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

2. Where does the narrator describe the school he attended in Chapter 1?
(a) Chislebury.
(b) Central London.
(c) East London.
(d) North London.

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

4. Which of his friends does the narrator describe as denouncing his family in Chapter 1?
(a) Alex.
(b) Colin.
(c) Adrian.
(d) Paul.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator notes in Chapter 1 that when teasing or calling his friends to seriousness, Adrian would address the narrator by what name?

2. What does the narrator describe being tossed into a wet sink, causing it to steam in the opening of Chapter 1?

3. Phil Dixon related to his class that T. S. Eliot claimed it is all about what, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

4. How did Robson kill himself?

5. The narrator says of he and his friends in Chapter 1, "All political systems and social systems appeared to us" to be what (22)?

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