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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator suggests in Chapter 1 that "it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us" what (11)?
(a) "How to love."
(b) "Time's maleability."
(c) "What life is about."
(d) "Regret."

2. What set Adrian Finn apart from the other boys, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) He was mentally disabled.
(b) He was physically disabled.
(c) He came from a two-parent home.
(d) He was new to the school.

3. How old was Adrian when he committed suicide?
(a) 25.
(b) 32.
(c) 22.
(d) 19.

4. Who among his group of friends does the narrator say everyone wrote the most to during college and wanted his approval?
(a) Himself.
(b) Alex.
(c) Colin.
(d) Adrian.

5. What did the narrator's mother attribute as the reason that Adrian killed himself?
(a) He was depressive.
(b) He was struggling in school.
(c) He impregnated his girlfriend.
(d) He was too clever.

6. What word from Chapter 1 refers to failing to act as a result of moral weakness?
(a) Pessimistic.
(b) Gregarious.
(c) Supine.
(d) Petulant.

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

8. By whom was Adrian raised?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

9. What composers did Veronica hate?
(a) Tchaikovsky and Dvorak.
(b) Chopin and Pachelbel.
(c) Bach and Beethoven.
(d) Bach and Chopin.

10. For how long did Veronica's mother say they had lived in their current home when the narrator asked during his visit in Chapter 1?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 2 years.

11. When going to visit Veronica's parents, the narrator worried that his suitcase was so big it make him look like what?
(a) A potential burglar.
(b) A hanger-on.
(c) A hobo.
(d) An obsessive compulsive freak.

12. 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) Lower your voice.
(b) Remain silent.
(c) Gaze about the room.
(d) Raise your voice.

13. What does the narrator describe being tossed into a wet sink, causing it to steam in the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) A hot
(b) A hot frying pan.
(c) A hot iron.
(d) A hot knife.

14. How does the narrator describe Old Joe Hunt in Chapter 1?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Wryly affable.
(c) Hateful and mean.
(d) Sardonic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the river that runs upstream lit by, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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

3. What did Veronica tell the narrator that the only purpose of a woman's period was?

4. Where did Veronica's famliy live when she was in college?

5. During what decade did the narrator attend college?

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