The 10 questions about Disgrace quiz: 10 questions by Eric Rupert

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This brief quiz tests both the trivial and significant memories of those who have read J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace.

Professor David Lurie's unrequited love interest, Soraya, is

a discreet escort
a university colleague
an actress
a police woman

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The subject of David's primary literary work is

Beatrice Arthur
Athol Fugard
Mahatma Gandhi
Lord Byron

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A kombi, as described in the novel, is the South African equivalent of

a transexual person
a soup and sandwich meal
a station wagon
an apartment

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After the horrific attack on him and his daughter, during his convalescence, David grows attached to Driepoot. To what does Driepoot refer?

a three-legged dog
his caretaker
the veterinarian
the family smallholding

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Coetzee's historical basis for the trial of David Lurie is

Pontius Pilate's trial of Jesus
the Bontrager Hearings
the Truth and Reconciliation Commision
the Nuremberg Trials

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What is David Lurie's "disgrace"?

his uncaring attitude toward his daughter
insubordination
plagiarism
an affair with one of his students

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What is the irony of Petrus' opinion of living in the country that he shares with David: "Everything is dangerous today. But here it is all right, I think."?

David accidently shoots Petrus
David and his daughter are attacked by Petrus' nephew
Petrus is killed in a car accident
the war comes to the neighborhood

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Complete this line: "He speaks Italian, he speaks French, but Italian and French will not save him

here in darkest Africa."
here in this purely political dispute."
from the indomitable Ettinger."
from his own hubris."

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What is the name of David's daughter?

Bev
Teresa
Melanie
Lucy

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J. M. Coetzee won which of the following awards for this novel:

The Nobel Prize
The Man Booker Prize
The National Book Critics Circle Award
All of the above

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