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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As she lay ill in bed, who do we learn June is jealous of as regards Bernard?
(a) The nurses who chat with him.
(b) Any woman he meets.
(c) His housekeeper.
(d) His secretary.

2. What does Bernard look like?
(a) He is bald with a goatee.
(b) He is large with a generous face.
(c) He is obese and bald.
(d) He is scrawny and plain looking.

3. At what stage was June put into the hospice?
(a) Two weeks before she died.
(b) She never entered a hospice.
(c) When she was terminal.
(d) Seven years before she died.

4. Bernard leaves the grave site to walk toward a yew tree in the cemetery. What does he do there?
(a) Watches the sunset.
(b) Has a cigarette.
(c) Counts the headstones.
(d) Cries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Toby Langley spend some of his childhood?

2. What did Jean think of Jeremy's friend, Toby?

3. According to Jeremy, looking after children is one way of what?

4. What did Jeremy lose due to a road accident?

5. From what point of view is the novel written?

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