The Power of the Dog Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Where does Johnny Gordon meet Rose? (from Chapters 1-3)

A moving picture theater in Chicago.

She is a nurse at a hospital in Chicago where he does his residency.

A brothel in Salt Lake City.

At a Catholic Mass in Peoria, Illinois--she is playing the organ.

2.

How does Peter kill Phil? (from Chapters 12-14)

Apparently, Peter is the driver of the car that runs over Phil, although the police suspect Edward Nappo.

A single gunshot that everyone hears but cannot be traced to Peter.

Anthrax.

He poisons Phil's rabbit stew with arsenic.

3.

Whom does Phil confront at the gate of the ranch? (from Chapters 10-11)

His own father whom Phil sends back to Salt Lake City.

A drunk Rose who cannot figure out how to unlatch the gate.

A Jewish peddler.

A Native father and his son whose tribe once owned the land.

4.

What is Rose doing when George understands he is in love with her? (from Chapters 4-6)

Crying at her husband's grave.

Making biscuits in the inn's kitchen.

Playing the organ in Beech's only church.

Weeding a garden--her hands are dark with soil and fertilizer.

5.

The whitehaired old man who works haying for Phil, what happened to his daughter? (from Chapters 12-14)

She took to alcohol and became a prostitute in San Francisco.

He is not sure only that she took vows as a nun and is living somewhere in Europe.

An acrobat in the circus, she dies after a fall from the high wire.

His daughter turns out to be Lola, the Burbanks' maid.

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