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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 song by the punk rock band led by a friend of the narrator's in Chapter 2?
(a) "Down with Society."
(b) "Tomorrow Never Comes."
(c) "Yesterday."
(d) "Every Day is Sunday."

2. What consisted of Robson's suicide letter (265)?
(a) "Please forgive me."
(b) "Sorry, Mum."
(c) "I can't go on."
(d) "I love you."

3. What word from Chapter 2 refers to meditations or pedantic writings?
(a) Lucubrations.
(b) Elegies.
(c) Articulations.
(d) Desecrations.

4. What is one of the main themes/motifs in The Sense of an Ending?
(a) Murder.
(b) Fatherhood.
(c) Motherhood.
(d) Time.

5. The narrator asserts in Chapter 2 that "there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is true time, is measured in your relationship to" what (230)?
(a) "Relationships."
(b) "Perspective."
(c) "Memory."
(d) "Love."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sang the song "Elusive Butterfly"?

2. What poet is the author alluding to in Chapter 2 when he refers to "the road less travelled" (246)?

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

4. What does the narrator order for dinner on the second night that he goes to the pub in North London in Chapter 2?

5. What poet does the narrator describe in Chapter 2 as having not ever run out of animals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the second document bequeathed to the protagonist? Why does he seek its ownership?

2. How does Veronica describe her parents' deaths in Chapter 2?

3. What does the protagonist learn during his first meeting with Veronica at the Wobbly Bridge?

4. How does the narrator go about dealing with Veronica during their early exchanges on email? Is he successful using this tactic?

5. What does the protagonist discover about Chislehurst when he googles the setting in Chapter 2?

6. How does the protagonist respond to the letter he reads from Veronica's envelope in Chapter 2?

7. Who is T. J. Gunnell and why does the protagonist meet with him in Chapter 2?

8. How is Adrian's suicide compared to Robson's in the novel?

9. What does the protagonist recall about the Severn Bore as he returns from his second meeting with Veronica in Chapter 2?

10. What realization does the protagonist first come to regarding the mentally disabled man in North London?

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