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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. From what material does the narrator describe Veronica's parents home constructed?
(a) Yellow brick.
(b) Log.
(c) White wood.
(d) Red brick.

2. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that "the brain does not like being" what (210)?
(a) "Controlled."
(b) "Questioned."
(c) "Repressed."
(d) "Typecast."

3. How long after the narrator's marriage to Margaret did she take up with a fellow who ran a restaurant?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 10 years.

4. The narrator asserts in Chapter 2, "Someone once said that his favorite times in history were when things were collapsing, because that meant" what (198)?
(a) "Things were going to finally change."
(b) "Something new was being born."
(c) "An act of desperation."
(d) "Political upheaval."

5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the action of clearing blame of someone?
(a) Retribution.
(b) Vindication.
(c) Anticipation.
(d) Articulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator wish Veronica had done with the letter he reads from the envelope she has given him in Chapter 2?

2. With whom was Adrian presumably in love when he committed suicide?

3. What did Veronica's father die from?

4. Of Adrian, the narrator states in Chapter 1, "We would remember him all our lives, of course. But his death was exemplary rather than" what (105)?

5. What does QED stand for?

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