That Hideous Strength, Chapter 5: Elasticity quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. What does Cosser tell Steele about the Cure Hardy report?

   • The Deputy Director ordered it as Mark's first official task
   • Correct answer: It was spare-time work that Mark happened to help with
   • Jane commissioned it after visiting the village
   • Feverstone needs it before the Bracton meeting

   Cosser smiles and says he put the report together in his spare time and that Mr. Studdock helped him, leaving Mark with no official standing.

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2. 2

   Question 2. What job does Miss Hardcastle actually want Mark to do?

   • Take over Steele's desk in the Sociological Department
   • Tour Edgestow with the Institutional Police
   • Correct answer: Write a staged press campaign rehabilitating Alcasan
   • Draft a contract Wither can sign that afternoon

   She says Alcasan is to be rehabilitated as a martyr through a sequence of articles and letters in both Left and Right papers.

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   Question 3. According to Miss Hardcastle, who can be gulled most easily?

   • Workmen who buy papers for football results
   • N.I.C.E. police who skip the leading articles
   • Correct answer: Educated readers of the highbrow weeklies
   • Fellows of Bracton who still trust Curry

   She tells Mark it is the educated readers who can be gulled; workmen already treat the papers as propaganda and are harder to recondition.

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   Question 4. What figure does Wither mention when Mark presses him about money?

   • Correct answer: About fifteen hundred a year, allowing for fluctuations
   • The two hundred pounds already paid as club membership
   • A don's stipend equal to Mark's Bracton fellowship
   • Nothing at all, because the Institute never discusses pay

   Wither says members in the envisaged position usually draw some sum like fifteen hundred a year, then refuses to put it in a real contract.

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5. 5

   Question 5. What has Feverstone already told Curry?

   • That Mark will return to lecture at Bracton next term
   • Correct answer: That Mark is resigning his Fellowship to join the N.I.C.E.
   • That Steele has been placed over the Sociological Department
   • That Jane is moving into St. Anne's as a seer

   Curry's letter says they were sorry to hear from Dick that Mark is resigning, and the college is already discussing a successor.

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   Question 6. How does Feverstone answer Mark's plea to save the Fellowship?

   • He promises to speak to Curry that night
   • He offers Mark a nominal job outside Belbury
   • Correct answer: He tells Mark to go to hell and not to pester him
   • He admits the Fairy invented the resignation story

   Feverstone treats the request as canvassing his vote, says go to hell, and warns that life may be nasty, poor, brutish, and short.

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   Question 7. What wound marks Mr. Fisher-King in Denniston's account?

   • A burn from the leaf bonfire beyond Sandown
   • Correct answer: A wound in the foot, on his last journey, which will not heal
   • A war wound that keeps him from leaving India
   • Blindness after looking at Jane's dreams

   Denniston says the chief is now an invalid who got a wound in his foot on his last journey which will not heal, and also calls him the Pendragon.

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   Question 8. What does Jane finally agree to do for the Dennistons?

   • Move into St. Anne's and take the Head's orders
   • Ask Mark's permission before she speaks to them again
   • Join after she has met Mr. Fisher-King in person
   • Correct answer: Report further dreams and mention the company to no one

   She will not join, but she promises to let them know if she has more such dreams and not to mention the company to anyone.

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   Question 9. Which of these events actually occur in Mark's two days at Belbury?

   • Cosser tells Steele he put the Cure Hardy report together in his spare time.

     Happened

   • Mark and Cosser drive out to inspect Cure Hardy together.

     Didn't happen

   • Mark hears animal howls from a vivisection zoo behind the house.

     Happened

   • Wither signs a formal contract at fifteen hundred a year.

     Didn't happen

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    Question 10. Which of these events actually occur in Jane's picnic with the Dennistons?

    • Arthur and Camilla take Jane to the woods beyond Sandown.

      Happened

    • Jane dreams of Hingest's murder during the picnic itself.

      Didn't happen

    • Jane admits that a later dream of Hingest's murder proved true.

      Happened

    • Jane agrees to live at St. Anne's and take the Head's orders.

      Didn't happen

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    Question 11. What does gulled mean in Miss Hardcastle's line, 'it's the educated readers who can be gulled'?

    • Correct answer: Easily deceived or taken in
    • Carefully trained in sociology
    • Protected from newspaper propaganda
    • Paid to write leading articles

    Gulled means fooled. Hardcastle argues that highbrow readers will believe anything, unlike workmen who already discount the papers.

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    Question 12. What does fracas mean in Curry's report of 'some sort of fracas between the new workmen and the local inhabitants'?

    • A legal hearing in Common Room
    • Correct answer: A noisy fight or disturbance
    • A planned lecture by Glossop
    • A funeral procession for Hingest

    A fracas is a brawl. Curry describes N.I.C.E. police firing over the crowd and the Henrietta Maria window being smashed.

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    Question 13. What does seer mean when Denniston says the Sura expected 'a seer: a person with second sight'?

    • A journalist who rehabilitates public figures
    • A police officer in the Women's Auxiliary
    • Correct answer: Someone whose visions show events in the outer world
    • A Fellow who canvasses votes in Common Room

    Denniston defines a seer as a person with second sight. Jane's true dream of Hingest's murder is their evidence that she is that person.

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