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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. By what means has the narrator opted for his remains to be disposed after his death?
(a) By shipping him to sea.
(b) By bonfire.
(c) By cremation.
(d) By burial.

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

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

4. What poet does the narrator describe in Chapter 2 as having not ever run out of animals?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Ted Hughes.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In asking if characters change over time, the narrator states in Chapter 2, "Our attitudes and opinions change; we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like" what (194-195)?

2. In the beginning of Chapter 2, the narrator describes a line that Adrian used to quote. "History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of" what (113)?

3. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the action of clearing blame of someone?

4. Which of the "two sorts of women" does the narrator assert Margaret to be in Chapter 2 (124)?

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

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