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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after the narrator's marriage to Margaret did they have their first child?
(a) Two years later.
(b) One year later.
(c) Four years later.
(d) Three years later.

2. Who among his group of friends does the narrator say everyone wrote the most to during college and wanted his approval?
(a) Himself.
(b) Colin.
(c) Alex.
(d) Adrian.

3. 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?
(a) Charles II.
(b) Elizabeth I.
(c) Margaret I.
(d) Henry VIII.

4. The narrator notes in Chapter 1, "Some Englishman once said that marriage is a long dull meal with" what "served first" (106)?
(a) "The pudding."
(b) "The salad."
(c) "The cake."
(d) "The soup."

5. In what field did Alex tell Veronica his father was in business in Chapter 1?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Ship-building.
(c) Marine insurance.
(d) Gold trading.

6. Where did Colin, Alex, and the narrator meet for drinks a year after Adrian's death?
(a) The Charing X Hotel.
(b) The Marriott Hotel.
(c) The Metro Hotel.
(d) The Four Seasons Hotel.

7. Phil Dixon related to his class that T. S. Eliot claimed it is all about what, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) The decision to commit suicide or not.
(b) Birth, copulation, and death.
(c) Life and death.
(d) What one leaves as a legacy.

8. Who does the narrator describe as the one who mocked the political system in Chapter 1?
(a) Colin.
(b) Himself.
(c) Alex.
(d) Adrian.

9. What does the narrator describe having for Sunday lunch at Veronica's parents' home in Chapter 1?
(a) Roast turkey.
(b) Roast chicken.
(c) Roast lamb.
(d) Roast beef.

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

11. The narrator says of he and his friends in Chapter 1, "All political systems and social systems appeared to us" to be what (22)?
(a) "Enterprising."
(b) "Violent."
(c) "Corrupt."
(d) "Discouraging."

12. What is the river that runs upstream lit by, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Moonlight.
(b) Headlights.
(c) Candlelight.
(d) Torchbeams.

13. What word from Chapter 1 means unsophisticated and socially awkward?
(a) Gauche.
(b) Gregarious.
(c) Elusive.
(d) Petulant.

14. How old was Adrian when he committed suicide?
(a) 32.
(b) 25.
(c) 19.
(d) 22.

15. What set Adrian Finn apart from the other boys, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) He came from a two-parent home.
(b) He was mentally disabled.
(c) He was new to the school.
(d) He was physically disabled.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attended Adrian's funeral?

2. What did the narrator's mother attribute as the reason that Adrian killed himself?

3. How many siblings does the narrator describe Adrian as having in Chapter 1?

4. What does the narrator describe Old Joe Hunt always wearing in Chapter 1?

5. What does the narrator say he and his friends regarded as "a crypto-fascist plan for repressing our sex drive" (18)?

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