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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Veronica and After.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what poet did Phil Dixon say "Of course, we're all wondering what will happen when he runs out of animals" (16)?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Robert Frost.

2. The narrator suggests in Chapter 1 that "it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us" what (11)?
(a) "What life is about."
(b) "How to love."
(c) "Time's maleability."
(d) "Regret."

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

4. How does the narrator say he and his friends wore their watches in Chapter 1?
(a) On their right wrists.
(b) On their left wrists.
(c) With the face on the inside of the wrist.
(d) With the clock facing upside down.

5. How did Robson kill himself?
(a) By hanging.
(b) By shooting himself.
(c) By overdose.
(d) By slitting his wrists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who among his group of friends does the narrator say everyone wrote the most to during college and wanted his approval?

2. What does the narrator describe Old Joe Hunt always wearing in Chapter 1?

3. From what material does the narrator describe Veronica's parents home constructed?

4. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read" whom (23)?

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

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