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

2. Where did the narrator attend college?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Sussex.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Cambridge.

3. By what means has the narrator opted for his remains to be disposed after his death?
(a) By bonfire.
(b) By burial.
(c) By cremation.
(d) By shipping him to sea.

4. In what field did Alex tell Veronica his father was in business in Chapter 1?
(a) Ship-building.
(b) Gold trading.
(c) Marine insurance.
(d) Accounting.

5. For how long does Veronica say her father has been dead when she responds to the narrator's query about him in Chapter 2?
(a) About 10 years.
(b) Over 35 years.
(c) Over 40 years.
(d) About 20 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of England, the narrator says in Chapter 2, "...in this country shadings of class resist time longer than" what (138)?

2. What did the narrator's mother attribute as the reason that Adrian killed himself?

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

4. Why did Adrian write to the narrator during his senior year of college?

5. In the postscript of Mrs. Ford's letter to the narrator, she says, "It may sound odd, but I think the last months of [Adrian's] life were" what (124)?

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