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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that Jeremy's young son, Alexander, keeps asking on the car ride to the cemetery?
(a) "When is she coming back?"
(b) "Why did Grandma die?"
(c) "Are we there yet?"
(d) "WIll Grandpa die too?"

2. Why did Jeremy persist in his friendship with his in-laws?
(a) Due to a lifetime habit of befriending parental figures.
(b) They were constantly at his home.
(c) He loved them.
(d) They were so alike in all ways.

3. During June's generation, what was the worst possible thing that could happen to a girl?
(a) Getting a divorce.
(b) Not being married by the age of 25.
(c) Becoming a nun.
(d) Being pregnant outside of marriage.

4. What did Jeremy continue to do after leaving North Oxford?
(a) Writing to Harper.
(b) Studying.
(c) Switching girlfriends.
(d) Leaving places and people.

5. When Jeremy spoke with Bernard, how did he feel about June?
(a) He knew June was outlandishlly wrong about the world.
(b) He was glad he knew her.
(c) He felt June was right in her world beliefs.
(d) He felt sorry for her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was it about the photograph of June and Bernard that Jeremy kept looking at that was so appealing to him?

2. What is inferred in the last sentence of the Preface?

3. In the Preface, what liberty does Jeremy report that he takes in his book?

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

5. When did Sally let on that she had been abused as a child?

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