V. Quizzes

V. Quiz 1

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

"Alter Kocker"

"Schlemihl"

"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?
Cool but caring

Doddering and kaput

Obscene and debauched

Temperamental and violent
4 From who are Pig Bodine, Paola, and Profane fleeing in Chapter 1?
The Shore Patrol

Rachel Owlglass

Pappy Hod

Immigration Control
5 Who calls "every bus station in the country" to reach Benny Profane?
Vera Meroving

Fina Mendoza

Rachel Owlglass

Herbert Stencil
6 Where does Benny Profane first find home after returning to New York?
In the Mendoza family's apartment

In Rachel Owlglass's apartment

In the sewers

In Teflon's apartment
7 What does Rachel see in the mirror of Dr. Schoenmaker's waiting room?
A clock

A blood stain

A lay figure

A cheese danish
8 After visiting Dr. Schoenmaker, Rachel describes the world as a chain of _________.
Flippers and floppers

Princes and Serfs

Oral Fixaters and Phallic Fixaters

Screwers and Screwees
9 What is the group-name of the New York artists in which Pig Bodine, Paola, and Profane find community?
The V-Note

The Playboys

The Decky-Dancers

The Whole Sick Crew
10 Who is investigating V.?
Rachel Owlglass

Herbert Stencil

Roony Winsome

Benny Profane
11 Which historical event serves as backdrop to Chapter 3?
The Fashoda Incident

World War II

The Suez Crisis

The Herero Genocide
12 Who is assassinated in Egypt, at the end of Chapter 3?
Victoria Wren

Sidney Stencil

Porpentine

Bongo-Shaftsbury
13 On what part of Esther's body does Dr. Schoenmaker operate?
Her nose

Her achilles tendon

Her eye

Her breasts
14 Who does Dr. Schoenmaker idolize, while serving as a greasemonkey in World War I?
Paola Maijstral

Victoria Wren

Evan Godolphin

Woodrow Wilson
15 What is Benny Profane employed to do, while working in the sewers of New York?
Proselytize to rats

Interview vagrants

Monitor the security cameras

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

Yo-yo Hypothesis

Catatonic Expressionism
18 What does Benny Profane worry will happen to Fina Mendoza?
She will grow addicted to yo-yoing

She will lose interest in him if they sleep together

She will be assaulted by a local gang

She will be evicted from her apartment
19 Who, of the following, is NOT sexually interested in Paola Maijstral?
Roony Winsome

Pig Bodine

Benny Profane

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

Pig Bodine

Dewey Gland

Angel Mendoza
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)?
Rachel Owlglass

Paola Maijstral

Fina Mendoza

Esther Harvitz
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)?
Mafia Winsome

Dr. Schoenmaker

Herbert Stencil

Bongo-Shaftsbury
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)?
Bongo-Shaftsbury

Herbert Stencil

Sidney Stencil

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

Pig Bodine

Benny Profane

Ploy
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

Herbert Stencil

Hugh Godolphin

Sidney Stencil

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