Q 01/05

What sends the women of Jacob's camp into the title shelter of Anita Diamant's The Red Tent for three days?

A) A death in the camp

B) Their monthly periods

C) The spring sheep-shearing

D) Their betrothal feasts

Answer · why

B) Their monthly periods

Their monthly periods bring the women there to rest together, and they give birth there too. Diamant acknowledges no evidence that ancient Hebrews rea...

Q 02/05

Dinah, the narrator of The Red Tent, has her story told in a single brief chapter of which book of the Bible?

A) Genesis

B) Exodus

C) Leviticus

D) Judges

Answer · why

A) Genesis

Genesis tells Dinah's story in a single chapter, its thirty-fourth, and she never speaks a word in it. The novel hands the telling to her.

Q 03/05

In The Red Tent, which calling does Dinah learn from her aunt Rachel and later practice in Egypt?

A) Bread baking

B) Wool spinning

C) Midwifery

D) Beer brewing

Answer · why

C) Midwifery

Midwifery, learned at the side of Rachel and the healer Inna, becomes Dinah's living in Egypt. A friend there spreads word of the gifted foreigner.

Q 04/05

Which Swedish actress, later Ilsa Faust in Mission: Impossible, played Dinah in the miniseries The Red Tent?

A) Alicia Vikander

B) Noomi Rapace

C) Izabella Scorupco

D) Rebecca Ferguson

Answer · why

D) Rebecca Ferguson

Rebecca Ferguson played Dinah a year before her breakout as Ilsa Faust opposite Tom Cruise. She went on to play Lady Jessica in the Dune films.

Q 05/05

In The Red Tent, as in the Bible, Dinah's brother Joseph rises from slavery to which high office in Egypt?

A) Vizier

B) Pharaoh

C) High priest

D) Treasurer

Answer · why

A) Vizier

Vizier is the post Joseph holds, under an Egyptian name, when Dinah is summoned to his house. Only there does she learn who he is.