The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Question 1

During their tour of the poor district Sandy is puzzled by a small woman who says to a wife-beater, “I’ll be your...”

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Man

Question 2

When the narrative flashes forward, who does Eunice Gardener tell her husband Miss Brodie once fell for?

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An Egyptian courier

Question 3

A detail which makes us feel that Miss Brodie has an intellectual life of her own outside of teaching.

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She attends evening classes in comparative religion at Univerisity.

Question 4

How does Sandy acquire fame in later years?

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By publishing a psychological treatise.

Question 5

Miss Lockhart the science teacher is described as this.

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Beautiful, Thrilling

Question 6

Jenny says her mum complains that Miss Brodie...

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Gives us too much freedom.

Question 7

The Italian poet whom Miss Brodie shows the girls a painting of.

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Dante

Question 8

Miss Brodie holds science in higher regard than art.

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False

Question 9

Miss Brodie adjudges Rose to be this for her remark about Miss MacKay’s red, vein-filled face.

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Disloyal

Question 10

A word used to describe Miss Brodie’s educational philosophy.

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Subversive, Seditious

Question 11

Sandy thinks Miss Brodie’s disapproval of the Girl Guides might stem from her secret admiration for them.

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False

Question 12

The reference to Mary MacGregor’s death in an hotel fire at the age of 23 could be described as....

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Proleptic

Question 13

Sandy says that she thinks Miss Brodie...

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Takes an interest in our general knowledge.

Question 14

The art master, Teddy Lloyd’s ‘most wonderful’ feature...

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He only has one arm

Question 15

Sandy’s name as a nun is ‘Sister Helena of the ...’

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Transfiguration

Question 16

There aren’t many women like Miss Brodie during the nineteen-thirties.

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False

Question 17

Something Miss Brodie does NOT deem vulgar in Chapter 3

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Poor table manners

Question 18

Miss Brodie’s contempt for the Girl Guides strikes Sandy as curiously inconsistent with her admiration for...

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Mussolini’s marching troops

Question 19

Miss Brodie differs from the other teaching staff at Marcia Blaine’s in that...

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She is open to learning and development.

Question 20

Miss Brodie subscribes to the etymological definition of ‘education’, meaning ‘to impart knowledge’.

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False

Questions 20