Comprehension quiz

1. What’s Maurice Bendrix’s occupation?

A) an atheist propagator

B) a literary novelist

C) a civil servant

D) a private detective

Can you name the characters that correspond to other 3 occupations listed?

2. From what perspective does Bendrix describe later the story of his affair with Sarah?

A) 10 years

B) 2 months

C) the narration and the events develop simultaneously

D) 5 years

3. Who sets a private detective on Sarah’s tail?

A) Henry Miles

B) Maurice Bendrix

C) Richard Smythe

D) the detective has personal interest in pursuing her

4. What does Maurice demonstrate by the following phrase “I mustn’t hate, for if I were really to hate I would believe, and if I were to believe what a triumph for you and her”?

A) Maurice is tempted to shift his anger towards God, but at the same time he does not want to believe in God

B) Maurice had assumed that Sarah had simply returned to Henry and had grown to hate them both

C) Maurice realizes that his jealousy is misdirected

d) Maurice learns that she was planning on converting to Catholicism and may receive a Christian burial. He finds this intolerable but, in the Catholic priest who conveys her wishes, finally finds someone to hate.

For whom might the underline you stand? Could you think of the situtations referring to the 3 remaining phrases?

5. Who managed to steal Sarah’s journal?

A) Bendrix

B) her husband

C) private detective

d) private detective’s son

6. What period does the action in the novel embrace?

a) The 1^st World War and 2 years after it

b) Last peaceful years beforе the 2^nd World War

c) The 2^nd World War and a short after-war period

d) All the events take place after the 2^nd World War

7. To the priest of what Christianity branch does Sarah eventually go?

A) Anglican

B) Orthodox

C) Lutheran

Date: 2015-02-03; view: 830