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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. Which of the "two sorts of women" does the narrator assert Margaret to be in Chapter 2 (124)?
(a) Submissive.
(b) Clear-edged.
(c) Mysterious.
(d) Manipulative.

2. Why did Adrian write to the narrator during his senior year of college?
(a) To tell him he was quitting school.
(b) To tell him he was committing suicide.
(c) To ask for permission to date Veronica.
(d) To ask him to come on vacation wih him.

3. What is the name of the narrator's personal solicitor?
(a) William O'Macy.
(b) T. J. Gunnell.
(c) Mr. Sallinger.
(d) James Marcantel.

4. 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) "Corrupt."
(b) "Enterprising."
(c) "Discouraging."
(d) "Violent."

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) "Deplorable."
(b) "Tragic."
(c) "Despicable."
(d) "An act of desperation."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator describe as making "philosophical objections to the perceived nature of reality" in Chapter 1 (18)?

2. How tall does the narrator describe Veronica as in Chapter 1?

3. Where did the narrator go to meet his friend to discuss Adrian's suicide after he arrived home?

4. Of his personal solicitor the narrator says that he "is a calm, gaunt man who doesn't mind" what (132)?

5. When going to visit Veronica's parents, the narrator worried that his suitcase was so big it make him look like what?

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