Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Waves? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who starts out the book by saying, "I hear something stamping… A great beast's foot is chained. It stamps, and stamps, and stamps"?
Rhoda
Louis
Susan
Justin Bieber
Q. Who has an "absurd and violent passion" for Percival?
Um, everyone? (Percival was kind of a "god," after all)
Bernard
Neville
Susan
Q. Who turns a pebble into a voodoo doll for her piano teacher, saying, "I will bury her deep because of her fawning and ingratiating manners, because of the sixpence she gave me for keeping my knuckles flat when I played my scales. I buried her sixpence"?
Susan
Rhoda
Jinny
Betty Boop
Q. Whose mind repeatedly turns to the image of "the tree which we cannot pass" when s/he is thinking about death?
Louis
Neville
Rhoda
Percival
Q. Who observes, "The waves drummed on the shore, like turbaned warriors, like turbaned men with poisoned assegais who, whirling their arms on high, advance upon the feeding flocks, the white sheep"?
Rhoda
Jinny
Louis
The third-person omniscient narrator, who only really gets a word in edgewise in the chapter summaries