A. Hero Pavloussi
B. Cecil Cutbush
C. Boo Hollingrake
D. Don Lethbridge
✅ The correct answer is option D.
SSC MCQs
Who was born a hunchbacked female in The Vivisector?
A. Katherine Volkov
B. Rhoda Courtney
C. Alfreda Courtney
D. Hero Pavloussi
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Obsession over what substance has led many people into a frenzy over the state of their stocks in Cry, the Beloved Country?
A. Coal
B. Gold
C. Oil
D. Opals
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Nance Lightfoot dies when she
A. is killed by a gunman
B. meets with a traffic accident
C. falls to the rocks below Hurtle’s shack
D. poisoned by Hurtle’s mother
✅ The correct answer is option C.
The sole passion of Hurtle Duffield was
A. art
B. women
C. reading
D. travelling
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Napoleon Letsitsi, an agricultural expert hired by James Jarvis to assist the people of Ndotsheni, states that he works for whom?
A. the people of Africa
B. the people who pay his salary
C. the villagers of Ndotsheni
D. the nation of South Africa
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Hurtle’s inspiration for his art was
A. the chaos of World War I
B. his poverty-ridden childhood
C. his many lovers
D. other great artists
✅ The correct answer is option C.
At the end of the novel, The Vivisector, what happens to Hurtle Duffield?
A. He accepts a knighthood and regained wealth
B. He teaches his protégé everything he knows
C. He reconciles with his family
D. He dies with a paintbrush in his hand
✅ The correct answer is option D.
When Stephen Kumalo returns from Johannesburg to Ndotsheni, he brings two people with him. Who are these people?
A. his son Absolom and his wife
B. his sister Gertrude and his son Absolom’s wife
C. his sister Gertrude’s son and his son Absolom’s wife
D. his sister Gertrude and her son
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Hurtle has a series of affairs with women he cannot love because
A. all these women are ugly
B. he is afraid falling in love would be too consuming
C. he enjoys the company of many women
D. he cannot settle for just one woman
✅ The correct answer is option B.