Nine Days | Chapter 2: Stanzi

What is Stanzi's job?

• Counsellor

• Psychiatrist

• Counsellor

• Psychologist

What key symbol is used/seen in this chapter?

• The pendant

• The shilling

• The Photograph of Connie

• The tree

What global event has recently occured?

• WW2

• Nelson Mandela released from prison

• The fall of the Berlin Wall

• 9/11

The middle class women Stanzi cares for she describes as....

• Boring

• Lonely

• Filled with rage

• Annoying

Answer explanation

Stanzi’s bitter observations about her clients and their undirected, inexplicable rage makes a dire statement about modern life, suggesting that the middle class is narcissistic at its core. Now that people in Stanzi’s demographic are not struggling to survive as Kip’s family did, there appears to a sense of pointlessness to life that makes people mean and self-centered.

Violet asks Stanzi about her own father and she describes her dad as...

• Funny

• Smart

• Handsome

• Loving

 

Stanzi thinks her twin Charlotte is....

• Intelligent

• A hippy

• Thoughtful

• Carefree

What is Stanzi's real name?

• Stanley

• Charlie

• Constance

Answer explanation

Stanzi’s revelation that her full name is Constance implies that she is named after Connie, Kip’s beloved sister, creating yet another connection between them. However, Stanzi’s character has yet to resemble anything close to Connie’s warmth, tenderness, and protective instinct.

How are Jean & Mrs Husting's opinions of Kip proven wrong in this chapter? What do we learn through this flash foward?

• We learn that he is wealthy.

• We learn that he married & had 2 children.

What does Stanzi conclude she must do at the end of this chapter?

• Get married

• Quit her job

• Have children

• Finish her PhD