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Quiz about The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies Part One

"The Rebel Angels" by Robertson Davies, Part One Quiz

"The Rebel Angels" is the first book in Robertson Davies' Cornish Trilogy, and this is my first quiz on "The Rebel Angels." Thank you for playing!

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

Author
ldubose

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
215,922

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. What is the name of the college where the majority of the novel takes place? (The correct name, not the nickname!) Hint

Ploughwright College

The College of Saint John and the Holy Ghost

Balliol College

The University of Toronto

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Question 2 of 10

2. With what news does Maria greet Hollier with after summer vacation? Hint

Cornish is dead.

I love you.

Parlabane is back.

I will give you the secret of the bomari.

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Question 3 of 10

3. What great author did Urquhart McVarish's supposed ancestor, Sir Thomas Urquhart, translate into English? Hint

The Venerable Bede

Pliny

Konrad Gesner

Rabelais

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Question 4 of 10

4. From which monastic society did Parlabane "go over the wall?" Hint

The Society of Jesus

The Poor Clares

The Franciscans

The Society of the Sacred Mission

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Question 5 of 10

5. Maria Magdalena Theotoky is half Gypsy on her mother's side. What is her father's nationality? Hint

Canadian

Russian

Polish

Greek

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Question 6 of 10

6. What does Mamusia's family name, Laoutaro, mean in Romany? Hint

Carpenter

Luthier

Metalsmith

Farmer

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which author do Ellerman's comments spur Prof. the Rev. Simon Darcourt to emulate? Hint

Oscar Wilde

Gertrude Stein

James Joyce

John Aubrey

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who does Francis Cornish name as his executors? Hint

Maria Theotoky, Urquhart McVarish and Penelope Raven

Simon Darcourt, Maria Theotoky and John Parlabane

Clement Hollier, Ozias Froats and Simon Darcourt

Clement Hollier, Simon Darcourt and Urquhart McVarish

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Question 9 of 10

9. Ozias Froats, former football hero and current "Ornament of the University," is engaged in research into what bodily secretion? Hint

Blood

Feces

Urine

Tears

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Question 10 of 10

10. Arthur Cornish, although a whiz kid in the world of big money, yearns to be something more. What does he yearn to be? Hint

A movie star

An Artic explorer

Prime Minister of Canada

A patron of the arts

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is the name of the college where the majority of the novel takes place? (The correct name, not the nickname!)

Answer: The College of Saint John and the Holy Ghost

The College of Saint John and the Holy Ghost (affectionately known as "Spook" to those in the know) is a part of the University of Toronto. Ploughwright College is another college in that august institution; Prof. the Rev. Simon Darcourt is Sub-Warden of Plowright College. Balliol College is a college of Oxford University.

2. With what news does Maria greet Hollier with after summer vacation?

Answer: Parlabane is back.

Hollier responds with, "Great God! How awful!"

3. What great author did Urquhart McVarish's supposed ancestor, Sir Thomas Urquhart, translate into English?

Answer: Rabelais

Rabelais is Maria's special balliwick; when McVarish asks if she has read his ancestor's translations, she replies that she sticks to the original French.

4. From which monastic society did Parlabane "go over the wall?"

Answer: The Society of the Sacred Mission

The Society of the Sacred Mission is an Anglican monastic order. The Society of Jesus (otherwise known as the Jesuits) was founded by Ignatius Loyala and is greatly concerned with education. The Franciscans are actually an order of friars as opposed to monks. (Friars take orders but lead a mendicant life.) The Poor Clares is actually a mendicant order for women -- a sister order to the Franciscans, if you will.

5. Maria Magdalena Theotoky is half Gypsy on her mother's side. What is her father's nationality?

Answer: Polish

Although he took his mother's Greek surname when he moved to Hungary, Tadeusz Bonawentura Niemcewicz was born in Poland in 1910.

6. What does Mamusia's family name, Laoutaro, mean in Romany?

Answer: Luthier

Mamusia tells Hollier that she is a "maker, mender, lover, mother, bondwoman of violins and all the viol family."

7. Which author do Ellerman's comments spur Prof. the Rev. Simon Darcourt to emulate?

Answer: John Aubrey

Ellerman wishes that he were ten years younger so that he could write a University of Toronto version of Aubrey's "Brief Lives." Darcourt is inspired by this comment and finds himself looking at his colleagues in a new light.

8. Who does Francis Cornish name as his executors?

Answer: Clement Hollier, Simon Darcourt and Urquhart McVarish

Francis Cornish left behind a huge (and extremely haphazard) collection of art, books and manuscripts. Hollier cataloged the books, Darcourt cataloged the manuscripts, and McVarish cataloged the art.

9. Ozias Froats, former football hero and current "Ornament of the University," is engaged in research into what bodily secretion?

Answer: Feces

Dr. Froats runs afoul (pun intended) of Murray Brown, a politician who feels that scatomancy has no place in state-funded university education.

10. Arthur Cornish, although a whiz kid in the world of big money, yearns to be something more. What does he yearn to be?

Answer: A patron of the arts

During dinner with Maria, Arthur reveals his dream. He feels that he has extraordinary taste, so that with his knowledge of big money, art patronage seems logical.

Source: Author ldubose

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