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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What symbol do some of the teenage boys who harass Bernard have on their selves?
(a) Skull and crossbones.
(b) Swastikas.
(c) Peace signs.
(d) Sickle and hammers.

2. In Part 1, what is it that Jeremy is thinking as he stares at June's photograph as a young newlywed?
(a) How much she had changed.
(b) That she looks happier now than she did then.
(c) That she looks better now than she did then.
(d) How beautiful she still was.

3. In Part Two when Bernard questions Jeremy about what June spoke of when they discussed the memoir, what does he ask?
(a) How she felt about dying alone.
(b) If she had turned back to Communism in the end.
(c) If she spoke about their lives in a very personal way.
(d) Whether religion was something she really believed in.

4. What is it about Jeremy that reminds June of Bernard?
(a) His sense of humor.
(b) His warmth and kindness.
(c) His dryness and distance.
(d) His looks.

5. What did Harper do for a living?
(a) He worked in a bank.
(b) He was a bouncer at a bar.
(c) He was a part-time teaher.
(d) He was a security guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bernard's profession?

2. As she lay ill in bed, who do we learn June is jealous of as regards Bernard?

3. What was Bernard's attitude towards the insect and, as he understands now, most things and June?

4. Why does Bernard stare at girls on the street?

5. What did June discover about herself the morning after the dolmen?

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