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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does QED stand for?
(a) Quarter educational denouement.
(b) Query expecting delivery.
(c) Quod erat demonstrandum.
(d) Quit educating delinquents.

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

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

4. Why did Adrian write to the narrator during his senior year of college?
(a) To ask him to come on vacation wih him.
(b) To tell him he was committing suicide.
(c) To ask for permission to date Veronica.
(d) To tell him he was quitting school.

5. The narrator questions in Chapter 1 whether there is "anything more plausible than" what (11)?
(a) "A philosophical query."
(b) "A memory."
(c) "A raised voice."
(d) "A second hand."

6. Who does the narrator describe as making "philosophical objections to the perceived nature of reality" in Chapter 1 (18)?
(a) Himself.
(b) Adrian.
(c) Alex.
(d) Colin.

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

8. Phil Dixon related to his class that T. S. Eliot claimed it is all about what, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Birth, copulation, and death.
(b) Life and death.
(c) The decision to commit suicide or not.
(d) What one leaves as a legacy.

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

10. Who attended Adrian's funeral?
(a) Tony, Veronica, and Colin.
(b) Only his family.
(c) Alex, Colin, and Tony.
(d) Alex, Colin, and Jack.

11. 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) "Potatoes."
(c) "Turnips."
(d) "Dirt."

12. Where did Veronica's famliy live when she was in college?
(a) Kent.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Sutton.
(d) The West End.

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

14. Who is described in Chapter 1 as "a cautious know-nothing who lacked the inventiveness of true ignorance" (13)?
(a) Marley.
(b) Augustus.
(c) Marshall.
(d) James.

15. Where did the narrator go to meet his friend to discuss Adrian's suicide after he arrived home?
(a) The Charing X Hotel.
(b) The Four Seasons Hotel.
(c) The Marriott Hotel.
(d) The Windsor Hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator notes in Chapter 1 that when teasing or calling his friends to seriousness, Adrian would address the narrator by what name?

2. What does the narrator say he does now at the local hospital in the conclusion of Chapter 1?

3. What color eyes does the narrator describe Veronica having in Chapter 1?

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

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

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