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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. 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."

2. Who did the narrator's father blame when he found the narrator reading The Communist Manifesto?
(a) Jack.
(b) Colin.
(c) Adrian.
(d) Alex.

3. When the narrator meets Margaret for lunch to discuss the letter, he says of her, "Margaret doesn't do" what (192)?
(a) "Egotism."
(b) "Triumphalism."
(c) "Submission."
(d) "Conflict."

4. What was Mrs. Ford's first name?
(a) Opal.
(b) Anne.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Marie.

5. How old was Susan when she married?
(a) 30.
(b) 24.
(c) 29.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Veronica's last name?

2. What does the narrator describe sending a photocopy of to Mrs. Coyle, Innes and Black in Chapter 2?

3. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that "the brain does not like being" what (210)?

4. What does the narrator say he does not like in Chapter 2?

5. The narrator points out in Chapter 1 that "what you end up remembering isn't always" what (10)?

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