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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. In describing his first visit to Veronica's parents' home in Chapter 1, the narrator says, "I was so ill at ease that I spent the entire weekend" what (56)?
(a) "Pacing."
(b) "Thowing up."
(c) "Constipated."
(d) "Chain-smoking."

2. What is Veronica's last name?
(a) Frank.
(b) Ford.
(c) Webster.
(d) Williams.

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

4. How much older is Veronica than the narrator?
(a) 8 months older.
(b) 1 year older.
(c) 5 months older.
(d) 2 years older.

5. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read" whom (23)?
(a) "Joyce and Beckett."
(b) "Frost and Poe."
(c) "Camus and Nietzsche."
(d) "Einstein and Heidegger."

Short Answer Questions

1. What monarch's reign did Old Joe Hunt ask his students about on the third day of class, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

2. What is the name of the narrator's firstborn child?

3. Where does the narrator describe the school he attended in Chapter 1?

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

5. The narrator notes in Chapter 1, "Some Englishman once said that marriage is a long dull meal with" what "served first" (106)?

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