Quiz A kiss before dying

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Quiz A Kiss Before Dying

When does the story take place?

1. 1960s
2. 1940s
3. 1970s
4. 1950s

What does Leo Kingship's (Dorothy's father) business work with?

1. Diamonds
2. Gold
3. Copper
4. Silver

How do we find out more about Dorri's life in chapter 1?

1. from letters
2. She talks about her life with her roommate
3. Her father tells us about her
4. Bud brags about her

Who is Bud Corliss?

Dorothy's boyfriend (fiancee) and killer

How did he try to kill Dorothy?

by giving her pills that were poisonous

Why does Bud so "gallantly" let the old lady go into the lift before him?

1. He is always trying to charm people
2. That's who he is: gallant and polite.
3. He doesn't want to be seen as a couple
4. He prefers to use the stairs

Quote:

"Come on, get your last look at the world as an unmarried woman." 

What promise did Bud make to Dorothy while never intending to keep it?

That he will marry her

Quote

An act of God, the crazy kind of little thing that was always screwing up perfect plans, - and he had anticipated it. Jesus! He ran a hand over his hair, wishing there were a mirror." 

p57, ch 12

What do you think when you read this?

What effect does it have on you as a reader that it is hard for him to open the door to the outside space on the top floor of the building? (p56, ch 11)

What is the real name of Mr Dettweiler?

1. Gordon Gant
2. Bud Corliss
3. Mr Kingston
4. Mr Kingship

How did Bud get the suicide note?

by having her translate a few Spanish sentences

How did Bud get Dorothy to the municipal building?

1. It was the prettiest building for a wedding.
2. It was the highest building in the area.
3. They could get the marriage license here.
4. He wanted to propose to her in a special place

How did Dorothy die?

She was pushed off the roof

Who is Ellen?

1. A friend of Dorothy
2. Someone who heard about the death on the news
3. A cousin of Bud Corliss
4. Dorothy's sister

What details about Dorothy led Ellen to believe Dorothy was getting married?

1. her bag
2. her eyes
3. her clothes
4. her letter

Who does Ellen visit after arriving at Blue River?

1. Gordon Gant
2. Mrs Arquette
3. Dorothy's grave
4. Cousin Hester

He is one of Dorothy's fellow students whao matches the description of her boyfriend

Who was Ellen's second suspect?

1. Gordon Gant
2. Dwight Powell
3. Mr. Dettweiler
4. Bud Corliss

Why are Marion's knees shaking at the end of chapter 5?

1. The food she had is making her sick
2. She has a date with her sister's presumed killer
3. Her muscles are aching from running away from Dwight
4. She has fallen in love with the waiter at the restaurant

How did Dwight Powell prove that he wasn't the killer?

He said he loved Dorothy but that she could not have been expecting his baby, because he had been in New York the whole of the previous spring. He does tell her, however that he felt responsible for her suicide. Ellen believes him

Who says: "I'm sick of these college girls (...). You get one of them on your neck (...) and you can't get her off. "

1. Dwight Powell
2. Gordon Gant
3. Bud Corliss
4. Mrs Arquette

Quote

He told her these things with irritation and contempt. This girl with her hands over her mouth in horror and had everything given to her on a silver platter; she didn't know what it was to live on a swathing catwalk over the chasm of failure, stealing perilously inch by inch toward the solid ground of success so many miles away."

Whose thoughts are in the quote in the previous slide?

1. Dwight Powell
2. Gordon Gant
3. The Dean
4. Bud Corliss

How was Ellen killed?

she was shot

How did Bud first get into contact with Marion?

1. He followed her
2. He ran into her
3. He planned a date with her
4. He called her

He tells her that he was a friend of Ellen's and that he wants to return a book that he borrowed from her. 

What did Bud lie about during his time with Marion and why?

his time at Stoddard University (with Dorothy)

Who told Leo Kingship about Bud Corliss?

1. Gordon Gant
2. Mr Dettweiler
3. He found out himself
4. Dwight Powell

What was the plan between Gordon Gant and Leo Kingship?

Confront Bud with everything they know about him inf ront of Marion

Who killed Bud Corliss?

1. Leo Kingship
2. Marion
3. Gordon Gant
4. He committed suicide

What link is there between the way Bud dies and his experiences in the war?

during the war, he relished scenarios in which he exerted power over his adversaries. The moment in which he felt the most power was after wounding a Japanese sniper. Incapacitated and fearing for his life, the soldier wet his pants, prompting Corliss’s simultaneous feelings of disgust and superiority. 

He wets his pants, mirroring the Japanese sniper whom he killed in the Pacific, confirming his powerlessness and cowardice. Unable to stand up straight, he trips off the platform, falling into the molten copper psychopathic tendencies and suggests that he is deeply broken beneath his calm and bright exterior.

What is the ironic significance of copper?

Who says: There were times when being so handsome was a definite handicap .

What is /are the themes of A Kiss Before Dying?

1. love and marriage
2. greed
3. deceit
4. murder

Who wrote A Kiss Before Dying?

1. Charles Dickens
2. George Orwell
3. Ira Levin
4. William Shakespeare

What did we think of the story?

😒🙁😐🙂😃

What do we think of the ending

Stupid

Expected

Alright

Unexpected

Deserved

Give the book a mark between 1 and 10

010

What to do for the rest of the lesson..

We are going to discuss what to expect on your booktest next week