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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 2 means sulky or bad-tempered?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Pragmatic.
(c) Passive.
(d) Petulant.

2. Of what quality does the narrator say he did not normally believe he had suffered, but had clearly been more afflicted than he realized after his third meeting with Veronica?
(a) Manipulation.
(b) Peacefulness.
(c) Delusional thinking.
(d) Vanity.

3. What composer does the narrator say he still plays a lot of in Chapter 2?
(a) Bach.
(b) Beethhoven.
(c) Chopin.
(d) Dvorak.

4. What word from Chapter 2 refers to resembling a satirical poem that often ends with a turn of thought?
(a) Enigmatic.
(b) Epigrammic.
(c) Lipographic.
(d) Articulate.

5. Of his personal solicitor, the narrator says in Chapter 2, "He told me that going to the police and trying to persuade them to lay a charge of theft against a woman of mature years who had recently lost her mother would, in his view, be" what (132-133)?
(a) "A terrible idea."
(b) "Permissable."
(c) "Foolish."
(d) "Damning."

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator asserts in Chapter 2 that "it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a" what (119)?

2. The narrator says in Chapter 2 that "all the time [he] was going out with Veronica, [he] found her many things--alluring, mysterious, disapproving--but never" what (260)?

3. The narrator states in Chapter 2, "I viewed my time with Veronica as" what (131)?

4. When the narrator had said to Joe Hunt that "history was the lies of the victors," he had replied by saying, "As long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of" whom (230)?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What exchange takes place between the protagonist and Veronica during their second meeting at the brasserie in Chapter 2?

2. What does the protagonist discover about Chislehurst when he googles the setting in Chapter 2?

3. What does the protagonist recall about the Severn Bore as he returns from his second meeting with Veronica in Chapter 2?

4. What are the two types of women that the protagonist recalls Margaret discussing with him in Chapter 2? Which characters fall into these categories?

5. How does the protagonist express his remorse to Veronica regarding the letter in Chapter 2? How does she respond?

6. Why does the protagonist begin frequenting a pub and store in North London in Chapter 2?

7. Who is T. J. Gunnell and why does the protagonist meet with him in Chapter 2?

8. How does Veronica describe her parents' deaths in Chapter 2?

9. How does the protagonist describe his relationship with Susie in Chapter 2?

10. Who has possession of the second document bequeathed to the protagonist from Mrs. Ford? Why?

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