That Hideous Strength, Chapter 11: Battle Begun quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. Who is driving when Chapter 11 opens in the rain?

   • Dr. Dimble driving, with Jane behind him
   • Correct answer: Arthur Denniston, with Dimble in the back
   • MacPhee driving on Jane's directions
   • Mark Studdock driving away from Edgestow

   Denniston is driving on Eaton Road; Dimble speaks from the back seat, and Jane cannot see even with the window down.

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   Question 2. What forgotten dream-detail makes Jane stop the car?

   • A white gate standing open on Eaton Road
   • The Head speaking in a darkened room
   • Correct answer: A fire in a hollow in a little wood
   • Merlin crowned beneath Bragdon Wood

   Jane sees a light and remembers the fire where she found Merlin after coming up from underground, a part of the dream she never told Grace or the Director.

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   Question 3. What do they find when they finally enter the dingle?

   • Merlin asleep beside the fire
   • N.I.C.E. police around the tent
   • Correct answer: A tramp's camp, but no man there
   • The Director waiting with MacPhee

   They see signs of a tramp's camp—tent, kettle, donkey, pipe dottle—but when they go down they can see no man.

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   Question 4. Why does Fairy Hardcastle drop the watch on Dimble that night?

   • Frost ordered her not to touch academics
   • She already has his address at St. Anne's
   • Correct answer: Captain O'Hara wanted another car
   • Dimble never left the college after Mark

   She had already assigned watchers to Lancaster and Lyly; a call from Captain O'Hara for another car made her let Dimble go as a nonentity.

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5. 5

   Question 5. Why do Wither and Frost block Hardcastle's methods on Mark?

   • They think Mark is already loyal to the Cause
   • Correct answer: A shocked Jane might lose the faculty they need
   • The ordinary police have already taken custody
   • Filostrato needs Mark unharmed to serve the Head

   They want Jane's psychical faculty. Finding her husband after coercive examination might cause a disturbance that makes the faculty disappear.

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   Question 6. In Frost's account, Jane's mind became opaque because she

   • stopped dreaming after leaving Edgestow
   • was drugged during the hospital affair
   • Correct answer: placed herself under a hostile organism
   • had Merlin block the authorities

   Frost says occultations occur when a mind places itself, by some voluntary choice, under the control of a hostile organism—proof of enemy influence.

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   Question 7. Frost says the only way to implement their orders is to

   • raid St. Anne's at dawn
   • Correct answer: induce Mark to bring Jane himself
   • offer Jane a research post at Belbury
   • let Hardcastle pick Jane up in Edgestow

   A raid is too risky, torture may wreck Jane's faculty or fail if Mark does not know her address, so Mark must fetch her of his own will.

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   Question 8. Who comes through the cell door at the end of the chapter?

   • Deputy Director Wither
   • Miss Hardcastle
   • Correct answer: Professor Frost
   • A uniformed policeman

   It is not a policeman but Frost in a grey suit, pince-nez blanking his eyes; Mark is at Belbury and now sees Frost as something a child or dog would flee.

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   Question 9. Which of these events actually occur during Jane's night hunt?

   • Jane remembers a fire from her dream that she never told Grace or the Director.

     Happened

   • The party captures Merlin and drives him to St. Anne's.

     Didn't happen

   • They see a donkey and think the man by the fire may be a tramp or tinker.

     Happened

   • Jane clearly sees the white gate from the car and they drive straight to it.

     Didn't happen

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    Question 10. Which of these events actually occur at Belbury in this chapter?

    • Wither and Frost lurch into a struggling embrace as Who's Who falls off the table.

      Happened

    • Hardcastle is allowed to begin her treatment of Mark that night.

      Didn't happen

    • Mark, waiting to be hanged, remembers trying to get into a school society called Grip.

      Happened

    • Frost explains the macrobes to Mark in the white cell.

      Didn't happen

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    Question 11. What does 'phantasmal' mean as used in: 'passed from a waking into a phantasmal world'?

    • Bright and clearly mapped
    • Correct answer: Ghostly or dreamlike
    • Loud with traffic
    • Warm and inviting

    Leaving the road for the wet field feels like passing from waking into a phantom world: darker, wetter, and harder to measure.

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    Question 12. What does Frost mean by 'occultations' in: 'we know only one cause for such occultations'?

    • Public lectures on the occult
    • Correct answer: Blackouts of access to a mind
    • Eclipses used as secret signals
    • Errors in the Institute's filing

    Frost uses occultations for the moment Jane's mind became opaque to the authorities, which he reads as enemy control.

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    Question 13. What does 'insipidity' mean in: 'The concentrated insipidity of it all filled him with self-pity'?

    • Correct answer: Dull, flavorless emptiness
    • Sudden and violent anger
    • Proud self-satisfaction
    • Deep religious reverence

    Mark tastes the flatness of a life spent pretending to enjoy cliques he did not like; the word names that lack of flavor.

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