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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) 10 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 12 years.

2. 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) "Corrupt."
(c) "Discouraging."
(d) "Enterprising."

3. What does QED stand for?
(a) Quod erat demonstrandum.
(b) Quarter educational denouement.
(c) Query expecting delivery.
(d) Quit educating delinquents.

4. What monarch's reign did Old Joe Hunt ask his students about on the third day of class, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Margaret I.
(b) Charles II.
(c) Henry VIII.
(d) Elizabeth I.

5. Of Adrian, the narrator states in Chapter 1, "We would remember him all our lives, of course. But his death was exemplary rather than" what (105)?
(a) "An act of desperation."
(b) "Tragic."
(c) "Deplorable."
(d) "Despicable."

Short Answer Questions

1. By what means has the narrator opted for his remains to be disposed after his death?

2. What is the name of the narrator's firstborn child?

3. The narrator asserts in Chapter 2, "Someone once said that his favorite times in history were when things were collapsing, because that meant" what (198)?

4. Where did Veronica depart to when she left after visiting the narrator and his friends in London in Chapter 1?

5. What does the narrator switch to drinking while reading the first letter from the envelope from Veronica in Chapter 2?

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