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

2. What composer does the narrator say he still plays a lot of in Chapter 2?
(a) Dvorak.
(b) Chopin.
(c) Beethhoven.
(d) Bach.

3. How did Adrian commit suicide?
(a) He shot himself.
(b) He overdosed on pills.
(c) He hung himself.
(d) He cut his wrists.

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

5. The narrator notes in Chapter 1, "I'd read somewhere that if you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you" do what (64)?
(a) Remain silent.
(b) Gaze about the room.
(c) Raise your voice.
(d) Lower your voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Veronica's brother?

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

3. At whose jokes does the narrator say Veronica laughed at more easily than his own when she met his friends in Chapter 1?

4. What does the narrator describe sending a photocopy of to Mrs. Coyle, Innes and Black in Chapter 2?

5. By whom was Adrian raised?

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