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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the two-disc boxed set by Donovan that the narrator describes having owned in college in Chapter 1?
(a) Cosmic Wheels.
(b) What's Bin Di and What's Bin Hid.
(c) A Gift from a Flower to a Garden.
(d) Barbabajagal.

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

3. The narrator says of he and his friends in Chapter 1, "All political systems and social systems appeared to us" to be what (22)?
(a) "Enterprising."
(b) "Violent."
(c) "Discouraging."
(d) "Corrupt."

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

5. At whose jokes does the narrator say Veronica laughed at more easily than his own when she met his friends in Chapter 1?
(a) Alex's.
(b) James's.
(c) Colin's.
(d) Adrian's.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read" whom (23)?

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

3. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he and his friends assured one another that the imagination's first duty was to be what?

4. To what university did Adrian win a scholarship?

5. Which of his friends does the narrator describe as denouncing his family in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to the protagonist's divorce?

2. How is the narrative related in The Sense of an Ending? From whose perspective is the story told? Why?

3. Why does the protagonist feel that Veronica may be partly to blame for Adrian's suicide?

4. What does the letter from Adrian say regarding Veronica in Chapter 1?

5. What is the protagonist's response to Adrian's letter regarding Veronica in Chapter 1?

6. What do the protagonist and Alex conclude regarding Adrian's suicide?

7. How does the dynamic of the narrator's group of friend's change with the introduction of Adrian?

8. How does the narrator describe the meeting with his friends one year after Adrian's suicide?

9. In the present tense narrative, what are the protagonist's circumstances as described in the conclusion of Chapter 1?

10. Where do the protagonist and his friends go to college after high school?

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