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

2. From what material does the narrator describe Veronica's parents home constructed?
(a) White wood.
(b) Red brick.
(c) Yellow brick.
(d) Log.

3. What does the narrator say he and his friends regarded as "a crypto-fascist plan for repressing our sex drive" (18)?
(a) School sports.
(b) English class.
(c) Physics class.
(d) History class.

4. 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.

5. To what university did Adrian win a scholarship?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Sussex.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Oxford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Veronica's famliy live when she was in college?

2. 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?

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

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

5. What is Veronica's last name?

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