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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: High School and Robson's Suicide.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of his friends does the narrator describe as denouncing his family in Chapter 1?
(a) Alex.
(b) Adrian.
(c) Colin.
(d) Paul.

2. Who is described in Chapter 1 as "a cautious know-nothing who lacked the inventiveness of true ignorance" (13)?
(a) Augustus.
(b) James.
(c) Marley.
(d) Marshall.

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

4. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read" whom (23)?
(a) "Frost and Poe."
(b) "Joyce and Beckett."
(c) "Camus and Nietzsche."
(d) "Einstein and Heidegger."

5. How many siblings does the narrator describe Adrian as having in Chapter 1?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator describe as the one who mocked the political system in Chapter 1?

2. What word in Chapter 1 means behaving in an obsequious way to gain advantage?

3. The narrator notes in Chapter 1 that when teasing or calling his friends to seriousness, Adrian would address the narrator by what name?

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

5. Phil Dixon related to his class that T. S. Eliot claimed it is all about what, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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