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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When June tells Jeremy that she and Bernard are "obsessed", to what is she referring?
(a) Their sexual life together.
(b) Finding a cure for her.
(c) The need to gain governmental control.
(d) Their children.

2. In what way did June become a spiritual person?
(a) She went to India to meditate.
(b) Through a visit to Fatima.
(c) Through an encounter with two dogs.
(d) She observed the vicious death of her pet dog.

3. In what way did Jeremy identify with Sally?
(a) He felt they were both abandoned children.
(b) They had the same features and coloring.
(c) He knew they were related.
(d) They loved to play the same games.

4. What is it that June dreaded when thinking about marriage?
(a) Having babies.
(b) Shopping for groceries.
(c) Housework.
(d) The honeymoon.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what year is the framed photograph on June Tremaine's locker by her bed in the nursing home?

2. What was Jeremy writing?

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

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

5. To whom does Jeremy dedicate his memoir?

(see the answer key)

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