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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. Of what poet did Phil Dixon say "Of course, we're all wondering what will happen when he runs out of animals" (16)?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Ted Hughes.

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

3. How does the narrator say he and his friends wore their watches in Chapter 1?
(a) On their right wrists.
(b) With the clock facing upside down.
(c) On their left wrists.
(d) With the face on the inside of the wrist.

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

5. Who did the narrator's father blame when he found the narrator reading The Communist Manifesto?
(a) Colin.
(b) Adrian.
(c) Jack.
(d) Alex.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Robson kill himself?

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

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

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

5. What musical instrument did Adrian play, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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