Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Atonement? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which of the following plans work out in the novel?
Briony gets Cecilia and Robbie to forgive her.
Robbie becomes a doctor.
Paul Marshall sells lots of chocolate bars to the government.
Jackson and Pierrot ambush Betty and throw her in the fountain.
Q. Briony says that she alters reality in her novel by
having dinosaurs crush the Tallis house.
giving The Trials of Arabella one last successful performance.
giving Cecilia and Robbie a happy ending.
having the British retreat to Dunkirk.
Q. Writing and sex are linked in the novel when
Briony records her sexual experiences in her journal at the hospital.
Emily Tallis sings passages from Lady Chatterly's Lover out loud to the servants.
Robbie accidentally writes a sexually explicit letter to Cecilia.
Paul Marshall writes a letter confessing to his sexual assault on Lola.
Q. Of the following, the character in the novel who shows the greatest capacity for compassion and forgiveness is
Paul Marshall.
Cecilia.
Leon.
the big stone fish in the pond.
Q. What is one sign that the idyllic Tallis family is not really so idyllic?
Jack Tallis is having an affair.
Emily Tallis jumps into the fountain in her underwear.
Briony wets her bed.
Aunt Venus is kept imprisoned in a room in the attic.