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Quiz about The Sandman Memorable Quotes
Quiz about The Sandman Memorable Quotes

"The Sandman": Memorable Quotes Quiz


Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman", despite being a graphic novel, contains many memorable quotes. Even if you've never read the series, take this quiz to enjoy the wonderful insights written by one of the foremost authors in the world today.

A multiple-choice quiz by eyhung. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
eyhung
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
376,792
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
129
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. "Sandman" features as main characters beings more powerful than Gods: the Endless. The protagonist of "Sandman" is Dream (aka the Sandman), who is responsible for giving all of the universe the capacity to dream. His Endless brothers and sisters wield powers of similar magnitude. At one point, he speaks of his Endless sister thusly:

"I find myself wondering about humanity. Their attitude towards my sister's gift is so strange ... they fear her. Dread her. Feebly they attempt to placate her. They do not love her."

Which sister of his is he talking about?
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Question 2 of 10
2. Rose Walker: "Frankly, I don't care if God exists or not."
Fiddler's Green: "I doubt He feels likewise."

Although Fiddler's Green is a dream of a place, it can also take on human form. What British author, who authored the Father Brown detective novels, is its most common guise?
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Question 3 of 10
3. Dream: "The price for getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted."

In Sandman #19, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", to which fairy queen did Dream speak these somewhat cynical words to?
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Question 4 of 10
4. The ageless Hob Gadling makes a toast:

"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists.
And may each and everyone of us give the devil his due."

The fourth collection of "Sandman" issues is titled "Season of Mists", a reference to a famous poem by John Keats. Which poem does this refer to?
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Question 5 of 10
5. Which Endless, who accompanies Dream on his quest to find their brother Destruction, says the following line:

"I knew it was going to be the last place I looked for it, so I looked there first."
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Question 6 of 10
6. Dream: "You should have gone to her funeral ... to say goodbye."
"I have not yet said goodbye to Eurydice."

What famous minstrel of Greek myth is Dream speaking to?
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Question 7 of 10
7. What word completes the following observation by Death?

"You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a _____. No more. No less."

Answer: (One Word)
Question 8 of 10
8. Which President and famed big-game hunter is described in the following quote by Prez Rickard?

"In the White House is a tiger skin rug shot and killed many years ago by ____
_______."
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Question 9 of 10
9. Complete the following quote:

Rose Walker: "Have you ever been in love? _____, isn't it?"
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Question 10 of 10
10. In the final issue, Dream says to Shakespeare:

"I wanted a tale of graceful ends...I wanted a play about a king who
... leaves his kingdom ... about a man who turns his back on magic. I am
Prince of Stories, Will, but I have no story of my own."

What was the second Shakespeare play that Dream ended up commissioning?
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "Sandman" features as main characters beings more powerful than Gods: the Endless. The protagonist of "Sandman" is Dream (aka the Sandman), who is responsible for giving all of the universe the capacity to dream. His Endless brothers and sisters wield powers of similar magnitude. At one point, he speaks of his Endless sister thusly: "I find myself wondering about humanity. Their attitude towards my sister's gift is so strange ... they fear her. Dread her. Feebly they attempt to placate her. They do not love her." Which sister of his is he talking about?

Answer: Death

Death is the second-oldest of the Endless and she is the one responsible for everything dying. However, she takes the appearance of a perky Goth-girl and delivers some of the most compassionate and thoughtful lines in the series. She is arguably the most popular character of the series.

The quote comes from Sandman issue #8 "The Sound of Her Wings", which introduces Death as a character.
2. Rose Walker: "Frankly, I don't care if God exists or not." Fiddler's Green: "I doubt He feels likewise." Although Fiddler's Green is a dream of a place, it can also take on human form. What British author, who authored the Father Brown detective novels, is its most common guise?

Answer: G. K. Chesterton

The Fiddler's Green is the dream of a pleasant, cozy afterlife for travellers (especially sailors). G. K. Chesterton was a favorite novelist of Neil Gaiman's when growing up, and he paid homage to the old master by portraying the Fiddler's Green as Chesterton in the graphic novel.

The quote comes from Sandman #14, "The Collectors", where Rose and Fiddler's Green end up in a very unusual convention.
3. Dream: "The price for getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted." In Sandman #19, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", to which fairy queen did Dream speak these somewhat cynical words to?

Answer: Titania

You might have gotten the answer if you've read Shakespeare's play of the same name! The story describes Dream approaching Shakespeare to write two plays, and then shows the premiere of the first play with the actual fairy beings it describes in attendance. Although the faeries complain that the events in play actually didn't happen, the point remains that the dream of the story will soon be considered "reality".

Illustrated by famed artist Charles Vess, the issue won a World Fantasy Award for short fiction.
4. The ageless Hob Gadling makes a toast: "To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists. And may each and everyone of us give the devil his due." The fourth collection of "Sandman" issues is titled "Season of Mists", a reference to a famous poem by John Keats. Which poem does this refer to?

Answer: Ode to Autumn

Autumn, of course, is the season of mists. Keats' poem begins:

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness /
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun /
Conspiring with him how to load and bless /
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run"
5. Which Endless, who accompanies Dream on his quest to find their brother Destruction, says the following line: "I knew it was going to be the last place I looked for it, so I looked there first."

Answer: Delirium

The youngest of the Endless, Delirium, appears to be a young girl with one blue and one green eye. Her clothes and hair constantly change color and shape, and she often speaks in riddles and incoherent ramblings. A typical quote by Delirium is :

"Have you ever spent days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telephone ice cream?...Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn't like that at all."

However, sometimes her rantings and ravings contain surprising and insightful nuggets of wisdom, which ends up influencing the plot.
6. Dream: "You should have gone to her funeral ... to say goodbye." "I have not yet said goodbye to Eurydice." What famous minstrel of Greek myth is Dream speaking to?

Answer: Orpheus

Gaiman retells the famous myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in Sandman Special #1: "The Song of Orpheus". He places the myth within the Sandman universe by making Orpheus the son of Dream. In the process, he humanizes the mythic characters, adding even greater pathos when the inevitable occurs.

In this scene, after Orpheus makes his defiant statement, Dream counsels him:

"You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live."
7. What word completes the following observation by Death? "You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a _____. No more. No less."

Answer: lifetime

Death says this to Bernie, a man who has managed to live for 15,000 years before finally dying. Although he is pleased to have evaded her for so long, Death reminds him (and the readers) that it is the quality of the life, not the quantity, that matters.
8. Which President and famed big-game hunter is described in the following quote by Prez Rickard? "In the White House is a tiger skin rug shot and killed many years ago by ____ _______."

Answer: Teddy Roosevelt

President Teddy Roosevelt, despite being a great conservationist, also greatly enjoyed hunting animals. He participated in a great safari soon after he finished his presidency, and ended up killing over 10,000 animals to be shipped back to America for mounting and stuffing.

In the graphic novel, Prez Rickard continues:

"The feet of the great walk over that tiger skin each day. It listens to policy being formed, and secrets being spoken. Now do you think that tiger would rather be dead and in the seat of power, or alive, and walking the jungle of India, sniffing the wind for the scent of game?"

Food for thought about the importance of ambition versus freedom.
9. Complete the following quote: Rose Walker: "Have you ever been in love? _____, isn't it?"

Answer: Horrible

A surprising conclusion! Rose proceeds to explain:

"It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. ... They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love."

One may or may not agree with her, but it's a passage that definitely sticks in the mind!
10. In the final issue, Dream says to Shakespeare: "I wanted a tale of graceful ends...I wanted a play about a king who ... leaves his kingdom ... about a man who turns his back on magic. I am Prince of Stories, Will, but I have no story of my own." What was the second Shakespeare play that Dream ended up commissioning?

Answer: The Tempest

The themes of sacrifice and retirement are very prominent in Shakespeare's "The Tempest". Often seen as the very last play Shakespeare wrote, this enigmatic romance is commissioned by Dream to tell his story using the character of Prospero, the magician who lays down his staff at the end of the play. And of course, Gaiman ends the series with the famous speech of Prospero:

"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."

A most appropriate way to end a series about the Master of Dreams, the Sandman!
Source: Author eyhung

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