Fing GCSE Quiz (With Answers)

Q1 of 15

What is Walliams's central satirical target in Fing, and how does he use comedy to make his point?

• He targets magic creatures
• Fing is a satire of extreme parental indulgence and the culture of satisfying children's every demand
• Walliams supports indulgent parenting
• The book has no satirical target

Q2 of 15

What does Myrtle represent as a character type in children's literature?

• An original character
• Myrtle fits the tradition of the spoilt, unpleasant child whose unpleasantness is ultimately a product of parental failure rather than innate evil
• Spoilt children are bad
• Myrtle is unique in literature

Q3 of 15

How does the Fing — as an impossible, unnamed thing — function as a metaphor?

• The Fing has no symbolic meaning
• Metaphors are too complex for picture books
• The Fing represents the impossible ideal
• The Fing is a silly creature, and

Q4 of 15

What does the behaviour of Myrtle's parents suggest about the damage caused by refusing to say no to children?

• Parents should always give children what they want
• The parents are weak
• Saying yes always helps children
• Their complete inability to refuse Myrtle

Q5 of 15

How does the escalating structure of the novel — each demand leading to a bigger disaster than the last — function as a moral fable?

• The escalation has no moral purpose
• The escalation is for excitement, and
• Fables and comedy don't mix
• The escalating structure follows fable logic: each demand and its consequences is worse than the last, building to the inevitable catastrophe of the Fing, which is the logical conclusion of a life with no limits

Q6 of 15

What does the journey to 'the end of the world' represent symbolically?

• It is just a funny trip
• The end of the world
• It represents adventure
• The journey is a real place

Q7 of 15

In what ways does Fing function as a book that speaks both to child and adult readers simultaneously?

• It is only for children
• Adult humour doesn't belong in children's books
• The book is for adults, and
• Children enjoy the chaos and the strange creature; adults recognise the parental satire and the familiar nightmare of indulgent parenting taken to its logical extreme

Q8 of 15

What does the Fing's physical indescribability suggest about the nature of impossible desires?

• Walliams couldn't think of a description
• The indescribability is funny, and
• The creature's indescribability mirrors the nature of impossible wants
• Impossible things can always be described

Q9 of 15

How does Fing compare to Roald Dahl's Veruca Salt in its exploration of extreme childish demand?

• Veruca Salt is a better character
• They are completely different characters
• Walliams copies Dahl directly
• Both Myrtle and Veruca Salt are portraits of the spoilt child taken to comic extremes, but Walliams is more interested in parental failure where Dahl focuses on the child's own moral deficiency

Q10 of 15

What does the resolution — Myrtle's lesson — suggest about whether children can change, and what prompts change?

• Myrtle doesn't really change
• Myrtle learns because she is clever
• Consequences don't teach children
• Myrtle changes not through being told to but through experiencing the direct, catastrophic consequences of her own demands

Q11 of 15

How does the absurdist humour of the Fing concept itself — a creature with no defined nature — engage young readers?

• Absurdism is for adult literature
• Children delight in the imaginative freedom of a creature that can be anything
• Young readers need concrete descriptions
• Absurdism confuses young readers

Q12 of 15

What does the book suggest about the relationship between boredom and impossible demands? Is Myrtle's desire for a Fing actually a desire for something else?

• Myrtle's impossible demand may be a symptom of a deeper restlessness that no possession can satisfy
• Myrtle is satisfied by everything she has
• Myrtle wants a Fing
• All children want impossible things

Q13 of 15

How does Walliams use the picture-book format of Fing to make his satirical points accessible to very young readers?

• The picture-book format limits the satire
• Satire works in text, and
• The visual comedy
• Young children cannot access satire

Q14 of 15

What does the ending of Fing — chaos resolved, lesson perhaps learned — suggest about consequences as a pedagogical tool?

• Children should be shielded from consequences
• Consequences are too harsh for children
• The ending gently argues that allowing children to experience the natural consequences of their demands
• Myrtle's lesson is unrealistic

Q15 of 15

In what way is Fing a book about imagination — specifically about what happens when imagination is used purely in service of desire?

• Fing is not about imagination
• Desire and imagination are unrelated
• The Fing is the product of pure imaginative desire
• Imagination is always positive