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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: the Meeting, the Letter, the Second Meeting.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What composers did Veronica hate?
(a) Bach and Chopin.
(b) Bach and Beethoven.
(c) Chopin and Pachelbel.
(d) Tchaikovsky and Dvorak.

2. Where did Colin attend college?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Sussex.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Cambridge.

3. During what decade did the narrator attend college?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1980s.

4. How does the narrator describe Old Joe Hunt in Chapter 1?
(a) Wryly affable.
(b) Gregarious.
(c) Sardonic.
(d) Hateful and mean.

5. Why does Veronica tell the narrator she cannot give him Adrian's diary when they meet at the Wobbly Bridge in Chapter 2?
(a) Because she burned it.
(b) Because she threw it in the river.
(c) Because she can't bear to part with it.
(d) Because she gave it away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he does not like in Chapter 2?

2. Of England, the narrator says in Chapter 2, "...in this country shadings of class resist time longer than" what (138)?

3. What did Adrian request in his suicide letter that the coroner do with his remains?

4. What did the notice say that Adrian pinned to the bathroom door before committing suicide (96-97)?

5. For about how long does the narrator say he dated Veronica in Chapter 2?

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