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What is the name of the Hoopers' house?
Warings
What is Mrs Kingshaw's first name?
What P + P is a recurring motif in the novel, revealing the dynamic between Hooper and Kingshaw?
Predator and Prey
What F does Hooper use to manipulate Kingshaw?
Fear
In which decade was the novel published?
1970s (1970)
Where does Hooper seriously injure himself in Chapter 12?
Leydell Castle
Which character serves as a foil to Kingshaw?
Anthony Fielding
What concept, beginning with F, does Hang Wood represent for Kingshaw?
Freedom
In his spare time, what does Hooper enjoy drawing?
Battle charts
Why does Kingshaw travel to London with Mr Hooper in Chapter 15?
To buy a school uniform for his new school (Hooper's school)
Which theme does the Red Room represent?
Imprisonment
Entrapment
Predator / Prey
Bullying
What is the name of the housekeeper?
Mrs Boland
Which dead Ms represent Hooper's love of control?
'I didn't want you to come here' - how did Kingshaw receive this note from Hooper?
Hooper throws it out of the window on the day Kingshaw arrives at Warings. It is attached to a piece of plasticine.
What did Broughton-Smith give to Kingshaw at school?
Warts
What is in the room that Kingshaw uses as his 'fortress' in Chapter 4?
Dolls
What did the boy called Turville make Kingshaw do at school, in his memory?
Jump into a swimming pool
Crows are traditionally seen as harbingers of...
Death
Doom
Misfortune
Name two things that appear in Kingshaw's nightmares
Puppets, Crows, The blind man in the film
How would you describe the narrative point of view of the novel, in which Hill frequently narrates the thoughts of a single character (usually Kingshaw)?
T P L or
T P O
Third-Person Limited Narration or
Third-Person Omniscient Narration
What is the name of the town nearest to Warings?
Derne
What did Deputy Senior Prefect Lesage make Kingshaw do at school?
Lie on the floor with his eyes shut
Bullying, fear, and power-games in the novel are reinforced by recurring imagery of b_____
Birds
'Kingshaw (...) almost wept because of the tasselled caps they were made to wear.'
Kingshaw is appalled by the sight of which captive animals?
Elephants (at the Circus)
'When he saw Kingshaw's body, upside down in the water, Hooper thought suddenly, it was because of me, I did that, it was because of me, and a spurt of t______ went through him.'
Triumph