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

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

3. How did Robson kill himself?
(a) By slitting his wrists.
(b) By hanging.
(c) By overdose.
(d) By shooting himself.

4. What is the river that runs upstream lit by, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Moonlight.
(b) Candlelight.
(c) Torchbeams.
(d) Headlights.

5. The narrator notes in Chapter 1 that when teasing or calling his friends to seriousness, Adrian would address the narrator by what name?
(a) Ant.
(b) Ton.
(c) Tony.
(d) Anthony.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of what poet did Phil Dixon say "Of course, we're all wondering what will happen when he runs out of animals" (16)?

3. Where does the narrator say that Phil Dixon came down from in order to teach his English class in Chapter 1?

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

5. What does the narrator say he and his friends regarded as "a crypto-fascist plan for repressing our sex drive" (18)?

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