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

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

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

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

5. Where did the narrator attend college?
(a) Sussex.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Bristol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Veronica's last name?

2. What is the name of Veronica's brother?

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

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

5. In describing his first visit to Veronica's parents' home in Chapter 1, the narrator says, "I was so ill at ease that I spent the entire weekend" what (56)?

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