Waiting for the Barbarians Quizzes

Waiting for the Barbarians Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Waiting for the Barbarians?
Nadine Gordimer

Stephen Biko

George Orwell

J.M. Coetzee
2 Where is Coetzee from?
Australia

South Africa

Zimbabwe

England
3 When was Waiting for the Barbarians first published?
1992

1980

1970

2002
4 Where is Waiting for the Barbarians set?
Australia

Botswana

South Africa

The setting is undefined
5 Who is Colonel Joll?
A retired Colonel who visits the outpost

A member of the Third Bureau

A pacifist

The leader of the Empire
6 What is Joll's main feature?
His black sunglasses

His deep whisper

His cane

His long fingernails
7 What does Joll ride in?
An open wagon

A Cadillac

A horse

A black carriage
8 How would you characterize Joll?
A moderate bureaucrat

A sadistic torture master

A fair minded servant of the Empire

A drunk
9 Who is the magistrate?
A pacifist

The narrator who runs the outpost

The man who openly opposes Joll throughout the novel

An obedient servant of the Third Bureau
10 How does the magistrate first receive Joll?
He is submissive

He welcomes him to the town

He is cold

He argues with him
11 What is the Third Bureau?
A mercenary army

A census bureau

An police agency with special powers

A housing bureau
12 Who does Joll first torture under the magistrate's watch?
A person from the village

The nomad woman

A grandfather and grandson who were already in the cell

The fisher people
13 What happens after Joll visits the cell of his first torture victims?
The grandson dies

The grandfather dies and he takes the boy as a guide

They are let free

He kills them all
14 How would you characterize the magistrate's behavior during Joll's interrogations?
Anger

Obliviousness

Subservience

Denial
15 Where has Joll come from when he first visits?
The capital

The mountains

Overseas

The desert
16 How long has it been since the magistrate visited the capital?
Many years

A year

He has never seen the capital. He was born in his village

He goes monthly
17 What does Joll say about the effects of torture as a method of gathering information?
There's a tone of truth that he is attuned to hearing

There's no such thing as truth

It's the best way to get the truth

It's simply a means of intimidation
18 What does the magistrate do when Joll leaves the first time?
He sends a complaint to the capital

He washes himself but he can't feel clean

He goes to drink at the inn

He orders his men to wash out the prison cell
19 Who are the first prisoners that Joll send back to the outpost?
Fisher people

Nomad warriors

The nomad woman and her father

Men with wire looped through their cheeks and palms
20 How does the magistrate first notice the nomad woman?
He notices her blinded eyes

He notices her in the yard with her father

He sees her begging

She asks him for a room
21 In what ways is nomad woman crippled?
Her legs are broken at the ankles and she's blind

She is paralyzed and deaf

She has PTSD

Her tongue has been cut out
22 What reason doe the magistrate give for taking the woman in?
He says that he's attracted to her

He says he wants to help her

He says she can't be begging in the streets

He says that he wants to make up for what Joll did
23 What does the magistrate do when he first brings the woman in?
He gives her a room of her own

He lets her sleep

He washes her ankles

He asks her about herself
24 What happens to the magistrate when he washes the woman?
He feels repulsed

He falls in love

He falls asleep

He feels attracted to her
25 How does the magistrate feel after the woman finally tells her what Joll and the torturers did?
He falls in love with her

He wants to comfort her and make her feel safe

He is repulsed by her

He wants to understand why they felt she deserved such treatment

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