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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Jeremy, looking after children is one way of what?
(a) Looking after yourself.
(b) Securing the future of the world.
(c) Educating them.
(d) Getting love.

2. From what point of view is the novel written?
(a) First person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Omniscient.
(d) Third person.

3. When did Sally let on that she had been abused as a child?
(a) She never did.
(b) When she was about twenty-years-old.
(c) When she turned thirteen.
(d) When she was five-years-old.

4. What does June want to be the centerpiece of the memoir Jeremy is writing about her?
(a) A certain Christmas dinner.
(b) Her marriage to Bernard.
(c) Her divorce.
(d) The black dogs.

5. What is the dream that has haunted June for forty years?
(a) Two dogs fighting with one another.
(b) Dogs chasing down rabbits.
(c) Dogs falling from a gorge.
(d) Two dogs running down a path.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Jeremy persist in his friendship with his in-laws?

3. At what stage was June put into the hospice?

4. What was June's basic view about life?

5. What is happening in Jean and Harper's relationship?

(see the answer key)

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