Deck 4: The Vivisector - Patrick White

Question 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 1

Women

Question 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 2

A dog

Question 3

What deformity does Rhoda Courtney have?

A)Hunchback
B)Blind
C)Crippled
D)Scars

Answer 3

Hunchback

Question 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

Question 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

Question 6

The sole passion of Hurtle Duffield was

A)art
B)women
C)reading
D)travelling

Question 7

Who was born a hunchbacked female in The Vivisector?

A)Katherine Volkov
B)Rhoda Courtney
C)Alfreda Courtney
D)Hero Pavloussi

Question 8

Hurtle Duffield was born into a ________ Australian family.

A)middle-class
B)bourgeois
C)working class
D)high-class

Question 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

Question 10

Hero Pavloussi was the wife of a / an -

A)Australian merchant
B)Greek merchant
C)European merchant
D)American merchant

Question 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

Question 12

In the start of Disgrace, the age of David Lurie was

A)thirty- seven
B)forty - two
C)fifty - two
D)fifty- seven

Question 13

The Courtneys adopt Hurtle Duffield to be Rhoda's _____

A)servant
B)tutor
C)companion
D)competitor

Question 14

Hurtle's greatest painting is called

A)the Magnum Opus
B)The Homage
C)Rhoda
D)The Vivisector

Question 15

The Vivisector was published in

A)1970
B)1960
C)1950
D)1940

Question 16

______ is a manipulative woman who also plays the piano.

A)Rhoda Courtney
B)Kathy Volkov
C)Hero Pavloussi
D)Alfreda Courtney

Question 17

Hurtle's first love is _____, a prostitute.

A)Kathy
B)Hero
C)Nance
D)Olivia

Question 18

After his stroke, Hurtle becomes partially

A)blind
B)paralysed
C)deaf
D)amnesiac

Question 19

Hurtle enlists into the army during

A)World War I
B)World War II
C)The Spanish War
D)the Korean War

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 23

Hurtle completes his masterpiece with the help of his protégé,

A)Hero Pavloussi
B)Cecil Cutbush
C)Boo Hollingrake
D)Don Lethbridge

Question 24

The Vivisector was awarded the _____ in 1973.

A)Pulitzer Prize
B)Nobel Prize
C)Booker Prize
D)Reader's Choice

Question 25

The word, 'vivisection' means

A)dissection while still alive
B)stuffed and preserved after death
C)dissection after death
D)tortured to death

Question 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

Question 27

Hurtle was _____ from his real parents by the Courtneys.

A)stolen
B)bought
C)kidnapped
D)taken by force

Question 28

Hurtle Duffield was sold for _____ pounds to the Courtneys by his parents.

A)1000
B)100
C)750
D)500

Question 29

Hurtle Duffield suffered _____ towards the end of his life.

A)a heart attack
B)a stroke
C)a vehicle accident
D)a fall

Question 30

The Vivisector is written by

A)Patrick White
B)Alan Paton
C)Chinua Echebe
D)V.S. Naipaul

Question 31

White dedicates his novel The Vivisector to Sidney Nolan, a ____

A)vivisectionist
B)painter
C)politician
D)writer

Question 32

Nance Lightfoot is a

A)secretary
B)Greek heiress
C)painter
D)prostitute

Question 33

Hurtle's mother becomes acquainted with the Courtneys when she does _____ for them.

A)housekeeping
B)gardening
C)laundry
D)cooking

Question 34

Rhoda was initially very ______ towards Hurtle when he was first adopted by her parents.

A)puzzled
B)curious
C)resentful
D)affectionate

Question 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