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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. How old was Susan when she married?
(a) 29.
(b) 24.
(c) 19.
(d) 30.

2. What did Adrian request in his suicide letter that the coroner do with his remains?
(a) Have his body cast into the sea.
(b) Have him cremated and scattered.
(c) Have his remains shot to the moon.
(d) Have him buried in his parents' cemetary plot.

3. In describing his first visit to Veronica's parents' home in Chapter 1, the narrator says, "I was so ill at ease that I spent the entire weekend" what (56)?
(a) "Constipated."
(b) "Pacing."
(c) "Thowing up."
(d) "Chain-smoking."

4. Of the letter, the narrator says in Chapter 2, "And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both" (187). What does the narrator describe feeling?
(a) Retribution.
(b) Remorse.
(c) Insolence.
(d) Regret.

5. With whom was Adrian presumably in love when he committed suicide?
(a) Annie.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Maria.
(d) Veronica.

Short Answer Questions

1. What composers did Veronica hate?

2. What is the name of Susan's husband?

3. Where did Colin, Alex, and the narrator meet for drinks a year after Adrian's death?

4. The narrator says in Chapter 1 after Adrian's death that "in the law's view, if you killed yourself you were by definition" what (97)?

5. What did Adrian tell Alex as they said goodbye the last time that Alex saw him?

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