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

2. When going to visit Veronica's parents, the narrator worried that his suitcase was so big it make him look like what?
(a) A potential burglar.
(b) A hanger-on.
(c) An obsessive compulsive freak.
(d) A hobo.

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

4. Phil Dixon related to his class that T. S. Eliot claimed it is all about what, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) What one leaves as a legacy.
(b) Life and death.
(c) The decision to commit suicide or not.
(d) Birth, copulation, and death.

5. What does the narrator describe having for Sunday lunch at Veronica's parents' home in Chapter 1?
(a) Roast turkey.
(b) Roast chicken.
(c) Roast lamb.
(d) Roast beef.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Veronica's father's profession when the narrator met her?

2. Who does the narrator describe as making "philosophical objections to the perceived nature of reality" in Chapter 1 (18)?

3. Where did the narrator attend college?

4. The narrator suggests in Chapter 1 that "it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us" what (11)?

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

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