Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Atonement? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. The epigraph refers to Northanger Abbey because, like Briony, the heroine in that book
writes a play that never gets produced.
has a tragic love affair.
falsely accuses someone.
arranges Beethoven sonatas for ukulele and trombone.
Q. It is implied that Robbie has been opening his copy of Gray's Anatomy to the illustration of
the brain, to try to figure out what is wrong with Briony.
the female genitalia, because he is obsessed with Cecilia.
the television medical drama featuring Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey.
the abdomen, so he can try to care for his shrapnel wound.
Q. Robbie compares himself to Malvolio in Twefth Night because Malvolio
wanted to be a doctor.
smashed vases with his forehead like a professional wrestler.
acted ridiculously because he was in love.
fought with the British Expeditionary Force.
Q. Briony admires Virginia Woolf's The Waves because
it is about bodies of water and fountains.
it focuses on states of consciousness rather than plot.
it focuses on plot rather than states of consciousness.
it is a fat, sturdy book, suitable for beating Nurse Drummond about the head and shoulders.
Q. Cyril Connolly was a real person. In the novel he
is a publisher who tells Briony that she can't print her novel without being sued.
is an opera producer who stages a version of The Trials of Arabella with helicopters and live tigers.
is a poet whose work Robbie admires.
is the editor of Horizon, a magazine which rejects Briony's novella.