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After an accident in which his truck is crushed and he suffers sever injuries, Edgar Freemantle starts to experience violent mood swings. On the advice of his psychiatrist, he takes a lenghty holiday in Florida, and takes up painting.
6 Duma Key quizzes and 65 Duma Key trivia questions.
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  Duma Key   popular trivia quiz  
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An accident befalls Edgar Freemantle in this 2008 Stephen King novel and sets him on course to start a new life on Florida's Gulf Coast, and when he takes up a paintbrush, it turns out he's a bigger part of a more nefarious picture. Good luck!
Average, 10 Qns, kyleisalive, Apr 29 24
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Apr 29 24
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  Deathly Duma Key   great trivia quiz  
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By far my favourite Stephen King, this should test you on a vast variety of the strange happenings. Enjoy! (Warning: If you haven't finished the book yet, don't take the quiz. There are too many spoilers!)
Average, 10 Qns, AKART, Nov 10 09
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  The Key Facts - Stephen King, "Duma Key"   great trivia quiz  
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Stephen King's latest novel about a man who moves to Florida following an accident and starts to paint. Contains spoilers.
Average, 10 Qns, andrewphillips, May 04 08
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  Stephen King's "Duma Key" Quiz for Experts    
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Other than "It" and the "Dark Tower" series, this was my favorite book he's written. If you've read this book you should pass this quiz.
Easier, 10 Qns, shs05, May 24 08
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  15 Question Stephen King's "Duma Key" Quiz   popular trivia quiz  
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Arguably the greatest writer of modern times presents us with "Duma Key", a chilling tale about Edgar Freemantle, building contractor turned artist, who discovers his new house isn't all that it seems. How well do you know the tale...?
Average, 15 Qns, GuiseleyWitch, Dec 16 18
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Dec 16 18
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  Stephen King's "Duma Key" ... Enjoy    
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I loved this book, and hope that you can enjoy this quiz!
Average, 10 Qns, kingfan1980, May 22 08
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trivia question Quick Question
Who kills Ilse?

From Quiz "Stephen King's "Duma Key""





Duma Key Trivia Questions
1. Edgar Freemantle arrives in a hospital. What is one of the things he yells at his wife in his delirium?

From Quiz Deathly Duma Key

Answer: Get in the BURN, get in the CHAR!

While his wife, Pam, was watching over him, Edgar got angry that there was a chair nearby and that Pam wasn't sitting in it. So he shouted for Pam to get in the chair, although his brain was a bit fuzzy then. "It was RED!" was a line he used to remember the name of his anger-management doll, Reba. "Do the day, let the day do you!" was one of Wireman's quotes, and "Drown her to sleep" was what Ms. Eastlake said to Wireman in her last moments.

2. In what state does Edgar Freemantle live before his accident?

From Quiz The Key Facts - Stephen King, "Duma Key"

Answer: Minnesota

Edgar is owner of a very successful construction company in the Minneapolis - St Paul area.

3. What was Mrs. Fevereau driving when she hit Gandalf?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key" ... Enjoy

Answer: Hummer

Edgar thought it was very big and tacky.

4. What happens to Edgar to put him in the hospital?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key"

Answer: A crane backs into his truck

While Edgar is at a job site, a crane with a malfunctioning back-up beeper demolishes his truck, and his body. He loses an arm, his right leg is totally mangled, and his memory is severely effected.

5. Why does Edgar move to Duma Key?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key"

Answer: Building site accident

A former building contractor, now highly skilled artist, Edgar was almost killed on a building site. He lost an arm, and suffered Broca's Aphasia, whereby he couldn't use correct words and grammar. He also tried, when in hospital, to choke his wife, and attacked her on other occasions.

6. Edgar later stays at Lake Phalen, taken there by Kathi Green. What is Edgar's nickname for her?

From Quiz Deathly Duma Key

Answer: The Rehab Queen

Almost everywhere that the name 'Kathi Green' is mentioned, it is followed by 'the Rehab Queen'. Obviously, Edgar's mind still needed healing time. Later on, Kathi gives Edgar a choice of islands to live in. Edgar goes for Duma Key straight away

7. What is the name of Edgar's "help-out guy"?

From Quiz The Key Facts - Stephen King, "Duma Key"

Answer: Jack Cantori

Edgar remembers his name in the beginning through a series of connections - Jack talks about hurricanes in the area, Edgar thinks about The Weather Channel and the presenter, "the hurricane guy is Jim Cantore", and thus gets to Jack Cantori.

8. Pam's parents had relocated to what location?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key" ... Enjoy

Answer: Palm Desert

Lake Phalen is the place Edgar moved to after Pam asked him for the divorce.

9. What is the name of Edgar's therapist?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key"

Answer: Kamen

Dr. Kamen is one of Edgar's first friends after his accident.

10. Which arm did Edgar lose?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key"

Answer: Right

This happened when the crane backed into his car. Ouch...

11. Edgar arrives in a house named Salmon Point, which he calls what?

From Quiz Deathly Duma Key

Answer: Big Pink

Little Pink is the name of Edgar's upstairs room, in which he paints (dangerous) pictures. Palm Desert is where Pam's aged parents live, and where she meets Maxwell, with whom she has an affair.

12. The first drawings Edgar does at Big Pink are of a ship on the horizon. What does he name this picture?

From Quiz The Key Facts - Stephen King, "Duma Key"

Answer: Hello

Edgar goes into a kind of trance while painting these pictures and often has little idea what he is painting until it is finished. When he finishes, he is generally starving.

