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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. What set Adrian Finn apart from the other boys, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) He was mentally disabled.
(b) He was physically disabled.
(c) He came from a two-parent home.
(d) He was new to the school.

2. What did Veronica tell the narrator that the only purpose of a woman's period was?
(a) To cause pain and agony.
(b) To tell you when to have a baby.
(c) To tell you you are not pregnant.
(d) To punish womankind.

3. The narrator says of he and his friends in Chapter 1, "All political systems and social systems appeared to us" to be what (22)?
(a) "Violent."
(b) "Discouraging."
(c) "Corrupt."
(d) "Enterprising."

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

5. Where does the narrator say that Phil Dixon came down from in order to teach his English class in Chapter 1?
(a) Bristol.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Barbury.

Short Answer Questions

1. When going to visit Veronica's parents, the narrator worried that his suitcase was so big it make him look like what?

2. What is Veronica's last name?

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

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

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

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