Autumn: A Novel Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why does Wendy consider moving to Scotland? (from Pages 163 – 212)

Because Scotland voted against Brexit.

Because Scotland voted for Brexit.

Because Scotland is more conservative culturally.

Because Scotland is more liberal politically.

2.

What is the purpose of the narrator interrupting the narrative to say no one knows how the novel will turn out? (from Pages 163 – 212)

To demonstrate the ineffectiveness of any ending.

To demonstrate that a book never writes itself.

To demonstrate that Elisabeth has two options, and she will take neither.

To demonstrate the truth is difficult to determine.

3.

What is expressed through the story of the man with the gun and the man with the tree costume? (from Pages 103 – 162)

Smith's dismissal of high-concept stories.

Smith's anti-Brexit position.

Smith's moral absolutism.

Smith's existentialist precepts.

4.

What is represented by the confusion over where Wendy works? (from Pages 103 – 162)

The difficulty in determining values and morals.

The difficulty in perception as a mask to truth.

The difficulty in discerning even simple truth.

The difficulty in parsing knowledge and reality.

5.

Why does Elisabeth feel Daniel's death will be the end of the world as she knows it? (from Pages 1 – 52)

Because she is his granddaughter.

Because she is in love with him.

Because Daniel has been the only constant person in her life.

Because she has never known another parent.

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