Setting

Question 1

Oxford

Answer 1

Oxford - submerged now and obliterated, irrecoverable as Lyonesse, so quickly have the waters come flooding in - Oxford in those days, was still a city of aquatint

Question 2

The second year begins

Answer 2

It is typical of oxford (…) to start the new year in autumn

Question 3

The location of Aloysius

Answer 3

The toy bear Aloysius sat unregarded on the chest-of-drawers in Sebastian’s room

Question 4

R R GARNETT

Answer 4

In mourning oxford, Ryder mourns his own youth as well

Question 5

A new and secret

Answer 5

Landscape opened for us

Question 6

The whole interior

Answer 6

Had been gutted, elaborately refurnished and redecorated in the arts and crafts style of the last decade of the nineteenth century

Question 7

Gave it the peculiar propriety

Answer 7

Of seeming to have been moulded in plasticine

Question 8

Julia said: here in

Answer 8

Here in the shadows, in the corner of the stair - a minute to say goodbye

Question 9

Blayac

Answer 9

He has not given up the struggle, but he lacks the means to pursue it effectively. Not until the end of the Prologue, when the landscape of the AS yet unnamed Brideshead reminds him that there is another possible then and there”

Question 10

Waugh in the preface of the 1959 edition abt the house

Answer 10

During war war it seemed that “ the ancestral sears which were our chief national artistic achievement were doomed to decay and spoliation(…) so I piled it on rather, with passionate sincerity

Question 11

Venice passed

Answer 11

Quickly and sweetly - perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning In honey, stingless

Question 12

Morocco

Driving

Answer 12

Driving that day, mile after mile

Question 13

Walls of the ship

Answer 13

And between the walls were yards and yards of biscuit-coloured wood which no carpenter’s tool had ever touched