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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 Veronica's last name?
(a) Ford.
(b) Webster.
(c) Williams.
(d) Frank.

2. Phil Dixon once compared a Shakespearean to what actor?
(a) John Wayne.
(b) James Stewart.
(c) Kirk Douglas.
(d) Jack Nicholson.

3. What did the narrator's mother attribute as the reason that Adrian killed himself?
(a) He was too clever.
(b) He was depressive.
(c) He impregnated his girlfriend.
(d) He was struggling in school.

4. How long ago does the solicitor say Mrs. Ford's will was drawn up in Chapter 2?
(a) Two years ago.
(b) Twenty years ago.
(c) Five years ago.
(d) Six years ago.

5. How does the narrator describe Old Joe Hunt in Chapter 1?
(a) Wryly affable.
(b) Hateful and mean.
(c) Gregarious.
(d) Sardonic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

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

4. The narrator notes in Chapter 1, "I'd read somewhere that if you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you" do what (64)?

5. What word in Chapter 1 means behaving in an obsequious way to gain advantage?

(see the answer key)

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