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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was June's basic view about life?
(a) God had no hand in it.
(b) It had a purpose.
(c) Life was random.
(d) It was best not to examine it.

3. What did Jeremy think of his friends' need to disassociate themselves from their parents?
(a) They were in a downward social spiral.
(b) They intended to become criminals.
(c) They were heading for a nervous breakdown.
(d) They would never make anything of themselves.

4. What was one of the reasons Jeremy did not pursue girls at the age of seventeen?
(a) He felt he was not good looking enough.
(b) He was busy with two jobs.
(c) He was not attracted to them.
(d) It would distract him from his school work.

5. Who did Jeremy tend to become friendly with?
(a) Parents of people his age.
(b) No one.
(c) Little girls of three to five-years-old.
(d) Other college students.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way were June and Bernard alike in the beginning of their relationship?

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

3. What did Harper end up doing by the end of the summer of Jeremy's eighteenth birthday?

4. When Jeremy spoke with Bernard, how did he feel about June?

5. Where did Jenny's parents live when Jeremy first met them?

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