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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. How many siblings does the narrator describe Adrian as having in Chapter 1?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

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

3. 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) Transgressive.
(b) Implosive.
(c) Explorative.
(d) Restrained.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By whom was Adrian raised?

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

4. Phil Dixon once compared a Shakespearean to what actor?

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

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