Brighton Rock

Question 1

“Hale … him”

part 1, page 3

Answer 1

“Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him”

Question 2

“a face … pride”

part 1, page 5

Answer 2

“a face of starved intensity, a kind of hideous and unnatural pride”

Question 3

“he … distaste”

part 1, page 6

Answer 3

“he was watching the woman with an expression of furious distaste”

Question 4

“one of … himself”

part 1, page 25

Answer 4

“one of those girls who creep about, he thought, as if they were afraid of their own footsteps: a pale thin girl younger than himself”

Question 5

“he smiled … naturalness”

part 1, page 26

Answer 5

“he smiled at her stiffly; he couldn’t use those muscles with any naturalness”

Question 6

“the easy … heart”

part 1, page 33

Answer 6

“the easy pathos touched her friendly and popular heart”

Question 7

“let … flippancy”

part 1, page 35

Answer 7

“let Papists treat death with flippancy”

Question 8

“there … optimism”

part 1, page 35

Answer 8

“there was something dangerous and remorseless in her optimism”

Question 9

“an … eye”

part 1, page 36

Answer 9

“an eye for an eye”

Question 10

“I … wrong”

part 1, page 43

Answer 10

“I believe in right and wrong”

Question 11

“the word … giraffe”

part 2, page 47

Answer 11

“the word murder conveyed no more to him than the word ‘box’, ‘collar’, ‘giraffe’”

Question 12

“faint … fingers”

part 2, page 48

Answer 12

“faint, secret, sensual pleasure he felt, touching the bottle of vitriol with his fingers”

Question 13

“the eyes … two”

part 2, page 52

Answer 13

“the eyes which had never been young stared with grey contempt into the eyes which had only just begun to learn a thing or two”

Question 14

“these … damnation”

part 2, page 55

Answer 14

“these atheists, they don’t know nothing. Of course there’s Hell. Flames and damnation”

Question 15

“the … Colleoni’s”

part 2, page 68

Answer 15

“the visible world was all Mr. Colleoni’s”

Question 16

“I don’t … way”

part 2, page 69

Answer 16

“I don’t mind you carving each other up in a quiet way”

Question 17

“hell … deaths”

part 2, page 70

Answer 17

“hell lay about him in his infancy. He was ready for more deaths”

Question 18

“he … claims”

part 3, page 95

Answer 18

“he thought he had made his escape, and here his home was: back beside him making claims”

Question 19

“it was … safe”

part 4, page 116

Answer 19

“it was impossible to repent of something which made him safe”

Question 20

“I … suffer”

part 4, page 130

Answer 20

“I don’t want the innocent to suffer”

Question 21

“the small … world”

part 4, page 131

Answer 21

“the small animal peered out at the bright and breezy world”

Question 22

“perhaps … out”

part 4, page 136

Answer 22

“perhaps when they christened me, the holy water didn’t take. I never howled the devil out”

Question 23

“nobody … crime”

part 5, page 156

Answer 23

“nobody could say he hadn’t done right to get away from this, to commit any crime”

Question 24

“he was … blood”

part 5, page 163

Answer 24

“he was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood”

Question 25

“the … mattered”

part 5, page 164

Answer 25

“the hunt was what mattered”

Question 26

“the … malaria”

part 6, page 181

Answer 26

“the word ‘fun’ shook the boy like malaria”

Question 27

“I wanted … you”

part 6, page 183

Answer 27

“I wanted to be in a state of grace when I married you”

Question 28

“suddenly … weep”

part 6, page 196

Answer 28

“suddenly, inexplicably, the Boy began to weep”

Question 29

“the ribs … unrepentance”

part 6, page 196

Answer 29

“the ribs of his body were like steel bands which held him down to eternal unrepentance”

Question 30

“she … sin”

part 7, page 207

Answer 30

“she was a stranger in the country of mortal sin”

Question 31

“she … pride”

part 7, page 211

Answer 31

“she expected to feel shame, but it didn’t come - only again the odd swell of pride”

Question 32

“he discovered … all”

part 7, page 232

Answer 32

“he discovered in himself an odd nostalgia for the darkest act of all”

Question 33

“an enormous … glass”

part 7, page 261

Answer 33

“an enormous emotion beat on him; it was like something was trying to get in; the pressure of gigantic wings against the glass”

Question 34

“shrank … pain”

part 7, page 264

Answer 34

“shrank into a school-boy flying in panic and pain”

Question 35

“it was … nothing”

part 7, page 264

Answer 35

“it was as if he’d been withdrawn suddenly by a hand out of any existence - past or present, whipped away into zero - nothing”

Question 36

“but … everything”

part 7, page 265

Answer 36

“but Ida Arnold had an answer for everything”

Question 37

“like a … victory”

part 7, page 266

Answer 37

“like a figurehead of victory”

Question 38

“I’m … damned”

part 7, page 267

Answer 38

“I’m not asking for absolution. I don’t want absolution. I want to be like him - damned”

Question 39

“walked … of all”

part 7, page 269

Answer 39

“walked rapidly … towards the worst horror of all”