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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say he does not like in Chapter 2?
(a) Cleaning.
(b) Mess.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Petulance.

2. What does the narrator say he had been "ever since [he] left school" in Chapter 2 (188)?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Average.
(c) Ambitious.
(d) Exemplary.

3. What does Margaret refer to Veronica as when she meets the narrator for lunch to discuss the matter in Chapter 2?
(a) "The Debutante."
(b) "The Debacle."
(c) "The Witch."
(d) "The Fruitcake."

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

5. How old does the narrator say Susie is in Chapter 2?
(a) 34.
(b) 32.
(c) 19.
(d) 29.

6. Of what quality does the narrator say he did not normally believe he had suffered, but had clearly been more afflicted than he realized after his third meeting with Veronica?
(a) Manipulation.
(b) Delusional thinking.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Peacefulness.

7. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that "the brain does not like being" what (210)?
(a) "Repressed."
(b) "Typecast."
(c) "Questioned."
(d) "Controlled."

8. What word from Chapter 2 refers to resembling a satirical poem that often ends with a turn of thought?
(a) Enigmatic.
(b) Lipographic.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Epigrammic.

9. What church does the narrator discover there had never been in Chislehurst in Chapter 2?
(a) St. Michael's.
(b) St. Jude's.
(c) St. Mary's.
(d) St. Andrew's.

10. When the narrator meets Margaret for lunch to discuss the letter, he says of her, "Margaret doesn't do" what (192)?
(a) "Submission."
(b) "Triumphalism."
(c) "Conflict."
(d) "Egotism."

11. How much money did Mrs. Ford leave to the narrator in her will?
(a) 100 pounds.
(b) 500 pounds.
(c) 200 pounds.
(d) 1,000 pounds.

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

13. On what day of the week does the narrator go to the pub in North London to try to find the man with the badges in Chapter 2?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Friday.

14. For how long does Veronica say her father has been dead when she responds to the narrator's query about him in Chapter 2?
(a) About 10 years.
(b) Over 40 years.
(c) Over 35 years.
(d) About 20 years.

15. Of his personal solicitor the narrator says that he "is a calm, gaunt man who doesn't mind" what (132)?
(a) "Conflict."
(b) "Confrontation."
(c) "Telling the truth."
(d) "Silence."

Short Answer Questions

1. What apparently led to Adrian's suicide, as revealed in the end of the novel?

2. What river does the Wobbly Bridge cross?

3. What is the name of the narrator's personal solicitor?

4. The narrator compares character to what in Chapter 2, saying that the difference is that character peaks a little later?

5. What is put under the chicken skin in France to make the dish Chicken in Half-Mourning?

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