Atonement Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Atonement? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. The novel says that "I love you" are the three words


that you should always say with a smile on your face.
that neither bad art nor bad faith can ever ruin.
that make Briony reach for her fountain pen.
that Paul Marshall writes personally on every Amo bar.
Q. Cecilia believes it would be "deliciously self-destructive" to


jump in the fountain in her underwear.
throw Nurse Drummond in the fountain in her underwear.
marry Paul Marshall.
fight at Dunkirk.
Q. The person who runs off with an extrinsic fellow is


Emily Tallis.
Corporal Nettle.
Lola.
Arabella.
Q. Briony is "one of those children possessed by the desire


"to have the world just so."
"to eat chocolate by the bucketful."
"to be the center of every melodrama."
"to live in absolute filth."
Q. For Robbie and Cecilia, "Mention of 'a quiet corner in the library' is a code for


attack Dunkirk at dawn.
sexual ecstasy.
jump naked in the fountain right now.
Briony has changed her mind.