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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: the Meeting, the Letter, the Second Meeting.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Alex say he had seen Adrian when meeting with the narrator to discuss his suicide in Chapter 1?
(a) One month ago.
(b) Three weeks ago.
(c) Three months ago.
(d) Two months ago.

2. What word from Chapter 1 means unsophisticated and socially awkward?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Petulant.
(c) Gauche.
(d) Elusive.

3. What is the name of the two-disc boxed set by Donovan that the narrator describes having owned in college in Chapter 1?
(a) Barbabajagal.
(b) Cosmic Wheels.
(c) A Gift from a Flower to a Garden.
(d) What's Bin Di and What's Bin Hid.

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

5. What did Veronica tell the narrator that the only purpose of a woman's period was?
(a) To tell you you are not pregnant.
(b) To punish womankind.
(c) To cause pain and agony.
(d) To tell you when to have a baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that "the brain does not like being" what (210)?

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

3. What composer does the narrator say he still plays a lot of in Chapter 2?

4. During what decade did the narrator attend college?

5. In describing his first visit to Veronica's parents' home in Chapter 1, the narrator says, "I was so ill at ease that I spent the entire weekend" what (56)?

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