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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 did Adrian tell Alex as they said goodbye the last time that Alex saw him?
(a) That he was getting married.
(b) That he was moving away.
(c) That he was in love.
(d) That he was quitting school.

2. The narrator told Alex that he wondered if who felt any responsibility for Adrian's suicide in Chapter 1?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His philosophy tutors.

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

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

5. What composer does the narrator say "has gone the way of those geniuses who fascinate in youth, retain a residual power in middle age, but later seem, if not embarrassing, somehow less relevant" in Chapter 2 (115)?
(a) Bach.
(b) Beethhoven.
(c) Tchaikovsky.
(d) Chopin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of his personal solicitor the narrator says that he "is a calm, gaunt man who doesn't mind" what (132)?

2. How did Robson kill himself?

3. What did Adrian request in his suicide letter that the coroner do with his remains?

4. How does the narrator say he and his friends wore their watches in Chapter 1?

5. How long after the narrator writes to him does John Ford respond in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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