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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. Who attended Adrian's funeral?
(a) Tony, Veronica, and Colin.
(b) Only his family.
(c) Alex, Colin, and Tony.
(d) Alex, Colin, and Jack.

2. What does the narrator describe Old Joe Hunt always wearing in Chapter 1?
(a) A coat jacket and jeans.
(b) A three-piece suit.
(c) A striped sweater and slacks.
(d) A baseball cap.

3. What word in Chapter 1 means behaving in an obsequious way to gain advantage?
(a) Petulant.
(b) Sycophantic.
(c) Sarcastic.
(d) Gregarious.

4. At whose jokes does the narrator say Veronica laughed at more easily than his own when she met his friends in Chapter 1?
(a) Colin's.
(b) Adrian's.
(c) Alex's.
(d) James's.

5. The narrator notes in Chapter 1 that when teasing or calling his friends to seriousness, Adrian would address the narrator by what name?
(a) Ant.
(b) Tony.
(c) Ton.
(d) Anthony.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Adrian tell Alex as they said goodbye the last time that Alex saw him?

3. Where did Colin attend college?

4. Who did the narrator's father blame when he found the narrator reading The Communist Manifesto?

5. Who is described in Chapter 1 as "a cautious know-nothing who lacked the inventiveness of true ignorance" (13)?

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