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100

What is the name of the Hoopers' house?

Warings

100

What is Mrs Kingshaw's first name?

Helena
100

What P + P is a recurring motif in the novel, revealing the dynamic between Hooper and Kingshaw?

Predator and Prey

100

What F does Hooper use to manipulate Kingshaw?

Fear

100

In which decade was the novel published?

1970s (1970)

200

Where does Hooper seriously injure himself in Chapter 12?

Leydell Castle

200

Which character serves as a foil to Kingshaw?

Anthony Fielding

200

What concept, beginning with F, does Hang Wood represent for Kingshaw?

Freedom

200

In his spare time, what does Hooper enjoy drawing?

Battle charts

200

Why does Kingshaw travel to London with Mr Hooper in Chapter 15?

To buy a school uniform for his new school (Hooper's school)

300

Which theme does the Red Room represent?

Imprisonment

Entrapment

Predator / Prey

Bullying


300

What is the name of the housekeeper?

Mrs Boland

300

Which dead Ms represent Hooper's love of control?

Moths
300

'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.

300

What did Broughton-Smith give to Kingshaw at school?

Warts

400

What is in the room that Kingshaw uses as his 'fortress' in Chapter 4?

Dolls

400

What did the boy called Turville make Kingshaw do at school, in his memory?

Jump into a swimming pool

400

Crows are traditionally seen as harbingers of...

Death

Doom

Misfortune

400

Name two things that appear in Kingshaw's nightmares

Puppets, Crows, The blind man in the film

400

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

500

What is the name of the town nearest to Warings?

Derne

500

What did Deputy Senior Prefect Lesage make Kingshaw do at school?

Lie on the floor with his eyes shut

500

Bullying, fear, and power-games in the novel are reinforced by recurring imagery of b_____

Birds

500

'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)

500

'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