The Robber Bride | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Onset, Chapter 1

1. In the first line of the book, when does the narrator say the story of Zenia ought to begin?

When Zenia began.

2. At the beginning of Chapter 1, what does Tony equate to a European print in which "something ordinary but horrifying is taking place"?

Zenia's beginning.

3. At the beginning of Chapter 1, what has been erased, bandaged over and deliberately snarled?

Zenia's accounts of herself.

4. What does Tony say at the beginning of Chapter 1 that Zenia would do "earnestly, with a catch in her voice, a quaver of suppressed grief, or... haltingly, as if confessing"?

Lie.

5. In Chapter 1, what does Tony say comes unraveled if you "pick any strand and snip"?

History.

6. In Chapter 1, what is the topic of what Tony describes as one of her more convoluted lectures?

The dynamics of spontaneous massacres.