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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. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he and his friends assured one another that the imagination's first duty was to be what?
(a) Transgressive.
(b) Restrained.
(c) Implosive.
(d) Explorative.

2. By whom was Adrian raised?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His aunt.

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. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read" whom (23)?
(a) "Einstein and Heidegger."
(b) "Joyce and Beckett."
(c) "Frost and Poe."
(d) "Camus and Nietzsche."

5. Who did the narrator's father blame when he found the narrator reading The Communist Manifesto?
(a) Jack.
(b) Alex.
(c) Colin.
(d) Adrian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in Chapter 1 means behaving in an obsequious way to gain advantage?

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

3. How did Robson kill himself?

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. How does the narrator describe Old Joe Hunt in Chapter 1?

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