The Cuckoo’s Calling Epigraphs Quiz
This week’s quiz is themed on our latest feature about epigraphs in The Cuckoo’s Calling. Can you answer all the questions correctly?
Question 1 of 12
In what part of town did Lula Landry die tragically young in a fall from her flat?
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Question 2 of 12
In what season, not mentioned in the poem which introduces the book, does she die?
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Question 3 of 12
Whose death in Highgate Cemetery, where poet Christina Rossetti is buried, leads to an investigation five years after Strike and Robin start working together?
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Question 4 of 12
In what language are all the epigraphs, other than Rossetti’s poem, written?
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Question 6 of 12
During the investigation into the death of writer Owen Quine (The Silkworm) who does Strike flummox with Catullus in the Groucho Club?
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Question 7 of 12
Who wrote the poem that Strike remembers at the end of the book, which includes the line ‘I am become a name’?
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Question 8 of 12
Where in London did Charlotte Campbell have her maisonette, before Strike, ‘the unfortunate man… who has been happy’ leaves her and ends up sleeping in the office?
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Question 9 of 12
Who does Robin, no stranger to trouble, look after in the office at the end of her first week?
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Question 10 of 12
In what river is a body found which the police, in their folly, refuse to believe is connected to Lula’s death?
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Question 11 of 12
Who owns the house where Strike falls downstairs as he comes to understand ‘the causes of things’?
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Question 12 of 12
What is the name of Robin’s fiancé who is unlikely to see her permanent job with Strike as an ‘unmixed blessing’?
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