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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Veronica and After.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the river that runs upstream lit by, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Moonlight.
(b) Headlights.
(c) Candlelight.
(d) Torchbeams.

2. The narrator notes in Chapter 1, "I'd read somewhere that if you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you" do what (64)?
(a) Remain silent.
(b) Lower your voice.
(c) Gaze about the room.
(d) Raise your voice.

3. What composers did Veronica hate?
(a) Bach and Beethoven.
(b) Bach and Chopin.
(c) Chopin and Pachelbel.
(d) Tchaikovsky and Dvorak.

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

5. Phil Dixon related to his class that T. S. Eliot claimed it is all about what, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) The decision to commit suicide or not.
(b) Birth, copulation, and death.
(c) What one leaves as a legacy.
(d) Life and death.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where did Veronica depart to when she left after visiting the narrator and his friends in London in Chapter 1?

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

4. How much older is Veronica than the narrator?

5. What does the narrator describe having for Sunday lunch at Veronica's parents' home in Chapter 1?

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