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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. 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 tell you when to have a baby.
(d) To cause pain and agony.

2. How long after the narrator's marriage to Margaret did they have their first child?
(a) One year later.
(b) Four years later.
(c) Two years later.
(d) Three years later.

3. The narrator asserts in Chapter 2, "Someone once said that his favorite times in history were when things were collapsing, because that meant" what (198)?
(a) "An act of desperation."
(b) "Political upheaval."
(c) "Something new was being born."
(d) "Things were going to finally change."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During what decade did the narrator attend college?

2. Where did Colin, Alex, and the narrator meet for drinks a year after Adrian's death?

3. What monarch's reign did Old Joe Hunt ask his students about on the third day of class, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

4. How much money did Mrs. Ford leave to the narrator in her will?

5. Who wrote to the narrator to inform him of Adrian's suicide?

(see the answer key)

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