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You may have seen Dennis Lehane portraying himself on several episodes of the television series "Castle". A number of his mystery/thrillers have been made into movies (for which, despite his screenwriting experience, he chose not to write the scripts): Clint Eastwood directed "Mystic River" in 2003; Ben Affleck directed both "Gone Baby Gone (2007) and "Live by Night" (2016); Martin Scorsese was responsible for the 2010 adaptation of "Shutter Island".
3 Dennis Lehane quizzes and 50 Dennis Lehane trivia questions.
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  Shutter Island    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
A quiz on "Shutter Island," the psychological thriller by Dennis Lehane.
Average, 15 Qns, closetpoet17, Jul 17 21
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  "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This book is very good. Read it if you haven't, and if you haven't don't take this quiz. If you have you ought to know most of these answers. Just so you know, the book is set in 1954. Enjoy!
Average, 10 Qns, Pejikr, Sep 30 11
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  "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane    
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
This novel was recently made into a movie by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, and Laura Linney. The movie is amazing because it sticks closely to the incredible book. This quiz is based solely on the book.
Average, 25 Qns, hungreee, Mar 07 10
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trivia question Quick Question
The journal entry at the beginning of the book is written nearly 40 years after the rest of the book's events by what character?

From Quiz "Shutter Island"





Dennis Lehane Trivia Questions
1. The book begins with a description of the father of Teddy, the main character. What was his father's occupation?

From Quiz "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: Fisherman

The bank took his boat in 1931, when Teddy was eleven. Teddy's father spent the remainder of his life working for hire on other boats and on the dock, unloading freight, when the boats didn't have work. Teddy, when he was very young, had been taken out to the islands by his father. Shutter Island was one of those islands, and Teddy asked his father why it was named Shutter. His father said it was probably pirates that got Shutter its name. Since then Teddy never liked the water.

2. The journal entry at the beginning of the book is written nearly 40 years after the rest of the book's events by what character?

From Quiz Shutter Island

Answer: Dr. Sheehan

Sheehan, the "elusive" doctor, is actually in plain sight of Teddy for most of the four days at Shutter Island. He is disguised as Chuck Aule, the partner sent with him on his investigation.

3. The entire story takes place in a neighborhood in what major city?

From Quiz "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: Boston

The story is set in the Boston neighborhood of East Buckingham.

4. In order to get to Shutter Island, the US Marshals, Teddy and his partner Chuck, took the ferry. When they got to the island who greeted them?

From Quiz "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: Deputy Warden McPherson

Orderlies, mostly black men, and some white guys, were with him. As his position went, he was young. McPherson's blond hair was slightly longer than the norm at the time. McPherson studied their US Marshal's badges and said he wasn't sure if he had seen one before.

5. How old are Jimmy, Dave, and Sean when the story begins?

From Quiz "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: 11

The boys are 11 years old and have been friends for one year because Jimmy and Sean's father both work for the same place, but in very different positions.

6. What exactly was Shutter Island's main purpose?

From Quiz "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: An asylum for the criminally insane

It used to be a POW Camp, back in the US Civil War. A fort and barracks were built by the Army. Not too many buildings were still standing at the time of the book. The asylum on the island used the old troop quarters. The asylum's name was Ashecliffe.

7. What happened to Teddy's wife, Dolores, two years ago?

From Quiz Shutter Island

Answer: She died in a fire in their apartment building.

Teddy tells Chuck that she didn't die from burns from the fire, but that the smoke killed her instead, so "she didn't die in pain," something that seems very important to him.

8. When the car approaches them on the street only one of the boys actually gets into it. Name him.

From Quiz "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: David&Dave

Only Dave gets into the car thus setting the basis for the rest of the entire story.

9. Teddy and Chuck's assignment was to find a missing patient. What was the name of the patient?

From Quiz "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: Rachel Solando

When they got to talk to Dr. Cawley, the head Doctor and psychologist at the island, Teddy looked through his notebook. He read aloud that she escaped within the last 24 hours. She had escaped the previous night, between 10 o'clock and midnight. She still hadn't been found. Rachel was a war widow, she drowned her three children in the lake behind her house. She still thought they were alive.

10. What is the name of the asylum on Shutter Island?

From Quiz Shutter Island

Answer: Ashecliffe&Ashecliffe Hospital&Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane

The full name is Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, but it is mostly referred to simply as Ashecliffe.

11. When we jump to the present who is the first person we meet?

From Quiz "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: Brendan

In the present we meet Brendan who is thinking of how in love he is with Katie and their plans to elope.

12. Teddy and Chuck visited and examined Rachel's room, along with Dr. Cawley. What did Teddy find there that contained a code?

From Quiz "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: a sheet of paper

The sheet of paper read: THE LAW OF 4 I AM 47 THEY WERE 80 +YOU ARE 3 WE ARE 4 BUT WHO IS 67? Teddy says he thinks they could be three, him, Chuck, and Dr. Cawley. Teddy says it would be a reach that Rachel could predict that after Chuck asked him how she could.

13. What did Teddy first notice that Rachel Solando left behind when she escaped her room?

From Quiz Shutter Island

Answer: Two pairs of shoes

He asked Cawley how many pairs of shoes each patient had, and the doctor's answer confirmed his suspicion; Rachel escaped barefoot. Teddy finds this strange because it would be nearly impossible for someone with no shoes to navigate the rocky, thorny terrain that covers most of the island.

14. How old is Katie Marcus?

From Quiz "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: 19

Katie is 19 and has been out of school for a year. She's in love with Brendan and planning to elope with him to Las Vegas.

