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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 did Veronica's mother take up after the death of her husband?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Protesting.

2. Who among his group of friends does the narrator say everyone wrote the most to during college and wanted his approval?
(a) Adrian.
(b) Himself.
(c) Colin.
(d) Alex.

3. Who wrote to the narrator to inform him of Adrian's suicide?
(a) Alex.
(b) Mrs. Ford.
(c) Colin.
(d) Mr. Ford.

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)?
(a) "An outlaw."
(b) "A lawbreaker."
(c) "Depressed."
(d) "Mad."

5. When the narrator meets Margaret for lunch to discuss the letter, he says of her, "Margaret doesn't do" what (192)?
(a) "Conflict."
(b) "Submission."
(c) "Egotism."
(d) "Triumphalism."

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall does the narrator describe Veronica as in Chapter 1?

2. What does the narrator describe having for Sunday lunch at Veronica's parents' home in Chapter 1?

3. What word from Chapter 1 refers to failing to act as a result of moral weakness?

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

5. What did Veronica's father die from?

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