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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. What set Adrian Finn apart from the other boys, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) He was mentally disabled.
(b) He was new to the school.
(c) He came from a two-parent home.
(d) He was physically disabled.

2. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he and his friends assured one another that the imagination's first duty was to be what?
(a) Implosive.
(b) Restrained.
(c) Explorative.
(d) Transgressive.

3. How does the narrator say he and his friends wore their watches in Chapter 1?
(a) With the face on the inside of the wrist.
(b) On their left wrists.
(c) With the clock facing upside down.
(d) On their right wrists.

4. What does the narrator describe Old Joe Hunt always wearing in Chapter 1?
(a) A coat jacket and jeans.
(b) A striped sweater and slacks.
(c) A three-piece suit.
(d) A baseball cap.

5. How does the narrator describe Old Joe Hunt in Chapter 1?
(a) Sardonic.
(b) Wryly affable.
(c) Gregarious.
(d) Hateful and mean.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 1 as "a cautious know-nothing who lacked the inventiveness of true ignorance" (13)?

2. The narrator questions in Chapter 1 whether there is "anything more plausible than" what (11)?

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

5. The narrator suggests in Chapter 1 that "it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us" what (11)?

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