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

2. How long after the narrator's marriage to Margaret did they have their first child?
(a) Three years later.
(b) Four years later.
(c) Two years later.
(d) One year later.

3. Where did Colin, Alex, and the narrator meet for drinks a year after Adrian's death?
(a) The Charing X Hotel.
(b) The Marriott Hotel.
(c) The Metro Hotel.
(d) The Four Seasons Hotel.

4. What is the name of Veronica's brother?
(a) Jack.
(b) James.
(c) William.
(d) Joseph.

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) Ton.
(b) Anthony.
(c) Tony.
(d) Ant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Phil Dixon related to his class that T. S. Eliot claimed it is all about what, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

2. How much older is Veronica than the narrator?

3. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read" whom (23)?

4. How old was Adrian when he committed suicide?

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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