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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: the Third Meeting, Adrian Ford, and the Truth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the notice say that Adrian pinned to the bathroom door before committing suicide (96-97)?
(a) "Goodbye."
(b) "Do not enter - Call police - Adrian."
(c) "Call for help."
(d) "Call my parents and tell them I am sorry."

2. Who did the narrator's father blame when he found the narrator reading The Communist Manifesto?
(a) Colin.
(b) Adrian.
(c) Alex.
(d) Jack.

3. Which of the "two sorts of women" does the narrator assert Margaret to be in Chapter 2 (124)?
(a) Submissive.
(b) Mysterious.
(c) Manipulative.
(d) Clear-edged.

4. What poet is the author alluding to in Chapter 2 when he refers to "the road less travelled" (246)?
(a) William Winston.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Robert Frost.

5. Of Adrian, the narrator states in Chapter 1, "We would remember him all our lives, of course. But his death was exemplary rather than" what (105)?
(a) "Deplorable."
(b) "Despicable."
(c) "An act of desperation."
(d) "Tragic."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator describe being tossed into a wet sink, causing it to steam in the opening of Chapter 1?

4. What word from Chapter 2 refers to an inscription on a tomb in memory of the one buried there?

5. What word from Chapter 1 means unsophisticated and socially awkward?

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