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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 is the river that runs upstream lit by, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Moonlight.
(b) Headlights.
(c) Candlelight.
(d) Torchbeams.

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

3. What does the narrator describe being tossed into a wet sink, causing it to steam in the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) A hot knife.
(b) A hot iron.
(c) A hot
(d) A hot frying pan.

4. What is the name of Veronica's brother?
(a) William.
(b) Jack.
(c) James.
(d) Joseph.

5. What does the narrator describe as Veronica's "comfort book" in Chapter 1 (49)?
(a) Tomorrow Never Comes.
(b) I Capture the Castle.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) To Have and Have Not.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say that Phil Dixon came down from in order to teach his English class in Chapter 1?

2. For how long did Veronica's mother say they had lived in their current home when the narrator asked during his visit in Chapter 1?

3. Who is described in Chapter 1 as "a cautious know-nothing who lacked the inventiveness of true ignorance" (13)?

4. Who did the narrator's father blame when he found the narrator reading The Communist Manifesto?

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

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