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

2. Where did the narrator go to meet his friend to discuss Adrian's suicide after he arrived home?
(a) The Four Seasons Hotel.
(b) The Marriott Hotel.
(c) The Charing X Hotel.
(d) The Windsor Hotel.

3. Where does the narrator say that Phil Dixon came down from in order to teach his English class in Chapter 1?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Barbury.

4. 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 hobo.
(c) An obsessive compulsive freak.
(d) A hanger-on.

5. Who among his group of friends does the narrator say everyone wrote the most to during college and wanted his approval?
(a) Adrian.
(b) Himself.
(c) Alex.
(d) Colin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of his personal solicitor, the narrator says in Chapter 2, "He told me that going to the police and trying to persuade them to lay a charge of theft against a woman of mature years who had recently lost her mother would, in his view, be" what (132-133)?

2. What is the name of Susan's husband?

3. The narrator asserts in Chapter 2 that "it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a" what (119)?

4. The narrator notes in Chapter 1 that when teasing or calling his friends to seriousness, Adrian would address the narrator by what name?

5. The narrator states in Chapter 2, "I viewed my time with Veronica as" what (131)?

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