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Shutter Island Trivia Quiz

A quiz on "Shutter Island," the psychological thriller by Dennis Lehane.

A multiple-choice quiz by closetpoet17. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
closetpoet17

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
315,301

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
11 / 15

Plays
638

Last 3 plays: Guest 69 (10/15), Guest 90 (3/15), Guest 91 (9/15).

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 15

1. The journal entry at the beginning of the book is written nearly 40 years after the rest of the book's events by what character? Hint

Rachel Solando

Dr. Cawley

Dr. Sheehan

Teddy Daniels

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Question 2 of 15

2. When we first meet Teddy, he is in Massachusetts waiting for a ferry to Shutter Island.

True

False

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Question 3 of 15

3. What happened to Teddy's wife, Dolores, two years ago? Hint

She was diagnosed with cancer.

She committed suicide.

She died in a fire in their apartment building.

She divorced Teddy.

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Question 4 of 15

4. What is the name of the asylum on Shutter Island?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 5 of 15

5. What did Teddy first notice that Rachel Solando left behind when she escaped her room? Hint

A book she'd stolen

Two pairs of shoes

A few meticulously arranged piles of rocks

A piece of paper with a code written on it

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Question 6 of 15

6. Why was Rachel Solando committed to the asylum? Hint

She attacked a police officer

She tried to commit suicide

She set fire to the apartment building Teddy's wife was in

She killed her three kids

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Question 7 of 15

7. Who is 67? Hint

Rachel Solando

Dr. Cawley

Andrew Laeddis

Chuck Aule

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Question 8 of 15

8. What did Bridget Kearns write in Teddy's notebook? Hint

he's dead

run

fire

scared?

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Question 9 of 15

9. Where did Teddy and Chuck find Rachel Solando? Hint

The graveyard during the storm

Trying to swim off the island

The basement of Ward C

They didn't - Cawley did

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Question 10 of 15

10. When Dolores appeared in Teddy's dreams, what was consistently wrong with her? Hint

She was on fire

Her arm was gone

She had no hair

There was a hole in her belly spilling out liquid

11. After getting out of the hurricane-damaged Ward C unnoticed, Teddy and Chuck see another row of rock piles, supposedly code like the ones in the graveyard. Teddy climbs down to count them and record them in his notebook. When he returns, what has happened to Chuck? Hint

Andrew Laeddis has attacked him

He is dead

He's gone

His nose is broken

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Question 12 of 15

12. Who does Teddy meet in a cave? Hint

Andrew Laeddis

The warden

Dr. Cawley

A woman who was a doctor at the asylum

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Question 13 of 15

13. Teddy discovers at the lighthouse that Dr. Sheehan has been impersonating whom? Hint

The warden

Trey Washington

Chuck

Laeddis

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Question 14 of 15

14. What, in reality, happened to Dolores? Hint

She really did die in a fire

She drowned in a lake

She ran away with another man

She was shot by Teddy after she drowned their kids

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Question 15 of 15

15. If you, as a reader, thought that a happy ending for the book would be for Teddy to realize his identity and be permanently rehabilitated, would your wish have been fulfilled?

Yes

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The journal entry at the beginning of the book is written nearly 40 years after the rest of the book's events by what character?

Answer: Dr. Sheehan

Sheehan, the "elusive" doctor, is actually in plain sight of Teddy for most of the four days at Shutter Island. He is disguised as Chuck Aule, the partner sent with him on his investigation.

2. When we first meet Teddy, he is in Massachusetts waiting for a ferry to Shutter Island.

Answer: False

At the beginning, Teddy and Chuck are already on the ferry to the island - a detail that proves to be crucial later.

3. What happened to Teddy's wife, Dolores, two years ago?

Answer: She died in a fire in their apartment building.

Teddy tells Chuck that she didn't die from burns from the fire, but that the smoke killed her instead, so "she didn't die in pain," something that seems very important to him.

4. What is the name of the asylum on Shutter Island?

Answer: Ashecliffe

The full name is Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, but it is mostly referred to simply as Ashecliffe.

5. What did Teddy first notice that Rachel Solando left behind when she escaped her room?

Answer: Two pairs of shoes

He asked Cawley how many pairs of shoes each patient had, and the doctor's answer confirmed his suspicion; Rachel escaped barefoot. Teddy finds this strange because it would be nearly impossible for someone with no shoes to navigate the rocky, thorny terrain that covers most of the island.

6. Why was Rachel Solando committed to the asylum?

Answer: She killed her three kids

Allegedly, she drowned her kids in a lake.

7. Who is 67?

Answer: Andrew Laeddis

Part of Rachel's code, it refers to the 67th patient of Ashecliffe, of whom there is apparently no record.

8. What did Bridget Kearns write in Teddy's notebook?

Answer: run

Teddy was interviewing her about Solando's disappearance and Chuck had left the table when she took his notebook and wrote in it.

9. Where did Teddy and Chuck find Rachel Solando?

Answer: They didn't - Cawley did

She was "found" while Teddy and Chuck were out in the storm.

10. When Dolores appeared in Teddy's dreams, what was consistently wrong with her?

Answer: There was a hole in her belly spilling out liquid

This symbolized the blood from Teddy - in reality Andrew Laeddis - shooting her.

Answer: He's gone

Although Teddy automatically fears he is dead, his body is nowhere to be seen. The thing Teddy mistakes for his body in the water is in fact just a long, sun-bleached rock.

12. Who does Teddy meet in a cave?

Answer: A woman who was a doctor at the asylum

She tells him that the hospital staff have been drugging him through the food, coffee, and cigarettes he's been given.

13. Teddy discovers at the lighthouse that Dr. Sheehan has been impersonating whom?

Answer: Chuck

This discovery makes the journal entry from the beginning much more clear to the reader, since Sheehan was a part of the entire setup.

14. What, in reality, happened to Dolores?

Answer: She was shot by Teddy after she drowned their kids

Dolores was a sufferer of insanity, but Teddy - Andrew - refused to heed the warnings doctors gave him about her. One day when he was gone, she drowned each of their three children in the lake. When Andrew discovered them dead, he killed his wife out of rage by shooting her in the stomach with his gun. Andrew created Rachel Solando, Teddy Daniels, and the fire in the apartment building to block from his mind that it was his fault his children and wife were dead.

15. If you, as a reader, thought that a happy ending for the book would be for Teddy to realize his identity and be permanently rehabilitated, would your wish have been fulfilled?

Answer: No

Although he realizes, briefly, the truth of his actual identity, the final chapter of the book reveals a repeat of the story his mind has created and believed for two years, with the suggestion that since Cawley's mission to save him failed, Teddy will go into surgery for a transorbital lobotomy.

Source: Author closetpoet17

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