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

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?
(a) Restrained.
(b) Explorative.
(c) Implosive.
(d) Transgressive.

3. Phil Dixon once compared a Shakespearean to what actor?
(a) James Stewart.
(b) Jack Nicholson.
(c) John Wayne.
(d) Kirk Douglas.

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

5. Who does the narrator describe as the one who mocked the political system in Chapter 1?
(a) Alex.
(b) Himself.
(c) Adrian.
(d) Colin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator suggests in Chapter 1 that "it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us" what (11)?

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

4. What is the river that runs upstream lit by, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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

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