Birnam Wood: A Novel Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What critical information did Tony discover in this section of the book? (from Pages 125 - 176)

Owen was recently knighted.

Mira was working with Robert Lemoine.

Shelley actually had feelings for him.

There was a top-secret research facility hidden within Korowai National Park.

2.

What was Tony’s downfall? (from Pages 374 - 423)

He let his feelings for Mira get in the way of his reporting.

He used digital technology instead of making backups through hard copies.

He rushed through first aid without thinking it through and told no one where he was.

He failed to disguise his thermal signature.

3.

What did Mira and Shelley discover about Lemoine while they drove away from the safe house? (from Pages 331 - 373)

Lemoine had been watching them the entire time.

Lemoine was behind an illegal mining operation.

Lemoine had feelings for Mira.

Lemoine was trying to kill them both.

4.

What traumatic event shaped Lemoine’s current personality? (from Pages 177 - 234)

Lemoine was abandoned as a child on the streets and grew up learning how to fend for himself.

His parents smuggled drugs across international borders and often used Lemoine to do so.

His parents died in a fiery plane crash while he watched from a distance.

Lemoine thought that the security guard that he did not know his parents hired was trying to kill him.

5.

How did Eleanor Catton direct the reader to Macbeth? (from Pages 277 - 330)

Lemoine’s original last name before he changed it was “Macbeth.”

The characters referenced Shakespeare throughout the novel.

Mira discussed a prophecy she had in which she saved the environment through Birnam Wood.

The title and the epigraph referenced Macbeth, and Jill’s internet search yielded Macbeth as an explanation for Birnam Wood.

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