The Blue Afternoon: A Novel Quiz

William Boyd (writer)

This Study Guide consists of approximately 45 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Blue Afternoon.

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Plot Summary

+Chapters Summary and Analysis

Prologue, Chapters 1 - 4

Chapters 5 - 10

Chapters 11-15

Chapters 16-18

Chapters Tongue and The First Body

Chapters The Nipa Barn, Chez Dr. Isidro Cruz, and The Aero-Móvil

Chapters Bad Blood, A Diet of Beef and Tea, On the Luneta, The House at San Teodoro, Dawn on the Pasig, and The Bridge at Santa Mesa

Chapters Pitch, Yaw and Roll; Into the Body; A Simple Surgeon; and Tea With Paton Bobby

Chapters The Four-Cylinder 12 HP Flanquin; 1903; Two Propellers Pushing; Rain; Scalpel; The Blue Afternoon; The Girls on the Pony; Hippotheetical; and The Sutured Heart

Chapters An Official Entertainment; The Library; Trial Run; Brahms; and In The Nipa Barn

Chapters The Raid; The Letter; Pragmatism; Vienna, Paris, Moscow, Rome...; A Bottle of Blood; The Toy; A Funeral; The Lost Flight of Pantaleon Quiroga; and Escape

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The Blue Afternoon: A Novel Quiz

The Blue Afternoon: A Novel Quiz

How does Carriscant view Cruz professionally? (from Chapters Tongue and The First Body)

Why does Siverance summon Carriscant? (from Chapters Pitch, Yaw and Roll; Into the Body; A Simple Surgeon; and Tea With Paton Bobby)

Why did Delphine's aunt and uncle raise her? (from Chapters An Official Entertainment; The Library; Trial Run; Brahms; and In The Nipa Barn)

How long will Kay and Carriscant be on the ship? (from Chapters 16-18)

What happened to cause a war in the Philippines? (from Chapters 16-18)