Q 01/05

Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera first appeared in 1909 as what?

A) A stage melodrama

B) A newspaper serial

C) An opera libretto

D) A magazine short story

Answer · why

B) A newspaper serial

A newspaper serial in the Paris daily Le Gaulois, which ran it from September 1909 to January 1910; Leroux, a former reporter, framed it as his own in...

Q 02/05

In Leroux's novel, what name does the Phantom of the Opera go by?

A) Émile

B) Étienne

C) Erik

D) Ernest

Answer · why

C) Erik

Erik is a name he says he took 'by accident'; the epilogue adds that he was a master-mason's son from near Rouen who ran away as a boy and was exhibit...

Q 03/05

Christine Daaé, the young soprano at the centre of Leroux's novel, comes from which country?

A) Norway

B) Denmark

C) Austria

D) Sweden

Answer · why

D) Sweden

Sweden, near Uppsala, where her father was a village fiddler; his tales of an Angel of Music are what later let the Phantom pose as her heaven-sent si...

Q 04/05

In Leroux's novel, how is the mysterious opera regular who leads Raoul to the Phantom's lair known?

A) The Turk

B) The Persian

C) The Inspector

D) The Stagehand

Answer · why

B) The Persian

The Persian is a former police chief who once saved the Phantom's life in Persia and followed him to Paris; the musical drops him and hands what he kn...

Q 05/05

Gaston Leroux set The Phantom of the Opera in which real Paris building?

A) Opéra Bastille

B) Opéra-Comique

C) Théâtre du Châtelet

D) Palais Garnier

Answer · why

D) Palais Garnier

Palais Garnier hides the Phantom's home because, the epilogue reveals, he helped to build it: he won a contract for part of the foundations and walled...