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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 is the name of the two-disc boxed set by Donovan that the narrator describes having owned in college in Chapter 1?
(a) Barbabajagal.
(b) A Gift from a Flower to a Garden.
(c) Cosmic Wheels.
(d) What's Bin Di and What's Bin Hid.

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

3. 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) "Damning."
(b) "Permissable."
(c) "A terrible idea."
(d) "Foolish."

4. Where did Veronica's famliy live when she was in college?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Sutton.
(c) Kent.
(d) The West End.

5. Who writes to the narrator from Messrs. Coyle, Innes and Black in Chapter 2?
(a) Janet Williams.
(b) Anne Collier.
(c) Rebecca Anderson.
(d) Eleanor Marriott.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he and his friends regarded as "a crypto-fascist plan for repressing our sex drive" (18)?

2. What does the narrator say he does now at the local hospital in the conclusion of Chapter 1?

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

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 is the name of Susan's husband?

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