euler
19 Where is Parry when he calls Joe?
In Parry's house

In Joe's house

Down the street

In the library
20 What does Joe do to distract himself while Clarissa is having dinner with her brother?
Talk to his professor friend

Call Parry

Get drunk

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 Parry can have a family

So Parry can bring Joe to God

So that Clarissa can suffer
23 What makes Joe quickly drive away from Parry in his taxi?
Parry mentions Clarissa

Parry tells Joe he loves him

Parry pulls out a gun

Parry threatens Joe
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?
Foresight in dogs

Social evolution

A baby's smile

Narrative in science

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