1. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read" whom (23)?
(a) "Frost and Poe."
(b) "Einstein and Heidegger."
(c) "Joyce and Beckett."
(d) "Camus and Nietzsche."

2. How tall does the narrator describe Veronica as in Chapter 1?
(a) 5'5".
(b) 5'9".
(c) 6'.
(d) 5'2".

3. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "Adrian might attract people, but he never behaved as if he wanted" what?
(a) "Adoration."
(b) "Attention."
(c) "Disciples."
(d) "Critics."

4. How does the narrator say he and his friends wore their watches in Chapter 1?
(a) On their left wrists.
(b) With the face on the inside of the wrist.
(c) With the clock facing upside down.
(d) On their right wrists.

5. What composer does the narrator say "has gone the way of those geniuses who fascinate in youth, retain a residual power in middle age, but later seem, if not embarrassing, somehow less relevant" in Chapter 2 (115)?
(a) Tchaikovsky.
(b) Beethhoven.
(c) Bach.
(d) Chopin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of his personal solicitor, the narrator says in Chapter 2, "He told me that going to the police and trying to persuade them to lay a charge of theft against a woman of mature years who had recently lost her mother would, in his view, be" what (132-133)?

2. What composer does the narrator say he still plays a lot of in Chapter 2?

3. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the action of clearing blame of someone?

4. When going to visit Veronica's parents, the narrator worried that his suitcase was so big it make him look like what?

5. Who wrote to the narrator to inform him of Adrian's suicide?

(see the answer key)

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