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

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

3. Where did Veronica depart to when she left after visiting the narrator and his friends in London in Chapter 1?
(a) North London.
(b) Chislehurst.
(c) Kent.
(d) Oxford.

4. What word from Chapter 1 refers to failing to act as a result of moral weakness?
(a) Supine.
(b) Petulant.
(c) Gregarious.
(d) Pessimistic.

5. How many siblings does the narrator describe Adrian as having in Chapter 1?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator go to meet his friend to discuss Adrian's suicide after he arrived home?

2. Where does the narrator describe walking along and looking at shops with Veronica and his friends in London in Chapter 1?

3. Who does the narrator describe as the one who mocked the political system in Chapter 1?

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)?

5. The narrator points out in Chapter 1 that "what you end up remembering isn't always" what (10)?

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