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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. How long after the narrator's marriage to Margaret did she take up with a fellow who ran a restaurant?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 12 years.

2. To what university did Adrian win a scholarship?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Bristol.
(c) Sussex.
(d) Oxford.

3. What is the river that runs upstream lit by, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Moonlight.
(b) Candlelight.
(c) Torchbeams.
(d) Headlights.

4. Phil Dixon related to his class that T. S. Eliot claimed it is all about what, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) The decision to commit suicide or not.
(b) What one leaves as a legacy.
(c) Life and death.
(d) Birth, copulation, and death.

5. The narrator notes in Chapter 1 that when teasing or calling his friends to seriousness, Adrian would address the narrator by what name?
(a) Ton.
(b) Anthony.
(c) Tony.
(d) Ant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mrs. Ford's first name?

2. What does the narrator switch to drinking while reading the first letter from the envelope from Veronica in Chapter 2?

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)?

4. Who among his group of friends does the narrator say everyone wrote the most to during college and wanted his approval?

5. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "Adrian might attract people, but he never behaved as if he wanted" what?

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