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Jasper Fforde - Shades of Grey

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Jasper Fforde  Shades of Grey game quiz
"'Shades of Grey' is Jasper Fforde's first novel in the 'Chromagencia' series - how much did you notice?"

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1. Which town does the action open in?
    Vermillion
    Crimson Lake
    East Carmine
    Heliotrope


2. Why didn't the collapsed Ultraviolet in the National Colour shop respond to Mr Russet's treatment?
    He was blind
    He had the Mildew
    He wasn't an Ultraviolet
    He was faking illness


3. Why has Eddie been sent to the village of East Carmine?
    To conduct a chair census
    To help repair the synthetic colour supply
    To hunt Bouncing Goats
    To harvest Yateveo trees


4. Eddie goes to the ruined village of Rusty Hill to recover a lost oil painting -'Frowny Girl Removing Beardy's Head'. Who is it by?
    Turner
    Vermeer
    Kandinsky
    Caravaggio


5. What material is not absorbed by the pre-'Something That Happened' Perpetualite roads?
    Steel
    Copper
    Flesh
    Yateveo stems


6. Children in the Collective must attend school until they are sixteen or until they meet what other condition?
    Until deemed too stupid to educate further
    Until they have learned everything
    Until socially useful
    Until they acquire too many demerits


7. What is the most feared predator of people in the England of the Collective?
    Yateveos
    Giant Swans
    Asimov Horse
    Rhinosaurus


8. There is a strange, occasionally naked and possibly insane lodger in Eddie's house. What is his name?
    Baxter
    Wapcaplett
    Hubond
    Haynes


9. What are the wandering nomads that live outside of the Collective known as to its citizens?
    Hoipolloi
    Pikeys
    Riffraff
    Outcast


10. What useful utensil did Eddie bring back from the High Saffron expedition?
    The spork
    The rotary cultivator
    The hovermower
    The postage stamp


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