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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Adrian's Suicide and the Current State of Things.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator suggests in Chapter 1 that "it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us" what (11)?
(a) "What life is about."
(b) "Regret."
(c) "Time's maleability."
(d) "How to love."

2. How long after the narrator's marriage to Margaret did she take up with a fellow who ran a restaurant?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 15 years.

3. What are Veronica's two middle names?
(a) Anne Elizabeth.
(b) Mary Elizabeth.
(c) Sarah Michelle.
(d) Mary Anderson.

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

5. During what decade did the narrator attend college?
(a) The 1970s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1980s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Adrian commit suicide?

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

3. Who among his group of friends does the narrator say everyone wrote the most to during college and wanted his approval?

4. By whom was Adrian raised?

5. At whose jokes does the narrator say Veronica laughed at more easily than his own when she met his friends in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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