13. What state is Duma Key in?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key"

Answer: Florida

Duma Key is an island right off the coast of Florida, just inside the Gulf of Mexico.

14. How many daughters does Edgar have?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key"

Answer: 2

His daughters are Ilse (younger) and Melinda (older).

15. At Duma Key, Edgar starts drawing, and then painting. His first work of mystery was of a horizon, containing a ship. What did he call the painting?

From Quiz Deathly Duma Key

Answer: Hello

Out of brain impulse (probably given to him by Perse), Edgar titles the painting 'Hello'. The actual ship is named Perse, and so is the spirit that wreaks havoc on the other characters. "Scoto" is the name of the art gallery that Edgar displays his work.

16. How many sisters does Elizabeth have?

From Quiz The Key Facts - Stephen King, "Duma Key"

Answer: 5

Elizabeth has 5 sisters - Adie, Maria, Hannah and the twins Tessie and Laura.

17. What is Ilse's screen name?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key" ... Enjoy

Answer: ifsogirl88

Edgar receives email from Ilse shortly after his arrival,and the screen name appears several times. Edgar also called Ilse "my Ifsogirl" a couple of times.

18. What is Edgar's key to remembering Reba the anger doll's name?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key"

Answer: "It was RED!"

When Edgar thinks of "It was RED!" he's thinking of a line from a song by Reba McEntire, then he can remember Reba's name.

19. In which state is Duma Key?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key"

Answer: Florida

'Home of the newly wed and nearly dead', referenced in the book on a couple of occasions.

20. Edgar also meets Jerome Wireman. He is a man who came to Duma Key because of his loss of whom?

From Quiz Deathly Duma Key

Answer: Wife and child

According to Wireman, he married a Mexican woman named Julia, and together they had a daughter, whom they gave to a kindergarten to care for. One unfortunate day, the baby swallowed a marble and choked to death. The kindergarten was closed down afterward. When they phoned Julia about the incident she drove at lightning speeds to the kindergarten. On the way, she had a head-on collision with a truck, and died instantly. Wireman, stricken with grief, shot himself in the head, but the bullet missed his brain. He described the events as "la loteria" (the lottery), and that the jackpot prize was a horrible ending.

21. What is the sketch called that Edgar does for Ilse?

From Quiz The Key Facts - Stephen King, "Duma Key"

Answer: The End of the Game

The picture is of a girl in a tennis dress looking out to sea with green tennis balls floating around her feet. Edgar later tells Ilse to burn the picture, which she does in her oven.

22. Who was the girl in "Girl and Ship #6?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key" ... Enjoy

Answer: Addie

Edgar doesn't really know until Elizabeth points out that it was her sister Addie.

23. What does Edgar begin to do when he arrives on Duma Key?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key"

Answer: Paint and draw

Dr. Kamen tells Edgar to do something he loves to do. Edgar loved to sketch when he was in college, and excels at it when he picks it up again in Duma.

24. Who owns the house which he rents?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key"

Answer: Elizabeth Eastlake

In her mid-eighties and afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, Elizabeth inherited a number of properties and a vast amount of cash from her father.

25. Ilse, Edgar's daughter, comes to him one day with good news. She had become engaged to whom?

From Quiz Deathly Duma Key

Answer: Carson Jones

Carson Jones is a Baptist, singing for a Baptist tour. He becomes close, a bit too close, to his singing partner, a blonde girl named Bridget. Ilse starts off claiming that she wasn't a bit jealous, which Edgar quietly doubts, but later tells Carson to make a choice between her and Bridget. (Incidentally, I used to think that Carson was a girl's name. I had to actually search up the name before I was convinced that Ilse was straight.)

26. How does Edgar kill Candy Brown?

From Quiz The Key Facts - Stephen King, "Duma Key"

Answer: He paints him without his nose and mouth

Candy Brown is arrested for the abduction and murder of a young girl, and while Candy is in custody, Edgar paints him without his nose and mouth. Candy is found dead next day having died in his sleep. Edgar paints Wireman without the bullet in his head causing his recovery from his injuries. Ilse dies by drowning and Kamen dies of a heart attack after buying one of Edgar's paintings.

27. What is the name of the art gallery that shows Edgar's paintings?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key"

Answer: Scoto Art Gallery

Dario loves Edgar's paintings and almost forces him to show his stuff.

28. What is the name of the house-owner's assistant?

From Quiz Stephen King's "Duma Key"

Answer: Wireman

Initially afflicted by a round in his brain, deteriorating vision and seizures - Edgar eventually cures him of these by painting them gone.

29. Edgar's best paintings were a series depicting the Perse and a girl. What was this series named?

From Quiz Deathly Duma Key

Answer: "Girl and Ship" series

There were nine paintings in the "Girl and Ship" series in total. Perse had the strongest influence in them, and through one of them instructed Mary Ire to kill both herself and Ilse. The last painting, number 9, showed the ghostly faces of Elizabeth Eastlake's dead family, lost in the undertow.

30. How did Mary Ire kill Ilse?

From Quiz The Key Facts - Stephen King, "Duma Key"

Answer: Drowned her in the bath

Mary killed Ilse by drowning her in the bath after Mary had hit her round the back of the head with her gun, fracturing her skull in three places.

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