"Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane Quiz

Answer: Fisherman

The bank took his boat in 1931, when Teddy was eleven. Teddy's father spent the remainder of his life working for hire on other boats and on the dock, unloading freight, when the boats didn't have work. Teddy, when he was very young, had been taken out to the islands by his father. Shutter Island was one of those islands, and Teddy asked his father why it was named Shutter.

His father said it was probably pirates that got Shutter its name. Since then Teddy never liked the water.

Answer: Deputy Warden McPherson

Orderlies, mostly black men, and some white guys, were with him. As his position went, he was young. McPherson's blond hair was slightly longer than the norm at the time. McPherson studied their US Marshal's badges and said he wasn't sure if he had seen one before.

Answer: An asylum for the criminally insane

It used to be a POW Camp, back in the US Civil War. A fort and barracks were built by the Army. Not too many buildings were still standing at the time of the book. The asylum on the island used the old troop quarters. The asylum's name was Ashecliffe.

Answer: Rachel Solando

When they got to talk to Dr. Cawley, the head Doctor and psychologist at the island, Teddy looked through his notebook. He read aloud that she escaped within the last 24 hours. She had escaped the previous night, between 10 o'clock and midnight. She still hadn't been found. Rachel was a war widow, she drowned her three children in the lake behind her house.

She still thought they were alive.

Answer: a sheet of paper

The sheet of paper read: THE LAW OF 4

I AM 47
THEY WERE 80

+YOU ARE 3

WE ARE 4
BUT
WHO IS 67?

Teddy says he thinks they could be three, him, Chuck, and Dr. Cawley. Teddy says it would be a reach that Rachel could predict that after Chuck asked him how she could.

Answer: A dream

The dream involved Teddy's wife, Dolores, coming towards him down the hallway. She had found one of his stashes of beer and asked him if he was ever sober. Teddy couldn't speak and couldn't see or feel his body. Dolores's back was charred and slightly smoldering.

Then they went to the window and Dolores told him that he could not leave, and that Rachel and Andrew were on the island. Andrew was the man who lit the match that caused the fire that killed Dolores. Teddy pleaded with her to stay, but Dolores told him that he had to let her go.

The dream ended with Teddy holding her. Teddy woke up at five o'clock, grabbed his notebook where he had written Rachel's code, and began to break it. It took him until six o'clock.

Answer: George Noyce

George was standing in the corner of a dark room when Teddy lit a match in order to see him. George was mad at Teddy because he blamed Teddy for getting him into the institution. George said that all Teddy wanted was to kill Laeddis. George also spat in his face. George said Dr. Cawley was doing a study by bringing in the most violent patients to Shutter Island.

Then George said to Teddy that all of it, as he swept his hands around the air above him, was for him. Teddy then asked him about the hurricane, how they could have thrown that in. George couldn't explain it. George asked if he had ever been truly alone during the trip; Teddy said all the time. George asked him if he meant completely alone. Teddy said he had been with Chuck. George then asks him about Chuck, if and why he trusted him. George told him Laeddis was in the lighthouse, and Teddy left.

Answer: Rachel Solando

Rachel told him that she never had children and that she was never married. She said she was "more than just a patient." Teddy asked her how she could be. She said she was the first female doctor at Ashecliffe. She said that they did lobotomies on patients at Ashecliffe and that she protested.

They couldn't let her leave, though. She said that they were creating what she called "ghosts" at Ashecliffe, people that couldn't feel pain, love, or sympathy, and had a wiped memory bank. Teddy fell asleep, and, after waking up, left Rachel in the cave. Before he left, Rachel said he would never leave and that he had no friends.

Answer: They were trying to make him realize he was Andrew Laeddis

Chuck tells him that he is really Dr. Lester Sheehan, his psychologist for the past two years. Dr. Cawley told him that he basically been in his own play for two years, and the ending was him reaching the lighthouse. Teddy had given Sheehan the name Chuck Aule. Everything in the story of his investigation had been faked.

They had been trying to bring him back to believe he was his true self through the experiment because they thought lobotomy was not the way to do it. They told him if he did not realize he was Andrew Laeddis, he was going to be lobotomized.

Then they try to reason with him, they told him he had assaulted George Noyce two weeks before. They told him Noyce had called him Laeddis, but Teddy/Andrew had thought he had been referring to him and Laeddis, not just him, which Noyce was.

They told him he had murdered Dolores. Teddy didn't believe them, and he was brought to Ward C.

Answer: Get off Shutter Island

He told Chuck he wanted to find a way off the island to get them home. Chuck said he predicted he wanted that. Teddy asked him if he had any ideas. Chuck said to give him a minute. Then Chuck raised his hand and shook his head at Dr. Cawley at the same time, then Cawley said something to the warden and they started walking towards Teddy with four orderlies behind him. One of the orderlies was holding a white bundle. Teddy asked Chuck if he thought they were on to them. Chuck said he and Teddy were too smart for that. Teddy said they were.