In Body and Soul
1. When does Sister Gabriel particularly get those feelings of "emptiness" about not having a child? (Answer)
2. Why was it easy for Sister Gabriel to take a vow not to touch others? (Answer)
3. If a nun knocks on your door at dawn and says "Blessed be His holy name," what should you reply? (Answer)
4. When one of the sisters admonishes Sister Dominic about her affection for Sister Gabriel, the sister says "When you go in twos, __________ makes a third." (Answer)
5. Why does Anna Gibson (Sister Gabriel's birth name) prefer to drive? (Is there a taxi reference there? Does Anna sense that she may have trouble keeping her hands to herself?) (Answer)
6. What does Anna put into the bathwater that she could never have at the convent? (another plumbing/bathtub reference. see cross-references under The English Patient) (Answer)
7. When the sisters are discussing Sister Gabriel's experiences away from the convent, what do they agree is a sign of mental illness on the "outside"? (Answer)
8. How is a nun like a pane of glass? (Answer)
9. Name four places that Sister Gabriel finds her sister-in-law's cigarettes? (Answer)
10. What did the sisters have at the convent for their yarns that the Nightingale Mill does not? (Answer)
11. When Anna falls into a bog on the moors, where does Hal take her and what does he make her do as he makes a fire to warm her? (see fire and rekindling references under The English Patient) (Answer)
12. When the bank threatens to call in the loan and Anna is desperate for money, which part of her body is raw? (Answer)
13. What song does Anna sing with Lynn on the sofa before the baby is born? (Answer)
14. What did Anna's mother keep in her purse, and why was she always going to the bathroom? (also reference Mio caro) (Answer)
15. How many films can you name in which KST has nude scenes? Can you name any actress who appears as confident and comfortable in such scenes? (Answer)
16. When Anna is torn about her role in the world transacting business for the mill versus her cloistered life at the convent, and a bathroom attendant knocks on the door where she is crying and ripping at her new clothes, what does she automatically say to the woman? (Answer)
17. Noticing the wedding ring on Anna's finger at a business meeting, Mr. Stern says "Is your husband in the business?" What is Anna's reply? (Answer)
18. What does a man hand Anna at King's Cross when she is not in her habit? (also reference Four Weddings and a Funeral) (Answer)
19. How did Hal sum up Anna in the car after she didn't meet him at the train station? (Answer)
20. How did Lynn sum up Anna the first time she met her at the convent? (Answer)
21. How does Stan Beattie sum up Anna during a lunch with financier Daniel Stern? (Answer)
22. What does Sister Dominic do better than driving a tractor? (Answer)
23. After leaving the convent, how does Anna characterize her prayers? (Hint: could also be said of a man who has had a vasectomy) (Answer)
24. What does Lynn find in the drawer of her husband's desk, when she becomes all gooey inside, besides drawings by the children and a tape recording with her husband's voice on it? (Answer)
25. How old was Stan Beattie when he started at Nightingale Mill? (requires some mathematical ability late in the evening if you watch all episodes back to back) (Answer)
26. When Anna is discussing her new life with family friend Walter Street, he talks about how even as a young girl she was peddling her bicycle as fast as she could to keep from falling off. What were his other remarks to Anna? (Answer)
27. How soon after their first dance (to the Tennessee Waltz) do Anna and Hal find a bedroom rendezvous inevitable? (see dance cross-references under The English Patient) (Answer)
28. How does Anna sum up Hal after they've had sex? (see scene on the staircase) (Answer)
29. Where was the last pack of cigarettes hidden? (Answer)
