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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Veronica and After.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Veronica's brother?
(a) Joseph.
(b) James.
(c) Jack.
(d) William.

2. Where did Colin attend college?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Sussex.
(d) Bristol.

3. Of what poet did Phil Dixon say "Of course, we're all wondering what will happen when he runs out of animals" (16)?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

4. Who does the narrator describe as the one who mocked the political system in Chapter 1?
(a) Adrian.
(b) Alex.
(c) Himself.
(d) Colin.

5. Who is described in Chapter 1 as "a cautious know-nothing who lacked the inventiveness of true ignorance" (13)?
(a) Marley.
(b) Augustus.
(c) James.
(d) Marshall.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Robson kill himself?

2. What does the narrator say he and his friends regarded as "a crypto-fascist plan for repressing our sex drive" (18)?

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. What is Veronica's last name?

5. The narrator points out in Chapter 1 that "what you end up remembering isn't always" what (10)?

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