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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 Old Joe Hunt always wearing in Chapter 1?
(a) A three-piece suit.
(b) A striped sweater and slacks.
(c) A baseball cap.
(d) A coat jacket and jeans.

2. Who is described in Chapter 1 as "a cautious know-nothing who lacked the inventiveness of true ignorance" (13)?
(a) James.
(b) Augustus.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Marley.

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

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

5. What monarch's reign did Old Joe Hunt ask his students about on the third day of class, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Elizabeth I.
(b) Margaret I.
(c) Charles II.
(d) Henry VIII.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read" whom (23)?

5. Which of his friends does the narrator describe as denouncing his family in Chapter 1?

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