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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How did June get her doctor on her side and change the staff's attitude toward her?
(a) She told them they would all be in her book.
(b) She let her intelligence and thoughtfulness be known.
(c) Jeremy brought Swiss chocolates to eveyone quite often.
(d) She bribed them with money.

5. What kind of religious service is performed at June's burial?
(a) Buddhist.
(b) None.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Anglican.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was June living when Jeremy was visiting her and taking notes in Part One?

2. What was it about the photograph of June and Bernard that Jeremy kept looking at that was so appealing to him?

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

4. What does June want to be the centerpiece of the memoir Jeremy is writing about her?

5. What completely overshadowed Jeremy and Jenny's life until their first child was born?

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