Waiting for the Barbarians Quizzes

Waiting for the Barbarians Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Waiting for the Barbarians?
George Orwell

Stephen Biko

Nadine Gordimer

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

Zimbabwe

South Africa

England
3 When was Waiting for the Barbarians first published?
1970

2002

1992

1980
4 Where is Waiting for the Barbarians set?
The setting is undefined

Australia

Botswana

South Africa
5 Who is Colonel Joll?
A member of the Third Bureau

The leader of the Empire

A retired Colonel who visits the outpost

A pacifist
6 What is Joll's main feature?
His deep whisper

His long fingernails

His cane

His black sunglasses
7 What does Joll ride in?
A horse

A black carriage

An open wagon

A Cadillac
8 How would you characterize Joll?
A sadistic torture master

A drunk

A moderate bureaucrat

A fair minded servant of the Empire
9 Who is the magistrate?
The narrator who runs the outpost

An obedient servant of the Third Bureau

A pacifist

The man who openly opposes Joll throughout the novel
10 How does the magistrate first receive Joll?
He argues with him

He welcomes him to the town

He is cold

He is submissive
11 What is the Third Bureau?
A census bureau

A housing bureau

An police agency with special powers

A mercenary army
12 Who does Joll first torture under the magistrate's watch?
The nomad woman

The fisher people

A grandfather and grandson who were already in the cell

A person from the village
13 What happens after Joll visits the cell of his first torture victims?
The grandson dies

They are let free

He kills them all

The grandfather dies and he takes the boy as a guide
14 How would you characterize the magistrate's behavior during Joll's interrogations?
Anger

Denial

Obliviousness

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

The desert

Overseas

The mountains
16 How long has it been since the magistrate visited the capital?
He has never seen the capital. He was born in his village

A year

He goes monthly

Many years
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

It's the best way to get the truth

There's no such thing as 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 orders his men to wash out the prison cell

He goes to drink at the inn

He washes himself but he can't feel clean
19 Who are the first prisoners that Joll send back to the outpost?
Fisher people

Nomad warriors

Men with wire looped through their cheeks and palms

The nomad woman and her father
20 How does the magistrate first notice the nomad woman?
He sees her begging

She asks him for a room

He notices her blinded eyes

He notices her in the yard with her father
21 In what ways is nomad woman crippled?
Her tongue has been cut out

She has PTSD

She is paralyzed and deaf

Her legs are broken at the ankles and she's blind
22 What reason doe the magistrate give for taking the woman in?
He says he wants to help her

He says that he's attracted to 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 lets her sleep

He gives her a room of her own

He asks her about herself

He washes her ankles
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 is repulsed by her

He wants to comfort her and make her feel safe

He wants to understand why they felt she deserved such treatment

He falls in love with her

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