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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. The narrator questions in Chapter 1 whether there is "anything more plausible than" what (11)?
(a) "A raised voice."
(b) "A memory."
(c) "A philosophical query."
(d) "A second hand."

2. What monarch's reign did Old Joe Hunt ask his students about on the third day of class, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Margaret I.
(b) Elizabeth I.
(c) Charles II.
(d) Henry VIII.

3. The narrator notes in Chapter 1, "I'd read somewhere that if you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you" do what (64)?
(a) Remain silent.
(b) Lower your voice.
(c) Raise your voice.
(d) Gaze about the room.

4. What are Veronica's two middle names?
(a) Mary Anderson.
(b) Mary Elizabeth.
(c) Anne Elizabeth.
(d) Sarah Michelle.

5. What set Adrian Finn apart from the other boys, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) He came from a two-parent home.
(b) He was mentally disabled.
(c) He was new to the school.
(d) He was physically disabled.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator describe as the one who mocked the political system in Chapter 1?

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

3. What does the narrator describe Old Joe Hunt always wearing in Chapter 1?

4. The narrator suggests in Chapter 1 that "it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us" what (11)?

5. Where did Veronica depart to when she left after visiting the narrator and his friends in London in Chapter 1?

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