The Vivisector Quizzes

The Vivisector Quiz 1

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

Mural

Diamond ring

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

Wife

Novelist

Woman
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 enlisting in the military

He's returning to his biological family

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

Melbourne

Paris

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

Mrs. Courtney

Rhoda

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

Peru

New York

Tahiti
7 Where does Hero want to bring Hurtle?
Melbourne

Turkey

Casablanca

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

Rachmaninoff

Bach

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

Sculptor

Playwright

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

Papa and Maman

Father and Mother Dear

Dad and Mother
11 What job is Hurtle doing when he meets Nance Lightfoot?
Landscaping

Dishwashing

Assisting a painter

Working in a department store
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?
A clear vision of the future

An ability to perceive everything around her

Secret creative genius

An awareness of the reasons for her hysteria
14 How many children did the Duffields have?
7

1

3

5
15 Who is Soso?
Hero and Cosma's quasi-adopted daughter

Kathy Volkov's piano teacher

Rhoda's landlady

Hurtle's child
16 What is Rhoda yelling at when Hurtle encounters her after many years have passed?
Kids playing ball

Cars driving too fast

The moon

Cats
17 What does Rhoda say was the reason for Maman's death?
She couldn't carry on without relationships with her children

She felt she failed Hurtle and Rhoda

She couldn't face her failure to end vivisection

She felt it wasn't worth living without the inessentials
18 Where do the Courtneys have a memorable holiday?
Monaco

Tuscany

St. Yves de Tregor

St. Sebastian
19 Who was Hurtle and Rhoda's governess?
Miss Gibbons

Miss Tyndall

Miss Nixon

Miss Leighton
20 What is the name of Hurtle's painting of Rhoda?
Pythoness at Tripod

Girl in the Window

Nance Spreadeagle

Forms and Figures
21 What street does Duffield live most of his adult life on?
Windsor Street

Prince Way

Chubb's Lane

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

Don Lethbridge

Sam Weinstock

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

School headmaster

Local councilman

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

They are interested in art

They're always thinking about the future

They're in love with themselves
25 Why did Caldicott vouch so much for Duffield?
He couldn't find anyone else

He was in love with him

Someone told him he had to put his name behind him

He faced financial pressures to find an ingenue

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