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Chapters
1. |
In The Vivisector, we see the protagonist Hurtle Duffield exploiting what for his art? |
A. | His friends |
B. | Money |
C. | His parents |
D. | Women |
Answer» D. Women |
2. |
On a trip to England, Alfreda Courtney is horrified to find the vivisection of what? |
A. | A child |
B. | A dog |
C. | A cat |
D. | A horse |
Answer» B. A dog |
3. |
What deformity does Rhoda Courtney have? |
A. | Hunchback |
B. | Blind |
C. | Crippled |
D. | Scars |
Answer» A. Hunchback |
4. |
What is the name of the girl who lives next to the Courtneys who happens to be quite the match for Hurtle on the subject of manipulation? |
A. | Nance Lightfoot |
B. | Hero Pavloussi |
C. | KathyVolkov |
D. | Olivia Davenport |
Answer» C. KathyVolkov |
5. |
At the end of the novel, The Vivisector, what happens to Hurtle Duffield? |
A. | He accepts a knighthood and regained wealth |
B. | He teaches his protégé everything he knows |
C. | He reconciles with his family |
D. | He dies with a paintbrush in his hand |
Answer» D. He dies with a paintbrush in his hand |
6. |
The sole passion of Hurtle Duffield was |
A. | art |
B. | women |
C. | reading |
D. | travelling |
Answer» A. art |
7. |
Who was born a hunchbacked female in The Vivisector? |
A. | Katherine Volkov |
B. | Rhoda Courtney |
C. | Alfreda Courtney |
D. | Hero Pavloussi |
Answer» B. Rhoda Courtney |
8. |
Hurtle Duffield was born into a ________ Australian family. |
A. | middle-class |
B. | bourgeois |
C. | working class |
D. | high-class |
Answer» C. working class |
9. |
For the first time, Hurtle Duffield meets a woman in the streets by the name of – |
A. | Hero Pavloussi |
B. | Katherine Volkov |
C. | Alfreda Courtney |
D. | Nance Lightfoot |
Answer» D. Nance Lightfoot |
10. |
Hero Pavloussi was the wife of a / an – |
A. | Australian merchant |
B. | Greek merchant |
C. | European merchant |
D. | American merchant |
Answer» B. Greek merchant |
11. |
Hurtle Duffield and Hero Pavloussi went on a pilgrimage to the sacred Island of Perialos in the |
A. | Aegean Sea |
B. | Arabian Sea |
C. | Ionian Sea |
D. | Mediterranean Sea |
Answer» A. Aegean Sea |
12. |
In the start of Disgrace, the age of David Lurie was |
A. | thirty- seven |
B. | forty - two |
C. | fifty - two |
D. | fifty- seven |
Answer» C. fifty - two |
13. |
The Courtneys adopt Hurtle Duffield to be Rhoda’s _____ |
A. | servant |
B. | tutor |
C. | companion |
D. | competitor |
Answer» C. companion |
14. |
Hurtle’s greatest painting is called |
A. | the Magnum Opus |
B. | The Homage |
C. | Rhoda |
D. | The Vivisector |
Answer» D. The Vivisector |
15. |
The Vivisector was published in |
A. | 1970 |
B. | 1960 |
C. | 1950 |
D. | 1940 |
Answer» A. 1970 |
16. |
______ is a manipulative woman who also plays the piano. |
A. | Rhoda Courtney |
B. | Kathy Volkov |
C. | Hero Pavloussi |
D. | Alfreda Courtney |
Answer» B. Kathy Volkov |
17. |
Hurtle’s first love is _____, a prostitute. |
A. | Kathy |
B. | Hero |
C. | Nance |
D. | Olivia |
Answer» C. Nance |
18. |
After his stroke, Hurtle becomes partially |
A. | blind |
B. | paralysed |
C. | deaf |
D. | amnesiac |
Answer» B. paralysed |
19. |
Hurtle enlists into the army during |
A. | World War I |
B. | World War II |
C. | The Spanish War |
D. | the Korean War |
Answer» A. World War I |
20. |
Hurtle has a series of affairs with women he cannot love because |
A. | all these women are ugly |
B. | he is afraid falling in love would be too consuming |
C. | he enjoys the company of many women |
D. | he cannot settle for just one woman |
Answer» B. he is afraid falling in love would be too consuming |
21. |
Hurtle’s inspiration for his art was |
A. | the chaos of World War I |
B. | his poverty-ridden childhood |
C. | his many lovers |
D. | other great artists |
Answer» C. his many lovers |
22. |
Nance Lightfoot dies when she |
A. | is killed by a gunman |
B. | meets with a traffic accident |
C. | falls to the rocks below Hurtle’s shack |
D. | poisoned by Hurtle’s mother |
Answer» C. falls to the rocks below Hurtle’s shack |
23. |
Hurtle completes his masterpiece with the help of his protégé, |
A. | Hero Pavloussi |
B. | Cecil Cutbush |
C. | Boo Hollingrake |
D. | Don Lethbridge |
Answer» D. Don Lethbridge |
24. |
The Vivisector was awarded the _____ in 1973. |
A. | Pulitzer Prize |
B. | Nobel Prize |
C. | Booker Prize |
D. | Reader’s Choice |
Answer» B. Nobel Prize |
25. |
The word, ‘vivisection’ means |
A. | dissection while still alive |
B. | stuffed and preserved after death |
C. | dissection after death |
D. | tortured to death |
Answer» A. dissection while still alive |
26. |
After seeing the vivisected dog, Alfreda comments that “There’s nothing so inhuman as a _____”. |
A. | dog |
B. | vivisectionist |
C. | human being |
D. | man |
Answer» C. human being |
27. |
Hurtle was _____ from his real parents by the Courtneys. |
A. | stolen |
B. | bought |
C. | kidnapped |
D. | taken by force |
Answer» B. bought |
28. |
Hurtle Duffield was sold for _____ pounds to the Courtneys by his parents. |
A. | 1000 |
B. | 100 |
C. | 750 |
D. | 500 |
Answer» D. 500 |
29. |
Hurtle Duffield suffered _____ towards the end of his life. |
A. | a heart attack |
B. | a stroke |
C. | a vehicle accident |
D. | a fall |
Answer» B. a stroke |
30. |
The Vivisector is written by |
A. | Patrick White |
B. | Alan Paton |
C. | Chinua Echebe |
D. | V.S. Naipaul |
Answer» A. Patrick White |
31. |
White dedicates his novel The Vivisector to Sidney Nolan, a ____ |
A. | vivisectionist |
B. | painter |
C. | politician |
D. | writer |
Answer» B. painter |
32. |
Nance Lightfoot is a |
A. | secretary |
B. | Greek heiress |
C. | painter |
D. | prostitute |
Answer» D. prostitute |
33. |
Hurtle’s mother becomes acquainted with the Courtneys when she does _____ for them. |
A. | housekeeping |
B. | gardening |
C. | laundry |
D. | cooking |
Answer» C. laundry |
34. |
Rhoda was initially very ______ towards Hurtle when he was first adopted by her parents. |
A. | puzzled |
B. | curious |
C. | resentful |
D. | affectionate |
Answer» C. resentful |
35. |
Alfreda accuses Hurtle of being born with _____ in his hands, and his eyes. |
A. | a knife |
B. | a gleam of greed |
C. | a glitter |
D. | a spoon |
Answer» A. a knife |
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