This Is Me Trivia Quiz

Answer: Parentheses

William Goldman says his longtime copy editor had several questions surrounding S. Morgenstern's extensive use of parentheses. Goldman admits he could be of no help to his editor on the subject, but he thinks the parentheses are S. Morgenstern's way of telling the reader that 'this isn't real'.

Answer: Dreary? Not to be believed

William Goldman reminds readers that Chapter 2 is where his son, Jason, stopped reading. Goldman finds that understandable considering Morgenstern uses the opening 66 pages to tell the history of the Florinese crown.

Answer: Chapter 4 - "The Preparations"

William Goldman says whenever his father read "The Princess Bride" to him and it came to this chapter, all his father would say is "what with one thing and another, three years passed." Goldman's father took Morgenstern's 105 pages and narrowed them down to a few sentences.

Answer: Life isn't fair

William Goldman shares that when he was young, his neighbor, Edith Neisser told him, "life isn't fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be." Goldman says it meant so much to hear that and he thinks that is what "The Princess Bride" says - life isn't fair.

Answer: The wedding dream

William Goldman says S. Morgenstern deserves credit for his dream sequence, in which Buttercup and Prince Humperdinck marry- calling the scene a "major league fake-out." Goldman admits to thinking the wedding had really happened and that the thought of it kept him up at night.

Answer: True

In S. Morgenstern's "The Princess Bride", chapter 4 is the longest single chapter, with 105 pages. William Goldman cuts the chapter down to a few paragraphs of his own remarks.

Answer: Morgenstern is from Guilder

In Chapter 4 - "The Announcement" William Goldman says S. Morgenstern hated royalty and doctors. In Chapter 7 - "The Wedding" Goldman says that Morgenstern's father was a doctor.

Answer: ignored

This quote is from Chapter 7 - "The Wedding". William Goldman is referring to the foreshadowing S. Morgenstern uses when telling of Inigo and Fezzik's time gathering ingredients for the miracle pill. Those details go on to show how Fezzik came to acquire the Holocaust cloak, which is later used in Westley's storming plan. Goldman feels Morgenstern should be recognized for the technique.

Answer: Cough drops

In his last abridging remarks, William Goldman says he is not trying to make the book a downer by saying he doesn't think Westley, Buttercup, Inigo and Fezzik had a happy ending. Goldman explains this further, saying he thinks love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops, but life isn't fair.

Answer: "Wow"

William Goldman says he spent his whole life thinking the story ended with "and they lived happily ever after", because that is how his father ended it. Even then William Goldman had expected more from the ending, and he got it, when as an adult he read S. Morgenstern's ending- which naturally he commented on.