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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: High School and Robson's Suicide.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What musical instrument did Adrian play, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Oboe.
(b) Clarinet.
(c) Flute.
(d) Saxophone.

2. 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) Ted Hughes.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) James Joyce.

3. Where does the narrator say that Phil Dixon came down from in order to teach his English class in Chapter 1?
(a) Barbury.
(b) Bristol.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Cambridge.

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

5. What word in Chapter 1 means behaving in an obsequious way to gain advantage?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Petulant.
(c) Sycophantic.
(d) Sarcastic.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator notes in Chapter 1 that when teasing or calling his friends to seriousness, Adrian would address the narrator by what name?

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

3. Phil Dixon once compared a Shakespearean to what actor?

4. 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?

5. Which of his friends does the narrator describe as denouncing his family in Chapter 1?

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