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1.	Tom Ripley’s adventures all stem from his borrowing of a what?
		a jacket
		a tie
		a pair of cufflinks
		a wristwatch

2.	Ripley is asked by industrialist Herbert Greenleaf to go to Italy and bring back his son, Dickie. Dickie’s idea of music is jazz, but to Greenleaf Sr., jazz is just what?
		an appalling commotion
		a disreputable hobby
		insolent noise
		an insult to the senses

3.	Name the actor who plays Herbert Greenleaf.
		James Cromwell
		Chris Cooper
		James Rebhorn
		Tom Wilkinson

4.	What business is Mr Greenleaf in?
		cotton
		railroads
		petroleum
		shipbuilding

5.	What is the name of the town where Dickie is exercising his one talent – spending his allowance?
		Monteriano
		Mongibello
		Borgo
		Adano

6.	Arriving in Rome, Ripley meets a woman who is travelling under the name Randall, but whose real name is:
		Stamford – one of the oil Stamfords
		Fulton – one of the tobacco Fultons
		Logue – one of the textile Logues
		Burkhardt – one of the banking Burkhardts

7.	Ripley meets Dickie by pretending to run into him on the beach and claiming to know him from Princeton. What bight and unfortunate colour are his swim trunks in this scene?
		magenta
		lime green
		turquoise
		orange

8.	Dickie’s boat is named for a famous jazz musician. What is the boat’s name?
		Bird
		Duke
		Trane
		Lady Day

9.	When asked by Dickie what his talent is, Ripley lists three. What is not one of them?
		telling lies
		forging signatures
		impersonating practically anybody
		befriending people

10.	What name of Dickie’s fiancée?
		Marge
		Elizabeth
		Maude
		Edna

11.	Ripley also invents a fictional fiancée. What is her name?
		Dorothy
		Anne
		Susan
		Frances

12.	Ripley and Dickie hatch a scheme where Ripley will pretend to convince Dickie to return to America, and they will keep collecting Dickie’s allowance. What does Marge want to spend the money on?
		a car
		a ski trip
		an icebox
		a coffee machine

13.	Dickie takes a bath while playing a game with Ripley. What game?
		chess
		backgammon
		dominoes
		blackjack

14.	Ripley and Dickie take a trip to Rome, where they meet up with Dickie’s friend Freddie. Freddie is played by:
		Vince Vaughn
		Phillip Seymour Hoffman
		Edward Norton
		Joaquin Phoenix

15.	Freddie doesn’t like Ripley much. He makes fun of Ripley’s only jacket, which is what fabric?
		corduroy
		suede
		gabardine
		linen

16.	Mongibello is having a festival, but it’s kind of a downer when the whole town finds out the girl that Dickie has been cheating in Marge with drowns herself. What is her name?
		Silvana
		Alessandra
		Giovana
		Luciana

17.	By an amazing coincidence, Dickie decides he is sick of Mongibello and wants to move north. He also wants to cut Ripley loose, but takes one last trip with him to where?
		Portofino
		San Remo
		Vernazza
		Rimini

18.	Dickie’s also thinking of giving up the sax, and taking up what other instrument?
		piano
		bass
		trumpet
		drums

19.	Dickie tells Ripley that he’s boring and a leech who gives him the creeps. In response, Ripley repeatedly strikes and kills him with:
		an oar
		a tire iron
		a hammer
		a saxophone

20.	Ripley decides to take over Dickie’s life, but to do that he needs Dickie to break up with Marge. What gift does he bring her, from “Dickie”?
		shoes
		perfume
		a necklace
		chocolates

21.	Marge said that Dickie hates being:
		pushed
		confronted
		talked down to
		told “I love you”

22.	Ripley runs into Meredith in Rome. It is well-established that Dickie hates opera, but “Dickie” agrees to see which opera with her?
		Oedipus Rex
		Le Rossignol
		Eugene Onegin
		The Rake’s Progress

23.	Ripley buys himself a gift for Christmas – one which features prominently in the murder of Freddy Miles. What is it?
		a piano
		a clock
		a tie
		a bust

24.	Ripley decides to kill off “Dickie Greenleaf” by faking his suicide, and then escape to which city?
		Milan
		Venice
		Florence
		Verona

25.	Ripley decides to make a report to the Italian police in Venice, believing that the police from Rome will not be involved. What is the name of Marge’s friend who does the translating for him?
		Thomas Mackenzie-Phipps
		Andrew Winston-Jones
		Peter Smith-Kingsley
		John Rhys-Williams

26.	What is Peter’s profession?
		poet
		cellist
		sculptor
		conductor

27.	The Greenleafs have hired a private detective, Mr McCarron, to take over the case. Name the actor who plays him.
		William Forsyth
		Terence Stamp
		Ray Winstone
		Phillip Baker Hall

28.	Marge comes to the realisation that Ripley has killed Dickie, after finding what possession of Dickie?
		his pen
		his wristwatch
		his rings
		his cufflinks

29.	Mr McCarron doesn’t care for B.S. Doesn’t care to hear it, doesn’t care to speak it. Why did Freddie leave Princeton and come to Italy?
		he half-killed a boy
		he got a girl pregnant
		he hit a child in his car while drunk
		he was caught cheating on his exams

30.	On the boat to Athens, Ripley asks Peter to tell him some good things about Tom Ripley. What is not one of the things Peter tells him?
		Tom is talented
		Tom is not a nobody
		Tom is perfect
		Tom is crushing him