Q 01/05

In Never Let Me Go's opening Hailsham memory, Tommy throws a tantrum after being left out of which game?

A) Football

B) Rounders

C) Cricket

D) Hockey

Answer · why

A) Football

Football is the game the boys are picking teams for, and they leave Tommy out to enjoy the rage that follows; Kathy, watching from the pavilion, tries...

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 carries a fourteen-minute version of the standard; Ishiguro, who had hoped to be a songwriter before he turned to ficti...

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...