View a FREE sample

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. What is the name of the two-disc boxed set by Donovan that the narrator describes having owned in college in Chapter 1?
(a) Cosmic Wheels.
(b) A Gift from a Flower to a Garden.
(c) Barbabajagal.
(d) What's Bin Di and What's Bin Hid.

2. Phil Dixon related to his class that T. S. Eliot claimed it is all about what, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) What one leaves as a legacy.
(b) The decision to commit suicide or not.
(c) Birth, copulation, and death.
(d) Life and death.

3. The narrator told Alex that he wondered if who felt any responsibility for Adrian's suicide in Chapter 1?
(a) His philosophy tutors.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

4. Of his personal solicitor, the narrator says in Chapter 2, "He told me that going to the police and trying to persuade them to lay a charge of theft against a woman of mature years who had recently lost her mother would, in his view, be" what (132-133)?
(a) "A terrible idea."
(b) "Permissable."
(c) "Damning."
(d) "Foolish."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who among his group of friends does the narrator say everyone wrote the most to during college and wanted his approval?

2. With whom was Adrian presumably in love when he committed suicide?

3. What is put under the chicken skin in France to make the dish Chicken in Half-Mourning?

4. What poet does the narrator describe in Chapter 2 as having not ever run out of animals?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 272 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample