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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 does the narrator describe as making "philosophical objections to the perceived nature of reality" in Chapter 1 (18)?
(a) Alex.
(b) Himself.
(c) Adrian.
(d) Colin.

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

3. The narrator points out in Chapter 1 that "what you end up remembering isn't always" what (10)?
(a) "What others end up remembering."
(b) "The same as what you have witnessed."
(c) "The truth."
(d) "What happened."

4. The narrator suggests in Chapter 1 that "it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us" what (11)?
(a) "How to love."
(b) "Time's maleability."
(c) "What life is about."
(d) "Regret."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Robson kill himself?

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?

3. How does the narrator describe Old Joe Hunt in Chapter 1?

4. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read" whom (23)?

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

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