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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In discussing modern dating, the narrator says in Chapter 1, "This made me feel like a survivor from some antique, bypassed culture whose members were still using" what "as a form of monetary exchange" (45)?
(a) "Salt."
(b) "Turnips."
(c) "Dirt."
(d) "Potatoes."

2. How did Robson kill himself?
(a) By slitting his wrists.
(b) By shooting himself.
(c) By hanging.
(d) By overdose.

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) 15 years.
(d) 10 years.

4. The narrator points out in Chapter 1 that "what you end up remembering isn't always" what (10)?
(a) "What others end up remembering."
(b) "The truth."
(c) "The same as what you have witnessed."
(d) "What happened."

5. How much older is Veronica than the narrator?
(a) 8 months older.
(b) 2 years older.
(c) 5 months older.
(d) 1 year older.

6. Where did the narrator attend college?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Bristol.
(c) Sussex.
(d) Oxford.

7. What does the narrator say he and his friends regarded as "a crypto-fascist plan for repressing our sex drive" (18)?
(a) Physics class.
(b) School sports.
(c) History class.
(d) English class.

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

9. What word in Chapter 1 means behaving in an obsequious way to gain advantage?
(a) Sycophantic.
(b) Sarcastic.
(c) Gregarious.
(d) Petulant.

10. What does the narrator describe having for Sunday lunch at Veronica's parents' home in Chapter 1?
(a) Roast lamb.
(b) Roast chicken.
(c) Roast turkey.
(d) Roast beef.

11. Where did Colin, Alex, and the narrator meet for drinks a year after Adrian's death?
(a) The Four Seasons Hotel.
(b) The Charing X Hotel.
(c) The Metro Hotel.
(d) The Marriott Hotel.

12. Where did Veronica depart to when she left after visiting the narrator and his friends in London in Chapter 1?
(a) Oxford.
(b) North London.
(c) Kent.
(d) Chislehurst.

13. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read" whom (23)?
(a) "Joyce and Beckett."
(b) "Einstein and Heidegger."
(c) "Frost and Poe."
(d) "Camus and Nietzsche."

14. What are Veronica's two middle names?
(a) Mary Anderson.
(b) Anne Elizabeth.
(c) Mary Elizabeth.
(d) Sarah Michelle.

15. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the action of clearing blame of someone?
(a) Retribution.
(b) Anticipation.
(c) Vindication.
(d) Articulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator notes in Chapter 1, "Some Englishman once said that marriage is a long dull meal with" what "served first" (106)?

2. What did the notice say that Adrian pinned to the bathroom door before committing suicide (96-97)?

3. With whom was Adrian presumably in love when he committed suicide?

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

5. What periodical ran the headline after Adrian's death that was titled "Tragic Death of 'Promising' Young Man" (97)?

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