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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. Why did Adrian write to the narrator during his senior year of college?
(a) To ask him to come on vacation wih him.
(b) To tell him he was committing suicide.
(c) To ask for permission to date Veronica.
(d) To tell him he was quitting school.

2. What does the narrator describe as Veronica's "comfort book" in Chapter 1 (49)?
(a) I Capture the Castle.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) Tomorrow Never Comes.
(d) To Have and Have Not.

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

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)?
(a) "Discouraging."
(b) "Corrupt."
(c) "Enterprising."
(d) "Violent."

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

Short Answer 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)?

2. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he and his friends assured one another that the imagination's first duty was to be what?

3. What set Adrian Finn apart from the other boys, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

4. In discussing modern dating, the narrator says in Chapter 1, "This made me feel like a survivor from some antique, bypassed culture whose members were still using" what "as a form of monetary exchange" (45)?

5. What is Veronica's last name?

(see the answer key)

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