Q 01/05

What are the sheltered Hailsham students of Never Let Me Go created to do once they reach adulthood?

A) Donate their vital organs

B) Serve as domestic staff

C) Fight in overseas wars

D) Replace infertile parents

Answer · why

A) Donate their vital organs

Donate their vital organs is the truth the guardians only hint at: the students give organs one at a time, and a fourth donation is usually fatal.

Q 02/05

Which English county do Never Let Me Go's students half-believe is a 'lost corner' where lost things end up?

A) Suffolk

B) Norfolk

C) Cornwall

D) Yorkshire

Answer · why

B) Norfolk

Norfolk, in the students' long-held idea, is the lost corner of England where misplaced things go, and at the very end Kathy drives there to imagine e...

Q 03/05

Ramsey Campbell, a prolific writer of which genre, called Never Let Me Go one of its best novels since 2000?

A) Horror

B) Crime

C) Fantasy

D) Romance

Answer · why

A) Horror

Horror, Campbell argued, is exactly what the book is: 'a classic instance of a story that's horrifying, precisely because the narrator doesn't think i...

Q 04/05

Ishiguro found the title Never Let Me Go on the sleeve of a solo album, Alone, by which jazz pianist?

A) Keith Jarrett

B) Oscar Peterson

C) Bill Evans

D) Thelonious Monk

Answer · why

C) Bill Evans

Bill Evans's solo record Alone, taped in 1968 and released in 1970, carries a fourteen-minute version of the standard, a song written by Jay Livingsto...

Q 05/05

Ishiguro's early drafts of Never Let Me Go, before cloning entered the story, hinged on a plot about which weapon?

A) A nerve agent

B) A nuclear bomb

C) A plague virus

D) A laser satellite

Answer · why

B) A nuclear bomb

A nuclear bomb was the original device until Ishiguro wondered what the 20th century would look like if its great breakthroughs had come in biology an...