V. Quizzes

V. Quiz 1

1 What word does Benny Profane regularly use to describe himself?
"Alter Kocker"

"Schlemihl"

"Oedipal"

"Nimrod"
2 In what era is the present action set?
The 1990s

The 1920s

The 1960s

The 1950s
3 Which characteristics best describe Pig Bodine?
Temperamental and violent

Obscene and debauched

Doddering and kaput

Cool but caring
4 From who are Pig Bodine, Paola, and Profane fleeing in Chapter 1?
Immigration Control

The Shore Patrol

Pappy Hod

Rachel Owlglass
5 Who calls "every bus station in the country" to reach Benny Profane?
Fina Mendoza

Vera Meroving

Herbert Stencil

Rachel Owlglass
6 Where does Benny Profane first find home after returning to New York?
In Teflon's apartment

In Rachel Owlglass's apartment

In the sewers

In the Mendoza family's apartment
7 What does Rachel see in the mirror of Dr. Schoenmaker's waiting room?
A lay figure

A clock

A cheese danish

A blood stain
8 After visiting Dr. Schoenmaker, Rachel describes the world as a chain of _________.
Screwers and Screwees

Flippers and floppers

Princes and Serfs

Oral Fixaters and Phallic Fixaters
9 What is the group-name of the New York artists in which Pig Bodine, Paola, and Profane find community?
The Whole Sick Crew

The V-Note

The Playboys

The Decky-Dancers
10 Who is investigating V.?
Roony Winsome

Herbert Stencil

Benny Profane

Rachel Owlglass
11 Which historical event serves as backdrop to Chapter 3?
The Suez Crisis

The Herero Genocide

World War II

The Fashoda Incident
12 Who is assassinated in Egypt, at the end of Chapter 3?
Sidney Stencil

Bongo-Shaftsbury

Porpentine

Victoria Wren
13 On what part of Esther's body does Dr. Schoenmaker operate?
Her eye

Her nose

Her breasts

Her achilles tendon
14 Who does Dr. Schoenmaker idolize, while serving as a greasemonkey in World War I?
Woodrow Wilson

Evan Godolphin

Paola Maijstral

Victoria Wren
15 What is Benny Profane employed to do, while working in the sewers of New York?
Monitor the security cameras

Interview vagrants

Proselytize to rats

Hunt alligators
16 Who, apocryphally, lived in the Manhattan sewers?
Pig Bodine

Dr. Schoenmaker

Dr. Eigenvalue

Father Fairing
17 What is the name of Mafia Winsome's literary theory?
Heroic Love

Set/Reset

Catatonic Expressionism

Yo-yo Hypothesis
18 What does Benny Profane worry will happen to Fina Mendoza?
She will be assaulted by a local gang

She will lose interest in him if they sleep together

She will be evicted from her apartment

She will grow addicted to yo-yoing
19 Who, of the following, is NOT sexually interested in Paola Maijstral?
Benny Profane

Pig Bodine

Pappy Hod

Roony Winsome
20 Who says: "Benny. How is the pimping business, hyeugh hyeugh" (p. 14)?
Roony Winsome

Angel Mendoza

Dewey Gland

Pig Bodine
21 Who tells Benny Profane: "Write […] How the road is. Your boy's road that I'll never see, with its Diesels and dust, roadhouses, crossroads saloons […] Places I won't know" (p. 27)?
Fina Mendoza

Esther Harvitz

Paola Maijstral

Rachel Owlglass
22 Who says: "Am I altering that grand unbroken chain, no […] Individuals do what they want, but the chain goes on and small forces like me will never prevail against it" (p. 48)?
Herbert Stencil

Mafia Winsome

Bongo-Shaftsbury

Dr. Schoenmaker
23 Who writes: “There is more behind and inside V. than any of us had suspected. Not who, but what: what is she. God grant that I may never called upon to write the answer, either here or in any official report" (p. 53)?
Dr. Eigenvalue

Bongo-Shaftsbury

Sidney Stencil

Herbert Stencil
24 Who says: “If I was God… " He pointed at an SP [Shore Patrol]; "Zap, SP, your ass has had it" (p. 31)
Benny Profane

Ploy

Pig Bodine

Herbert Stencil
25 Who says: “V. has expressed a desire to be a sister. I explained to her that to date there is no recognized order for which she would be eligible. She will talk to some of the other girls to see if there is interest widespread enough to require action on my part. It would mean a letter to the Bishop. And my Latin is so wretched…" (p. 121)
Father Fairing

Hugh Godolphin

Sidney Stencil

Herbert Stencil

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