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

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

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

4. The narrator questions in Chapter 1 whether there is "anything more plausible than" what (11)?
(a) "A raised voice."
(b) "A philosophical query."
(c) "A memory."
(d) "A second hand."

5. What does the narrator say he and his friends regarded as "a crypto-fascist plan for repressing our sex drive" (18)?
(a) History class.
(b) School sports.
(c) English class.
(d) Physics class.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where does the narrator describe the school he attended in Chapter 1?

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