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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening in Jean and Harper's relationship?
(a) They have decided to have an "open marriage".
(b) They are engaged.
(c) They are expecting another child.
(d) They are coming apart.

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

3. What did Jeremy lose due to a road accident?
(a) His niece.
(b) His leg.
(c) His new car.
(d) His parents.

4. 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.

5. How often did Jenny and her brothers see their parents?
(a) Once a week.
(b) Hardly ever.
(c) Every day.
(d) Several times a year.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Jeremy so upset just before leaving for Oxford?

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

3. In what way did June become a spiritual person?

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

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

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