The Bloody Chamber

Question 1

‘I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away’

Answer 1

P6

Question 2

‘I seemed reborn in his unreflective eyes, reborn in unfamiliar shapes’

Answer 2

P17

Question 3

‘I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world’

Answer 3

P4

Question 4

‘I was innocent but not naive’

Answer 4

P13

Question 5

‘I hardly recognised myself’

Answer 5

P7

Question 6

‘Courage, when I thought of courage, I thought of my mother’

Answer 6

P38

Question 7

‘I saw him watching me in the gilded mirrors with the assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horse flesh, or even of a housewife in the market, inspecting cuts on the slab’

Answer 7

P6

Question 8

‘I was only a baby’

Answer 8

P17

Question 9

‘His eyes veiled over yet his appetite did not diminish’

Answer 9

P34

Question 10

‘I shall grow hungrier, more ravenous with each moment, more cruel’

Answer 10

P39

Question 11

‘I lay in bed alone. And I longed for him’

Answer 11

P19

Question 12

‘You never saw such a wild thing as my mother’

Answer 12

P40

Question 13

‘Ruby choker’

Question 14

‘I felt myself stirring’

Question 15

‘There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer’

Question 16

‘My virgin of the arpeggios, prepare yourself for martyrdom’

Question 17

‘My branded forefead’

Question 18

‘I had, in some way, ceased to be her child in becoming his wife’

Question 19

‘Into marriage, into exile’

Question 20

‘My purchaser unwrapped his bargain’