Duror

Question 1

Revulsion

Answer 1

tree of hatred and revulsion

Question 2

Childhood

Answer 2

Since childhood Duror had been repelled by anything living that had an imperfection or deformity or lack.

Question 3

Spreading

Answer 3

Do you really, he thought, see this tree growing and spreading in my mind? And is it’s fruit madness?

Question 4

Customary

Answer 4

His bleary unshaveness was so unlike his customary smooth inscrutability. They thought he must be ill: but none cared to ask.

Question 5

Dead

Answer 5

The deer was dead, but Duror did not rise triumphant: he crouched beside it, on his knees, as if he was mourning over it.

Question 6

Naked

Answer 6

Now when she saw it, naked, without it’s gay frilly clothes, squirming one legged in Duror’s huge lustful fist, it seemed to her that her daughters innocence was somehow being publicly outraged.

Question 7

Rotting

Answer 7

it was as if the rotting tree itself had moved.