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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. When the narrator meets Margaret for lunch to discuss the letter, he says of her, "Margaret doesn't do" what (192)?
(a) "Egotism."
(b) "Conflict."
(c) "Submission."
(d) "Triumphalism."

2. What did Veronica's father die from?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Lung cancer.
(c) Eosophageal cancer.
(d) Prostate cancer.

3. Of the letter, the narrator says in Chapter 2, "And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both" (187). What does the narrator describe feeling?
(a) Regret.
(b) Remorse.
(c) Insolence.
(d) Retribution.

4. 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) Chopin.
(b) Beethhoven.
(c) Bach.
(d) Tchaikovsky.

5. Of his personal solicitor the narrator says that he "is a calm, gaunt man who doesn't mind" what (132)?
(a) "Telling the truth."
(b) "Conflict."
(c) "Silence."
(d) "Confrontation."

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Susan when she married?

2. The narrator says in Chapter 2, "I don't envy Adrian his death, but I do envy him" what (197)?

3. What poet does the narrator describe in Chapter 2 as having not ever run out of animals?

4. Who is the author of the book that Veronica is reading at the brasserie when the narrator meets her in Chapter 2?

5. What does the narrator say he had been "ever since [he] left school" in Chapter 2 (188)?

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