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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 says in Chapter 1 that he and his friends assured one another that the imagination's first duty was to be what?
(a) Implosive.
(b) Explorative.
(c) Transgressive.
(d) Restrained.

2. The narrator questions in Chapter 1 whether there is "anything more plausible than" what (11)?
(a) "A philosophical query."
(b) "A memory."
(c) "A raised voice."
(d) "A second hand."

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

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) Adrian's.
(b) Colin's.
(c) Alex's.
(d) James's.

5. What composers did Veronica hate?
(a) Bach and Beethoven.
(b) Tchaikovsky and Dvorak.
(c) Chopin and Pachelbel.
(d) Bach and Chopin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Adrian commit suicide?

2. What word in Chapter 1 means behaving in an obsequious way to gain advantage?

3. How long after the narrator's marriage to Margaret did they have their first child?

4. When did Alex say he had seen Adrian when meeting with the narrator to discuss his suicide in Chapter 1?

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

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