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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: the Meeting, the Letter, the Second Meeting.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long after the narrator's marriage to Margaret did she take up with a fellow who ran a restaurant?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 5 years.

3. What word in Chapter 1 means behaving in an obsequious way to gain advantage?
(a) Sarcastic.
(b) Gregarious.
(c) Petulant.
(d) Sycophantic.

4. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read" whom (23)?
(a) "Joyce and Beckett."
(b) "Camus and Nietzsche."
(c) "Einstein and Heidegger."
(d) "Frost and Poe."

5. How much money did Mrs. Ford leave to the narrator in her will?
(a) 1,000 pounds.
(b) 100 pounds.
(c) 500 pounds.
(d) 200 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what decade did the narrator attend college?

2. What does the narrator describe as Veronica's "comfort book" in Chapter 1 (49)?

3. What word from Chapter 2 means having a tendency to become liquid?

4. How long ago does the solicitor say Mrs. Ford's will was drawn up in Chapter 2?

5. Where does the narrator describe walking along and looking at shops with Veronica and his friends in London in Chapter 1?

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