Waiting for the Barbarians Quizzes

Waiting for the Barbarians Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Waiting for the Barbarians?
Nadine Gordimer

Stephen Biko

J.M. Coetzee

George Orwell
2 Where is Coetzee from?
South Africa

Australia

Zimbabwe

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

1980

2002

1970
4 Where is Waiting for the Barbarians set?
Australia

The setting is undefined

South Africa

Botswana
5 Who is Colonel Joll?
A retired Colonel who visits the outpost

The leader of the Empire

A pacifist

A member of the Third Bureau
6 What is Joll's main feature?
His long fingernails

His cane

His deep whisper

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

A Cadillac

An open wagon

A black carriage
8 How would you characterize Joll?
A drunk

A moderate bureaucrat

A fair minded servant of the Empire

A sadistic torture master
9 Who is the magistrate?
A pacifist

An obedient servant of the Third Bureau

The narrator who runs the outpost

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

He is submissive

He is cold

He welcomes him to the town
11 What is the Third Bureau?
A census bureau

A mercenary army

An police agency with special powers

A housing bureau
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 grandfather dies and he takes the boy as a guide

He kills them all

They are let free

The grandson dies
14 How would you characterize the magistrate's behavior during Joll's interrogations?
Anger

Obliviousness

Denial

Subservience
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?
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?
It's simply a means of intimidation

There's no such thing as truth

It's the best way to get the truth

There's a tone of truth that he is attuned to hearing
18 What does the magistrate do when Joll leaves the first time?
He washes himself but he can't feel clean

He orders his men to wash out the prison cell

He goes to drink at the inn

He sends a complaint to the capital
19 Who are the first prisoners that Joll send back to the outpost?
Men with wire looped through their cheeks and palms

Nomad warriors

Fisher people

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

He notices her in the yard with her father

She asks him for a room

He notices her blinded eyes
21 In what ways is nomad woman crippled?
Her tongue has been cut out

She is paralyzed and deaf

Her legs are broken at the ankles and she's blind

She has PTSD
22 What reason doe the magistrate give for taking the woman in?
He says he wants to help her

He says that he wants to make up for what Joll did

He says that he's attracted to her

He says she can't be begging in the streets
23 What does the magistrate do when he first brings the woman in?
He washes her ankles

He asks her about herself

He gives her a room of her own

He lets her sleep
24 What happens to the magistrate when he washes the woman?
He falls asleep

He feels repulsed

He feels attracted to her

He falls in love
25 How does the magistrate feel after the woman finally tells her what Joll and the torturers did?
He is repulsed by her

He falls in love with her

He wants to comfort her and make her feel safe

He wants to understand why they felt she deserved such treatment

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