The Epigraphs in The Silkworm Quiz
This week’s quiz is themed on our latest feature about epigraphs in The Silkworm. Can you answer all the questions correctly?
Question 1 of 12
What Latin poet does Strike quote to Michael Fancourt in the Groucho Club?
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Question 3 of 12
Where do Strike and Robin manage to ‘speak openly’ one to another’?
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Question 4 of 12
In what magazine does the well-bred Charlotte Campbell lie about looking forward to becoming a step-mummy?
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Question 5 of 12
Who does Strike wake up early in the morning on the day the investigation begins?
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Question 6 of 12
At what pub with literary associations does Strike meet the ‘woman of excellent assurance’ Nina Lascelles?
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Question 7 of 12
What is the title of Michael Fancourt’s first novel, which is also the name of the heroine of ‘The Honest Whore’?
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Question 8 of 12
What character in Bombyx Mori, named like many in the plays quoted, does Michael Fancourt say is based on him?
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Question 9 of 12
Where is the tattling Christian Fletcher’s publishing house based?
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Question 10 of 12
In the reign of which monarch was Michael Fancourt’s house built, and some of the early plays quoted written?
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Question 11 of 12
Who tells Strike that Quine used the silkworm, Bombyx Mori, as a metaphor for a writer?
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Question 12 of 12
Where does Strike confront Quine’s killer in the chapter with the only epigraph from The Revenger’s Tragedy?
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