High Dive: A Novel Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why does Dan refuse to kill one of Dawson's dogs? (from Initiation: 1978 – Part One, Chapter 5)

Because Dan has something resembling a conscience.

Because Dan argues the dogs are unarmed and cannot fight back.

Because they are not dogs, but actually wolves.

Because they are too quick to be shot.

2.

Why is Dan driven across the border in 1978? (from Initiation: 1978 – Part One, Chapter 5)

For the purposes of smuggling weapons and bombs into Northern Ireland.

For the purposes of smuggling money for weapons and explosives into Brighton.

For an intiiation into an Irish loyalist terrorist organization.

For an intiiation into an Irish independence terrorist organization.

3.

Why does Dan's mother begin to worry for her safety, and for the safety of Dan? (from Three: Department of Hearts, 1984, - Four: The Grand, Chapter 6)

Because someone has thrown rocks through their windows.

Because they are receiving threatening letters.

Because they are receiving threats by phone.

Because someone has painted a black dot on their doorway.

4.

What childhood experience drove Dan to terrorism? (from Part One, Chapter 6 – Part Three, Chapter 1)

Watching all three of his brothers shot to death.

Watching his girlfriend be raped by Loyalists.

Seeing his father get killed during a protest.

Seeing his mother beaten and arrested during a protest.

5.

Why does Roy (Dan) insist that everyone is involved in politics whether they know it or not? (from Three: Department of Hearts, 1984, Chapter 2 - 5)

Because Dan is issuing Freya a coded warning to stay out of the Grand in October.

Because politics, like love, is unavoidable in life - and so it must be embraced rather than ignored.

Because Dan hates people like Freya who have no political inclinations.

Because politics - and people like Dan - affect their lives no matter what their level of interest is.

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