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

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) Ted Hughes.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) James Joyce.

3. The narrator points out in Chapter 1 that "what you end up remembering isn't always" what (10)?
(a) "What happened."
(b) "The same as what you have witnessed."
(c) "What others end up remembering."
(d) "The truth."

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

5. The narrator suggests in Chapter 1 that "it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us" what (11)?
(a) "What life is about."
(b) "How to love."
(c) "Regret."
(d) "Time's maleability."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does the narrator describe as making "philosophical objections to the perceived nature of reality" in Chapter 1 (18)?

3. Phil Dixon related to his class that T. S. Eliot claimed it is all about what, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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

5. Where does the narrator say that Phil Dixon came down from in order to teach his English class in Chapter 1?

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