Q 01/05

Who won an Academy Award for playing the rebellious patient Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted?

A) Charlize Theron

B) Angelina Jolie

C) Kate Winslet

D) Christina Ricci

Answer · why

B) Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie also took the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for the part, sweeping the season. Time Out's reviewer wrote that the film wi...

Q 02/05

The title of Susanna Kaysen's memoir Girl, Interrupted comes from a painting by which Dutch master?

A) Rembrandt van Rijn

B) Frans Hals

C) Johannes Vermeer

D) Jan Steen

Answer · why

C) Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer painted Girl Interrupted at Her Music, and Kaysen draws a parallel between the girl's broken-off lesson and her own interrupted youth...

Q 03/05

Which poet was a patient, years before Susanna Kaysen, at the real hospital in Girl, Interrupted?

A) Sylvia Plath

B) Elizabeth Bishop

C) Emily Dickinson

D) Adrienne Rich

Answer · why

A) Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath drew on her stay for The Bell Jar, her only novel, which first appeared under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas.

Q 04/05

In Girl, Interrupted, Susanna's boyfriend Toby has just been drafted to serve in which war?

A) Korean War

B) World War II

C) Gulf War

D) Vietnam War

Answer · why

D) Vietnam War

Vietnam War call-ups shadow the story's late-1960s setting, and Toby turns up at the hospital with a plan to dodge his.

Q 05/05

In Girl, Interrupted, Daisy Randone hides the carcasses of which food, brought to her by her father?

A) Chicken

B) Turkey

C) Duck

D) Lobster

Answer · why

A) Chicken

Chicken is all Daisy will eat, and only alone in her room. In Kaysen's memoir she says it will be time to go home once she has collected 14 carcasses.