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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: the Will, the Diary, and the Formula.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say he does now at the local hospital in the conclusion of Chapter 1?
(a) He runs a library.
(b) He helps with the elderly.
(c) He teaches piano.
(d) He runs the cafeteria.

2. How long after the narrator's marriage to Margaret did they have their first child?
(a) One year later.
(b) Four years later.
(c) Two years later.
(d) Three years later.

3. About how many years has it been since the narrator visited the Ford family when the narrator receives the notice of Mrs. Ford's will in Chapter 2?
(a) 45 years.
(b) 40 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 30 years.

4. Of his personal solicitor, the narrator says in Chapter 2, "He told me that going to the police and trying to persuade them to lay a charge of theft against a woman of mature years who had recently lost her mother would, in his view, be" what (132-133)?
(a) "Permissable."
(b) "Foolish."
(c) "Damning."
(d) "A terrible idea."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Margaret refer to Veronica as when she meets the narrator for lunch to discuss the matter in Chapter 2?

2. What is the name of the narrator's personal solicitor?

3. At whose jokes does the narrator say Veronica laughed at more easily than his own when she met his friends in Chapter 1?

4. By what means has the narrator opted for his remains to be disposed after his death?

5. What composers did Veronica hate?

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