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

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

3. By whom was Adrian raised?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

4. Phil Dixon once compared a Shakespearean to what actor?
(a) John Wayne.
(b) James Stewart.
(c) Jack Nicholson.
(d) Kirk Douglas.

5. What does the narrator describe being tossed into a wet sink, causing it to steam in the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) A hot knife.
(b) A hot
(c) A hot iron.
(d) A hot frying pan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator describe Old Joe Hunt always wearing in Chapter 1?

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

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

4. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he and his friends assured one another that the imagination's first duty was to be what?

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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