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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: the Third Meeting, Adrian Ford, and the Truth.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator asserts in Chapter 2 that "there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is true time, is measured in your relationship to" what (230)?
(a) "Love."
(b) "Perspective."
(c) "Memory."
(d) "Relationships."

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

4. The author says in Chapter 2 that "there's no fool like" what (246)?
(a) "An old fool."
(b) "A fool headed to slaughter."
(c) "A fool in love."
(d) "A young fool."

5. What composer does the narrator say "has gone the way of those geniuses who fascinate in youth, retain a residual power in middle age, but later seem, if not embarrassing, somehow less relevant" in Chapter 2 (115)?
(a) Tchaikovsky.
(b) Bach.
(c) Chopin.
(d) Beethhoven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Veronica tell the narrator she cannot give him Adrian's diary when they meet at the Wobbly Bridge in Chapter 2?

2. What color eyes does the narrator describe Veronica having in Chapter 1?

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

4. What does the narrator say he does not like in Chapter 2?

5. What does the narrator describe as Veronica's "comfort book" in Chapter 1 (49)?

(see the answer key)

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