15. What event triggers Teddy's breaking of Rachel's code?

From Quiz "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: A dream

The dream involved Teddy's wife, Dolores, coming towards him down the hallway. She had found one of his stashes of beer and asked him if he was ever sober. Teddy couldn't speak and couldn't see or feel his body. Dolores's back was charred and slightly smoldering. Then they went to the window and Dolores told him that he could not leave, and that Rachel and Andrew were on the island. Andrew was the man who lit the match that caused the fire that killed Dolores. Teddy pleaded with her to stay, but Dolores told him that he had to let her go. The dream ended with Teddy holding her. Teddy woke up at five o'clock, grabbed his notebook where he had written Rachel's code, and began to break it. It took him until six o'clock.

16. Why was Rachel Solando committed to the asylum?

From Quiz Shutter Island

Answer: She killed her three kids

Allegedly, she drowned her kids in a lake.

17. What is the name of the tavern where Katie dances on top of the bar?

From Quiz "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: McGills

It was at McGill's. Every bar listed is an actual stop they made that night, but McGill's is where they danced on the bar.

18. Who is Katie's stepmother?

From Quiz "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: Annabeth&Anna Beth&Anna

Jimmy is Katie's father and Marita was her mother, Marita died when Katie was five and Jimmy married Annabeth.

19. Teddy and Chuck left Ward C to go the lighthouse. Teddy and Chuck got separated after Teddy climbed down some rocks to code them. Teddy went looking for Chuck and went into a cave. Who did he find in that cave?

From Quiz "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: Rachel Solando

Rachel told him that she never had children and that she was never married. She said she was "more than just a patient." Teddy asked her how she could be. She said she was the first female doctor at Ashecliffe. She said that they did lobotomies on patients at Ashecliffe and that she protested. They couldn't let her leave, though. She said that they were creating what she called "ghosts" at Ashecliffe, people that couldn't feel pain, love, or sympathy, and had a wiped memory bank. Teddy fell asleep, and, after waking up, left Rachel in the cave. Before he left, Rachel said he would never leave and that he had no friends.

20. What did Bridget Kearns write in Teddy's notebook?

From Quiz Shutter Island

Answer: run

Teddy was interviewing her about Solando's disappearance and Chuck had left the table when she took his notebook and wrote in it.

21. What is the name of the corner store that Jimmy owns?

From Quiz "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: Cottage Market

Just Cottage Market. Jim is a simple guy.

22. Teddy made his way to the lighthouse, which wasn't easy, where Dr. Cawley was. While he was there Chuck came up too. What do Chuck and Dr. Cawley reveal to him?

From Quiz "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: They were trying to make him realize he was Andrew Laeddis

Chuck tells him that he is really Dr. Lester Sheehan, his psychologist for the past two years. Dr. Cawley told him that he basically been in his own play for two years, and the ending was him reaching the lighthouse. Teddy had given Sheehan the name Chuck Aule. Everything in the story of his investigation had been faked. They had been trying to bring him back to believe he was his true self through the experiment because they thought lobotomy was not the way to do it. They told him if he did not realize he was Andrew Laeddis, he was going to be lobotomized. Then they try to reason with him, they told him he had assaulted George Noyce two weeks before. They told him Noyce had called him Laeddis, but Teddy/Andrew had thought he had been referring to him and Laeddis, not just him, which Noyce was. They told him he had murdered Dolores. Teddy didn't believe them, and he was brought to Ward C.

23. Where did Teddy and Chuck find Rachel Solando?

From Quiz Shutter Island

Answer: They didn't - Cawley did

She was "found" while Teddy and Chuck were out in the storm.

24. What did Sean grow up to become?

From Quiz "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: a State Trooper

Sean is a State Trooper.

25. What did Teddy want to do at the end?

From Quiz "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: Get off Shutter Island

He told Chuck he wanted to find a way off the island to get them home. Chuck said he predicted he wanted that. Teddy asked him if he had any ideas. Chuck said to give him a minute. Then Chuck raised his hand and shook his head at Dr. Cawley at the same time, then Cawley said something to the warden and they started walking towards Teddy with four orderlies behind him. One of the orderlies was holding a white bundle. Teddy asked Chuck if he thought they were on to them. Chuck said he and Teddy were too smart for that. Teddy said they were.

26. When Dolores appeared in Teddy's dreams, what was consistently wrong with her?

From Quiz Shutter Island

Answer: There was a hole in her belly spilling out liquid

This symbolized the blood from Teddy - in reality Andrew Laeddis - shooting her.

27. Where is Katie's body found?

From Quiz "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: inside Pen Park

Katie is behind the drive-in movie screen in Pen Park.

28. When Dave comes home covered in blood what does he tell Celeste happened?

From Quiz "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: "I was mugged"

He tells Celeste that a crackhead tried to mug him and quotes the guy as saying "Your wallet or your life, I'm leaving with one of them." Celeste thinks that's something you'd only hear in a bad movie or tv show...and she's right.

29. Who does Teddy meet in a cave?

From Quiz Shutter Island

Answer: A woman who was a doctor at the asylum

She tells him that the hospital staff have been drugging him through the food, coffee, and cigarettes he's been given.

30. When Sean and Whitey begin the investigation who is the first person they suspect in Katie's murder?

From Quiz "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane

Answer: Bobby O'Donnell

They think Bobby might have hired someone to kill Katie or did it himself. They go question Roman and find out that Bobby was in jail the night Katie died and his crew have alibis. The murder seems too brutal to be an impersonal hit...so they move on to Brendan and Dave as potential suspects.

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