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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: the Will, the Diary, and the Formula.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was Susan when she married?
(a) 19.
(b) 29.
(c) 30.
(d) 24.

3. What word from Chapter 2 means having a tendency to become liquid?
(a) Effervescent.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Luminous.
(d) Deliquescent.

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

5. How long after the narrator's marriage to Margaret did she take up with a fellow who ran a restaurant?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 12 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When going to visit Veronica's parents, the narrator worried that his suitcase was so big it make him look like what?

3. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "Adrian might attract people, but he never behaved as if he wanted" what?

4. Of England, the narrator says in Chapter 2, "...in this country shadings of class resist time longer than" what (138)?

5. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he and his friends assured one another that the imagination's first duty was to be what?

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