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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: the Meeting, the Letter, the Second Meeting.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 20 years.
(b) Over 40 years.
(c) About 10 years.
(d) Over 35 years.

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

3. What is put under the chicken skin in France to make the dish Chicken in Half-Mourning?
(a) Onions.
(b) Garlic.
(c) Black truffles.
(d) Pastrami.

4. What does the narrator wish Veronica had done with the letter he reads from the envelope she has given him in Chapter 2?
(a) Burned it.
(b) Kept it.
(c) Given it to Mrs. Ford.
(d) Given it to Adrian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Veronica's father's profession when the narrator met her?

2. The narrator states in Chapter 2 that "the brain does not like being" what (210)?

3. What word from Chapter 2 means sulky or bad-tempered?

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

5. In comparing himself to Adrian, the narrator notes in Chapter 2 that Adrian used logic whereas the narrator used what?

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